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That candidates have to pay and this is a guy, as you mengtione at the top of the segment, hes unemployed. he even has a lawyer provided to him by the state as hes fighting these felony obsession charges. so if hes, you know, got length in his wallet, how is he able to pay that filing fee of $10,000? that should be looked into. i guess for us to continue with the whole chauncey gardner analo analogy, we would have to find people who thought he was brilliant, right? >> well, yeah. you know, the g...

You how it happened. i went on my lunch break and went into the ballot booth and his name was the first name and i clicked it. end of story and then he found out afterwards the felony indictment that mr. greene is trying to fight on obscenity charges and other things about the guy that no one knew. im sorry to laugh, but, i mean, this guy, we havent seen anyone like this in politics in a very long time. sort of like chauncey gardner from being there. >> yes. >> totally, hes totally the chauncey ...

Is this final? >> i think it is. in greenes defense, if he did win, he would be a strong candidate for time magazine man of the year. >> yes. >> i think it is largely done. there are two separate issues. one is you cannot essentially reject a democratic election because the outcome is so bizarre. there has to be some credible allegation of fraud or misconduct or error. there were none as far as we could tell. so you have to live with the result. you cant reverse-engineer or work backward from a ...

>> well, i think it is. first of all, in greenes defense if he he did win he would be a strong candidate for "time" magazine man of the year. >> yes. >> i think it is largely done. theres two separate issues here. one is you cannot essentially reject a democratic election because the outcome is so bizarre. there has to be some kind of credible or substantiated allegation of fraud or misconduct or error, and there were none as far as we could tell. so you just have to live with the result. you ca...

Work backward from a strange outcome. that said, i think its worthwhile some investigation look at the voting software be conducted irrespective of greenes candidacy. >> what about the investigation into the filing fee and fec filings he didnt make? what happens to those? >> i think the fec will process the complaint. the fec notoriously takes forever. in 08 there were sanctions. usually what happens is an fec complaint is filed, they go through it and after the election there are fines or sanct...

Establishment candidate had money, didnt spend it. didnt have a 4% favorable rating, an 18% unfavorable. 4-1 negative among democrats. he was doing better among republicans and the problem is is that his name is popular in a few counties and green is popular everywhere and particularly upstate so it was -- this has happened before. this is not a surprise. everyone acted like -- i dont know how he got his $10,000 filing fee. but how he won is pretty clear. people are just staying home, screw them...

Hes an unemployed military veteran. he paid a $10,400 filing fee in march, and there are questions about how he got that money, given that he was arrested in november and had himself declared indigent and a so that he was able to get a public defender to help him with his felony ob senenity charge and there are lots of questions about how you are indigent after a november charge and able to pay a $10,000 filing fee in march. >> all right. so as they dig deeper on that and often times the way you...

This is a fairly safe senate seat for them, so im just not sure who it is thats behind this. we havent been able to find anyone that has, obviously, admitted to this and greene himself has told us that hes paid this filing fee with his own money. >> yeah. good that you mentioned that. i mean, republican jim demint pretty much has this seat sealed up which is probably why you guys really didnt cover this primary race on the democratic side, im assuming. >> correct. >> so vic rawl, the guy that th...

Is. >> now to south carolina. a state lawmaker, a republican named c.h.i.p. limehouse has asked state police to investigate how mr. greene, who, as we know, was unemployed and in the position as of late last year to need a public defender after this felony charge paid the $10,000 filing fee. is the issue being missed intentionally or unintentionally by republicans like mr. graham and joe wilson, that this isnt about the democrats not liking the outcome of an election or not liking alvin greene. ...

Is. >> now to south carolina. a state lawmaker, a republican named chip limehouse has asked state police to investigate how mr. greene, who, as we know, was unemployed and in the position as of late last year to need a public defender after this felony charge paid the $10,000 filing fee. is the issue being missed intentionally or unintentionally by republicans like mr. graham and joe wilson, that this isnt about the democrats not liking the outcome of an election or not liking alvin greene? >> k...