Alvin Greene discusses candidacy

>>> republican senator jim demint from south carolina is the most extreme member of the u.s. senate . just last week he told an audience the same thing he said when he first ran for senate in 2004 , that unmarried women and gay men should not be allowed to be public school teachers.

>> do you also still believe that, that a single mom should not be teaching in south carolina schools?

>> i believe that's a local school board issue.

>> are you apologizing to gay teachers or single mom teachers.

>> i'm apologizing for talking about a local school board issue.

>> demint is up for re-election and the man opposing him may be the least likely candidate to win this november. alvin greene shocked the democratic party when he won the primary over long time democratic activist with 69% of the vote even though green never had one campaign event. he's unemployed, lives with his parents and has now been indicted on felony charges for showing pornography to a south carolina college student, something his lawyer called flirting. the state of south carolina even investigated where he got the $10,000 filing fee and found that, indeed, it came from money he saved after he left the air force as he has said. joining me now the democratic nominee from senate from south carolina alvin greene . alvin greene , thanks for joining us tonight.

>> good evening.

>> there's a first question that all senate candidates have to answer this year. and that is, of course, are you a witch?

>> no, first i want to remind everyone that demint started the recession.

>> there you go, you're on your talking points . you're not a witch and demint started the recession. your nickname is high school was turtle. where did that come from and does that tell us anything about how this race might end up?

>> demint started the recession, demint is responsible for the recession. i'm the best candidate that defines where we're at right now in this country.

>> now, i know people tell you, no matter what the question is, just do your talking points and all that sort of stuff. but seriously, alvin , your nickname, turtle, where did that come from?

>> no. like i said, demint started the recession, and i'm the best candidate that defines where we're at in this country. i'm united states air force and united states army veteran. the concentrations on those efforts. an unemployed military veteran currently. this country is losing 10000,000 jobs a month and demint is responsible for the recession. demint started the recession.

>> okay. let's go to some demint's statements, do you think single teachers should be school teachers in south carolina ?

>> yes, that's their private life . as long as their private life doesn't interfere with the job, that's fine. what they do in their private life , as long as it doesn't have any affect on how they do their job. that's fine. it's just poor positions from demint that has gotten us into this recession. we just have to keep that in mind, demint started the recession.

>> how did demint personally start the recession?

>> irresponsible spending, record cuts to education. the supporting the bush tax plan, mismanagement of federal resources. we can look at the wars in the mideast and how the wars are managed in iraq and afghanistan. so we just see this irresponsible spending and this mismanagement of government resources, federal government resources. mismanagement of resources. it's destroyed this country. we see that he's responsible for it. that's a fact. demint started the recession, he's responsible for the recession, and it doesn't make any sense sending somebody back to washington that's messing things up every day.

>> well, i've got to tell you. i don't think jim demint personally started the recession but i do think alvin greene , still better than jim demint . alvin greene , democratic candidate for south carolina , thanks for joining us tonight.

>> he started it in his first term. thank you. do the research.

>> i'll do the research right after the show, find out who started the recession.

>> all right.

>> thank you very much, alvin greene .