COLUMBIA, S.C. – In his first campaign appearance, South Carolina's surprising U.S. Senate candidate, Alvin Greene, received applause Sunday with his exhortations to improve education and fight unemployment.
Greene started his speech at the monthly meeting of the local NAACP branch in his hometown of Manning by slowly rattling off national job loss statistics and South Carolina's dismal rankings in standardized tests.
Organizers have moved the location of the meeting twice — first to a larger church, then the local junior high school as the number of people expected to come swelled.
"We have more unemployed now in South Carolina than any other time in our state's history," he said.
He suggested infrastructure projects put on hold after 9/11 could be restarted, such as an interstate from Michigan to the South Carolina coast.
"Lets get South Carolina and America back to work and let's move South Carolina forward," he said.
The speech appears to be the Democrat's first campaign appearance.
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