In light of this slow Cornell-related-news summer day, check out this fabulous Fox News article on Alvin Greene, the Democratic primary winner in the South Carolina Senate Primary.
Some of my favorite sentences from the article:
– “As far as we know he has done no campaigning,” state party spokesperson Keiana Page said. “We have no idea how he won.”
– But as for how he would have voted on TARP, or the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Greene was undecided. “TARP? What’s that?” he asked.
– “I think how we’re going about, what we’re doing is OK, I think … Look, I have someone beeping on the other line, I have to move on … I’m exhausted,” he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/10/AR2010061002499_2.html?sid=ST2010061002959
– The news report says he has not entered a plea or been indicted in connection with the obscenity charge. Greene asks: “I have not been indicted? Indicted? What does that mean?” His brother explains that a charge and an indictment are different things. He nods.
– A campaign flier lies on the table. “Satin green,” he says proudly. “It’s pretty. I like that.” Greene won’t say who printed it or where it was distributed. He cautions that it’s his only copy and should be handled with care. Asked how many fliers were printed, he says “hundreds,” then pauses.
“Maybe thousands. Hundreds. Maybe a hundred. I don’t know exactly.”