Posted on 06/30/2014 6:34:36 PM PDT by Viennacon
Edited on 06/30/2014 6:57:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A black reverend stiffed by the Cochran campaign has exposed an alleged criminal conspiracy by Cochran staffers to commit massive voter fraud ahead of Tuesday's controversial U.S. Senate Republican runoff election in Mississippi.
Reverend Stevie Fielder, associate pastor at historic First Union Missionary Baptist Church and former official at Meridian's redevelopment agency, says he delivered "hundreds or even thousands," of blacks to the polls after being offer money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a racist. "They [the Cochran campaign] told me to offer blacks fifteen dollars each and to vote for Thad."
It is illegal under several provisions of Mississippi law and federal law for campaign officials to bribe voters with cash and punishable up to five years in jail. (MS Code 97-13-1; MS Code 97-13-3 (2013) (Federal Code 18 U.S.C. 597, U.S.C. 1973i(c)) Voter fraud schemes are not unusual for Mississippi. In 1999 Mississippi's attorney general reported massive voter fraud allegations throughout the Palmetto state. In 2011, a Mississippi NAACP leader was sent to prison for voter fraud, according to the Daily Caller.
It would seem that laws were broken here, too. At the direction of the Cochran campaign, Reverend Fielder went "door to door, different places, mostly impoverished neighborhoods, to the housing authorities and stuff like that," telling fellow blacks that McDaniel was a racist and promising them $15 per vote. "They sold me on the fact that he was a racist and that the right thing to do was to keep him out of office," Fielder says.
Text messages released to Got News and a recorded interview with Reverend Fielder confirmed that Saleem Baird, a staffer with the Cochran campaign and current legislative aide to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, and Cochran campaign manager, Kirk Sims, were involved in a $15 per vote cash bribery scheme to target members of the black community.
"They said they needed black votes," said the Reverend Fielder on the phone. He says Baird told him to put "give the fifteen dollars in each envelope to people as they go in and vote. You know, not right outside of the polling place but he would actually recruit people with the $15 dollars and they would go in and vote." Fielder said he received thousands of dollars in envelopes from Baird and distributed them accordingly. Fielder also says he went to the campaign office on another occasion to pick up $300 in cash and was among a room full of people who were doing the same thing he was.
Excerpt, read more at gotnews.com
A tree fell in the woods. I am not sure if this will make a sound. Busted? We’ll see.
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Thad made the mistake. It’s one thing to buy a hooker. It’s another to buy the a hooker that’s a mistress to your political enemy.
Did he expect loyalty?
Did he expect them to keep it a secret?
He teed up a scandal and delivered it right to his opposition in November all so he could defeat his opposition in June. Even if he did win he’s just justified a Democratic controlled senate expelling him for fraud.
Corruption aside, is this mad simply too dumb/senile to be involved in politics on either side?
Jesse Jackson was out applauding those who voted. Wonder if he will take it back.
GOPe STANK. Time to clean out our house first... simply outrageous if proven true.
Word.
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Sent this to Drudge. Conservative media has to push this video
I dont believe Thad was behind this for a minute.
But hard to believe Haley would be so damn dumb.
Maybe the problem is who Haley hired to the dirty work.
Did they think no one from the opposing side would save Text messages????????????????
> Cochran needs to resign immediately.
DemocRATs NEVER resign. It doesn’t how heinous their crime, they just continue like nothing happened.
yes, yes, republicans always resign when something untoward goes down, so surely he will..../s
WOW....and the other MS US Senator implicated
McDaniel needs to sue, now. GOP Talk Radio needs to stop covering for the GOP and start getting serious....your audience is dwindling and will do so more if you continue to ignore ThadGate
What a shame.
Im not on Facebook so I cant get word to Mark Levin. He is most likely to take the story.
Conservative media is FAILING on this story. MCDANIEL WON, COCHRAN LOST. This is a travesty!
Take it back?
Jackson and Sharpton will demand a meeting with Cochran to get their
cut too!
The Democrats don't have to sow anything. The GOPe has been front and center in this thing saying "we don't care if your guy won, shut up and vote for our hand picked senile old coot."
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2011/12/sen_roger_wickers_aide_keeps_j.html
“Sen. Roger Wicker’s aide keeps job after stripper charges dropped”
Such an upstanding citizen...
Charging that Perry “has never ran a legal election in this state” because “he was never qualified by the Secretary of State’s office,”
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