Cochran Campaign Puts Whistle-blowing Reverend Fielder’s Life in Danger by Publishing Home Address

Decision by Cochran campaign to publish Rev Fielder's
home address is disgusting. #mssen

I can’t print what I want to here. Our rules against excessive profanity prohibit it. Cochran’s people have been attacking Reverend Fielder every since the story broke that alleges Cochran’s staff paid the Reverend to pay blacks to vote for Cochran.

Cochran’s people have attacked Reverend Fielder, calling him untrustworthy and dishonest, yet the admit they hired him to “get out the vote“!

By publishing the home address of Reverend Fielder, Thad Cochran’s campaign staff has put this man’s life in danger. This is the kind of sleaze-ball [expletive] we expect from democrats and union thugs, NOT Republicans.

I know Reverend Fielder has admitted his guilt. He may or may not face criminal charges. That said, he also came forward and broke the story wide open. I think everyone is entitled to feel how they are going to feel about this man, but I think we can all agree here, he doesn’t deserve to have his life put in danger by having his address published where any nut bag with a grudge to settle can attack him.

Folks this is what evil looks like. Again, this is the sort of thing we expect from democrats. Many have been saying the Republican Establishment is no better than the democrats. It’s becoming hard to argue against them.

Cochran’s people have attacked Reverend Fielder, calling him untrustworthy and dishonest, yet the admit they hired him to “get out the vote“!

Cochran's campaign suborned wholesale violation of Mississippi Code 23-15-575, which states, "No person shall be eligible to participate in any primary election unless he intends to support the nominations made in which he participates.” It may be unenforceable against any one individual, but it's still the law.

Reverend Fielder was apparently one of a number of people they hired to induce Democrat voters illegally to cast primary votes for Cochran while intending to vote for Cochran's Democrat opponent in November.

But the reason we've heard of Fielder in the first place is that he apparently snookered a couple of eminently gullible "journalists" by falsely confessing to have been a conduit to buy votes at $15 apiece. If those incriminating text messages allegedly from Saleem Baird are real, why haven't we heard further? If Baird was paying Fielder to buy votes, he must have been doing the same with a plenty of other "campaign workers". It should have blown wide open by now. But it hasn't.

Moreover, the only place we've seen those text messages is in the video portion of that interview with Fielder, which was made by Chuck Johnson's partner, Joel S. Gilbert, who is one talented video maker. Just watch Atlanta attorney Loren Collins demonstrate Joel's skill.

At this point, it would seem as if McDaniel has two main means of legal attack:

Show that Cochran deliberately encouraged violation of Mississippi Code 23-15-575.
Show that a sufficient number runoff voters had also voted in the Democrat primary.

Of course, if vote-buying by Cochran's campaign could be proved, that would be peachy. But I doubt it.

I, for one, do NOT doubt that there was payment for votes.

If the Fielder story is true, there should be plentiful evidence, both with respect to Fielder and his supposed correspondent Saleem Baird, along with with umpteen other deployed Fielders. Not seeing it, not that it didn't happen. But it's up to McDaniel operatives to produce and prove!

The evidence that Fielder is a crock is much more believable.

That leaves us with what we already know: That the Cochran campaign turned out Democrat voters in knowing violation of Mississippi election law to vote in a Republican runoff!

There would be no other reason for the blacks to turn out in masses to vote for Thad otherwise.

Maybe Cochran's guys (of whom Fielder was among the lower-performing, underpaid, and pissed off) motivated them with tales of McDaniel's supposed racism? That much is obvious.

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