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Mississippi Tea Party leader Mark Mayfield dead in apparent suicide
Rueters ^ | 6/27/14 | Rueters

Posted on 06/27/2014 9:50:05 AM PDT by Nachum

(Reuters) - A prominent leader of the Mississippi Tea Party who was arrested in connection with photos posted online of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran's bedridden wife died on Friday of an apparent suicide, the man’s lawyer said.

Mark Mayfield, 58, was vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party and a Central Mississippi Tea Party chairperson, according to those organizations' websites.

"This is a terrible tragedy that shouldn’t have happened," Mayfield's lawyer John Reeves told Reuters.

Mayfield was one of three men accused last month of conspiring with a blogger who was charged with taking photos of Cochran's bedridden wife in her nursing home for use in a political video against the incumbent.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: cochran; cochranwife; mayfield; mcdaniel; miss; mississippi; msprimary; party; tea; teaparty
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1 posted on 06/27/2014 9:50:05 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 06/27/2014 9:50:53 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Haven’t heard a statement of condolence from Boss Hogg yet. He must be laying low.


3 posted on 06/27/2014 9:51:29 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Nachum

Mississippicide.


4 posted on 06/27/2014 9:52:07 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Nachum

Suicide. By two bullets to the back of the head.


5 posted on 06/27/2014 9:54:25 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Timber Rattler; Nachum

MS Dead Pool.


6 posted on 06/27/2014 9:55:15 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Nachum

The GOPe is putting out a message to TEA Party supporters...


7 posted on 06/27/2014 9:55:57 AM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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To: Nachum

Mississippi Burning II


8 posted on 06/27/2014 9:58:37 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Nachum

Vince Fosterized.


9 posted on 06/27/2014 9:59:29 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Nachum

So was this guy actually a tea party leader or is that just what the media is calling him? The BS with Cochran’s wife doesn’t sound like something any tea partiers would do.


10 posted on 06/27/2014 9:59:52 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: uncitizen
I'm wondering about those three. The "Tea Party" has a huge problem with people wearing that label yet being opposed to almost everything constitutional conservatives stand for. Who were they taking those pictures for, anyway? If they were on their own, those three were totally clueless about what constitutional conservatives want. If they were working for Cochran, that's equally despicable.

Bottom line: they stopped representing the "tea party" when they took those pictures.

11 posted on 06/27/2014 9:59:54 AM PDT by grania
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To: Nachum

Multiple articles but not much info at this time:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=mark+mayfield&tbm=nws


12 posted on 06/27/2014 10:04:47 AM PDT by deport
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To: cripplecreek; grania

IIRC, the blogger was actually linked to Cochran in other words, he paid somebody to pose as a McDaniel supporter and then take the pics of his own wife.


13 posted on 06/27/2014 10:10:24 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: deport

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/06/27/mark-mayfield-dead/11456769/

That’s the local paper link. Not much info as to the circumstances.

Better question: Was he working to prove fraud in the election? Was he preparing to file a case to challenge the results?

Seems odd to say the least.


14 posted on 06/27/2014 10:12:13 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Nachum

This hit the news to smear McDainels. What this guy did was despicable and pointless, but losing this right now shows that Cochran Establishment people are totally bankrupt morally.


15 posted on 06/27/2014 10:17:06 AM PDT by ZULU (Impeach Obama NOW.)
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To: Nachum

Mississippi becoming the new Arkansas —


16 posted on 06/27/2014 10:19:23 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: TigerClaws
Yep odd. He was one of those charged in Cochran's wife photo debacle. Speculation
about that and suicide. Who knows at this point and we may not know if he didn't leave
a note or some other indication.
17 posted on 06/27/2014 10:20:45 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Who was this guy?


18 posted on 06/27/2014 10:24:16 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Nachum

Tea’d off....


19 posted on 06/27/2014 10:31:44 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't lfive through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: grania

He probably was a Cochran man posing as A Tea Partier whose usefulness to Cochran was over. He learned several lessons the hard way, not the least is that dead men tell no tales.


20 posted on 06/27/2014 10:33:33 AM PDT by sport
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