Posted on 07/02/2014 2:49:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Thad Cochran campaign call Wednesday afternoon tumbled into disaster when a questioner asked why the Cochran campaign was "harvesting black people" for votes. The call was held to push back against claims from the campaign of Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, Cochran's intra-party challenger who contends he won last week's Republican primary runoff election illegitimately by courting the votes of Democrats and African-Americans.
But the call was quickly hijacked by callers who later referred to themselves as supporters of McDaniel. One repeatedly interrupted Cochran campaign adviser Austin Barbour.
"Quick question," said the caller, who did not identify himself. "Since black people harvested cotton, why is it OK to harvest their votes? Why is it OK to harvest the votes of black people?"
After Barbour largely ignored the question, the questioner asked again: "If black people were harvesting cotton, why do you think it's OK to harvest their votes?"
This finally triggered a response from Barbour.
"Sir, I don't know where you're calling from, but I'm happy to address any question, no matter the lunacy of it," Barbour said.
But the questioner continued to press, insistent on derailing the call.
"Why did you use black people? Why did you use black people to try to get Cochran elected when they're not even Republicans? You're treating them as if they're just idiots, that they'll just vote for Cochran just because they're black. Why did you harvest black votes?"
This was when Barbour decided to end the call — or at least end his participation.
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Yep,the caller did a great job.
Yeah, by the looks of the welfare rolls very few.
From personal experience, in the rural areas of Mississippi (the Delta) and Alabama (the Black Belt), quite a few.
Maybe because (90-95%) of afroAmericans are so easily led?
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They’re stupid (average IQ of 80), tend to be easily led by others , and accustomed to committing election fraud or fraud in general ,, whatever will get them that government handout... The fact that this amounted to “screwing with the evil tea party candidate” was the icing on the cake ...
I don’t believe the $15/vote price either ... it probably was at least $20-$25 and the person that reported the vote buying conveniently left their “skim” out.
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