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
/johnny
Simply tell DOJ Holder they paid only 15 dollars per vote
Why, that is practically voter suppression
The communists empire will come to Cochran’s aid. Example of America’s corruption and it is wide spread in all of government.
Since I learned this week on FR from fellow freepers that Abortion is a lesser evil, Amnesty sites are acceptable sources for border patrol/illegal stats and the Reagan GOP was far mot liberal than the stalwart Rock Ribbed VRWC card carrying GOP of today, my life is much better.
Maybe Haley Barbour and the rest of Cochran’s people should of thought about those things before they decided to make their deal with the devil. Their pyrrhic victory may not be any kind of victory at all. Good-bye GOPe.
The Reverend was off the meet Johnny.
I fear that he is no longer with us.
Johnson is in the middle of it.
I hope there’s nothing the reverend can be charged on since he never got paid.
LOL. It’s racist to only offer $15 a vote.
Post of the day!
There shouldn’t be a second election. Cochran should be disqualified and that’s that.
I hope McDaniel knocks the crap out of McCain, Wicher and McConnell the minute he’s sworn in.
LOL! You’re on a roll, now!
The story says he was stiffed out of almost $16,000.
Don’t sweat it. There are rules regarding certain publications. The Clarion Ledger happens to be one of them. I read the story earlier, and that is why I caught that it was from the CL. I also read a good portion of the material from the CL via another source that copied the material.
Is Megan “skip to ma lou” Kelly upset or shocked?
I have no doubt he would. McCain is scum. Arizona should be perpetually ashamed they sent this disgrace to the senate.
I’ve sold my blood for 5 bucks.
Nope. Just pointing out our real world experiences for the week here. It’s FR’s liberal wing providing the entertainment.
Or spreading leftism. Because it sure as hell isn’t promoting conservative values and ideas.
Just broke at 9:00 PM tonight. Johnson is the primary reporter. It has hit RedState, from there, it should get to Breitbart and Drudge. Local media should follow depending on when McDaniel files charges.
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