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Cochran Campaign Manager Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation
Gotnews ^
| 6/30/2014
| Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert
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.
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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
TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: charlescjohnson; chrismcdaniel; cochranrico; electionfraud; electionfraudrico; fraud; goperico; mcdaniel; teaparty; thadcochran; votefraud; voterfraud
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To: Din Maker
I just find it hard to believe that a story of this magnitude has not been picked up by any news agency except “Got News”The problem is that Got News didn't "pick up" the story, the Got News investigative reporters WROTE the story.
Then it got picked up by FR.
Then redstate and Breitbart.
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posted on
06/30/2014 10:47:59 PM PDT
by
Syncro
(Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
To: TigerClaws
Maybe this is why Dingy went off the rails with the Koch brothers.
If you were, say, James O’Keefe, working with True the Vote, and you needed some co-ordination...
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posted on
06/30/2014 10:51:08 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: all the best; RightField; aposiopetic; rbmillerjr; Lowell1775; JPX2011; NKP_Vet; Jed Eckert; ...
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Cochran Campaign Manager Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation, all the best wrote:
Anybody interested in letting the Republican National Committee know what you think about this matter:
http://www.gop.com/contact-us/
Have at it.
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posted on
06/30/2014 10:52:24 PM PDT
by
narses
(Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
To: narses
The very last thing the GOPe wants to hear is we busted their UNIPARTY blood-pact with the RATS... because this goes all the way to Crossroads and Tokyo Rove and at least 15 ‘R’ Senators.
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posted on
06/30/2014 10:57:30 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: txhurl
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posted on
06/30/2014 10:58:09 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: All
Interesting, the last line of
Matt Boyle's Breitbart article states the following:
Mississippi’s statute that prohibits vote buying states that any candidate engaged in such a practice should [be] disqualified from running in that race for the office or shall be removed from that office if they have been elected into it.But as to whether Cochran himself—the “candidate,” per Mississippi law—would be responsible for the actions of his campaign staffers, election law attorney Trey Traynor of Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP told Breitbart News that “clearly yes,” Mississippi’s “statutes applies to candidates and their agents.”
Cochran needs to be immediately be thrown out of office and charged with the crimes along with his dem and GOP-e co-criminals.
It's the law!
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:05:10 PM PDT
by
Syncro
(Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
To: GeronL
Notice Rience Priebus has been silent.
I’m thinking this dragnet is bigger than we know and committed GOPe cockroaches are running for the islands until some lobbying companies start calling with job offers.
Kinda like Cantor.
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:07:34 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: GeronL; txhurl
Hmmm, interesting similarity in our last posts...
Hope we don't have to get out the pitchforks, torches and tar and feathers. Boy do they deserve the tar and feathers!
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:07:58 PM PDT
by
Syncro
(Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
To: Syncro
Even if he doesn’t get thrown out of office, there will be a write-in line on the ballot in November which only is countable if the candidate drops out for whatever reason.
So the same McDaniel voters who cast more votes than Cockroach’s in the initial primary can write McDaniel in
if Thad removes himself due to his fraud being prosecuted.
It’s all looking up!
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:12:48 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: All
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:14:01 PM PDT
by
Syncro
(Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
To: txhurl
The MS-R Party will be relaunching their “Republican Unity” meme again tomorrow I bet.
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:15:03 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Syncro
Yes they do. really itchy feathers that came from lice-infested chickens
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:15:51 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: txhurl
Oh I think the runoff will be given to McDaniel.
But maybe it will work the way you describe.
Whadda mess!
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:16:01 PM PDT
by
Syncro
(Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
To: Syncro
To: Syncro
Even if the nomination is awarded to McDaniel there is no doubt he is an independent with two major parties working together behind the scenes to crush him.
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:23:48 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Viennacon; All
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:30:26 PM PDT
by
Syncro
(Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
To: GeronL
Such is the cross every Conservative Tea Party type candidate must bear.
Fighting for the restoration of our Constitutional Republic is an epic battle we must keep fighting.
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:32:25 PM PDT
by
Syncro
(Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
To: Syncro
EXCELLENT!
Dr. Wolf getting onboard, can you say LEGS baby!
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:35:29 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: Syncro
bump
I think it deserves an epic song too.
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posted on
06/30/2014 11:41:24 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Syncro
A few thoughts:
The Pastor says he SIGNED SOMETHING. That means there’s a record at the campaign of both him working for them and receiving cash.
The Pastor says there were individual envelopes prepared with 15 or 20 dollars in each. That implicates people back at the campaign office (more staff and managers) who prepared and/or knew about these envelopes.
For what purpose are individual cash envelopes being prepared in that small amount but for a payoff?
These are Republican (RINOs admittedly) white folks with no criminal record. Facing 5 years in jail? They’ll sing and point the finger at higher ups. Just following orders, ya know!
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