Surprise SC Senate candidate, after weeks of mystery and odd interviews, finally campaigns

Surprise SC Senate candidate campaigning _ finally

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s surprising U.S. Senate candidate, Alvin Greene, is finally campaigning.

Greene is scheduled to speak 4 p.m. Sunday at the monthly meeting of the local NAACP branch in his hometown of Manning.

It appears to be the Democrat’s first campaign appearance.

Greene says he campaigned before his shocking June 8 primary win, when the unemployed Army veteran beat a longtime politician with the full backing of the Democratic party. But he won’t say where he spoke.

Greene has talked to reporters, getting lots of attention for his idea to jump-start South Carolina’s economy by making Alvin Greene action figures.

Interest in Greene’s appearance has grown so much that the NAACP has moved the meeting from a church to the local junior high gymnasium.