In his first campaign appearance, South Carolina's surprising U.S. Senate candidate received applause with his exhortations to improve education and fight unemployment.
Alvin Greene _ an unemployed Army veteran who beat a longtime politician with the full backing of the Democratic party _ spoke Sunday at the monthly meeting of the local NAACP branch in his hometown of Manning.
He deliberately rattling off national job loss statistics and South Carolina's dismal rankings in standardized tests.
He suggested infrastructure projects put on hold after 9/11 could be restarted, such as an interstate from Michigan to the South Carolina coast.
He said, "Lets get South Carolina and America back to work and let's move South Carolina forward."
The speech appears to be the Democrat's first campaign appearance.
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