Who Is Alvin Greene?
Alvin Greene, the Being There-esque mystery man who won the Democratic primary in South Carolina by a fairly crushing margin, continues to provide one of the weirdest and most riveting political stories of the year. Details of who he is, whence he came and who he showed porn to have been coming out in dribs and drabs. But now, courtesy of the Columbia, S.C., Free Times, we have the fullest account yet of Greene’s life and times. 1. On Green’s home town: “Manning is like many small South Carolina towns where you know your neighbor and your neighbor’s neighbor. But not many in Manning knew Alvin Greene. Some who did say he was a strange kid growing up, a quiet kid, a loner. They talk about him the way a neighbor might describe a killer or the man who later becomes president. It’s always, of course, the quiet ones.” 2. On where he may have gotten his taste for politics: Alvin’s father, James Greene, retired from the Clemson Extension Program where he used to teach. In his time, he was a b
