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
Again, going to go all the way up to Rove, the Chamber of Commerce, and hopefully McConnell.
Just remember the freaking out repeatedly by Dingy Harry.. someone’s messing up his machine.
Mississippi is not the Palmetto state as this article suggests.
$15?
Cheapo RINOs and cheap, pathetic black voters in this case.
What kind of person would take a measly $15 for their vote?
I would rather sell my blood for $15 then sell my vote.
Everyone involved in this crime should NEVER be allowed to vote for anything.
There is absolutely no fear of being caught at voter fraud in this country, we can thank the Rat culture for doing it and the Rino culture for letting it happen.
Now the Rino culture has decided to get in on it and do it themselves.
The true part of the story was that Kirkpatrick was arrested for lewd conduct after streaking, which is apparently a Princeton tradition, go figure. The rest of it - the newspaper pictures, the quotes, the Playgirl stuff, and being nude on a bridge, were all fake, and Charles Johnson fell for it. Here is a link to the story, and to Charles Johnson's direct response, where he admits he was fooled.
Daily Caller Cites 24-Year-Old Fake Princeton Newspaper to Attack the NYT's Benghazi Reporter
Note that he really took his time admitting that he was wrong.
Johnson paired with birther filmmaker Joel Gilbert (creator of "documentaries" including Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison and Elvis Found Alive!) on a story that Cory Booker never lived in Newark, which turned out not to be true.
And now it looks like he's working with Gilbert again on the Mississippi stuff.
This is the same Gilbert who claims in his birther film that Obama's mother made pornographic films. The problems are many: the model in the photos is known; the photos were published when Obama's mother would have been very underaged, making publication of the photos a felony; and she couldn't have known Frank Marshall Davis, who Gilbert says took the pictures, during the time frame they were taken and published.
Oh, and he's working on a book, claiming that he's doing "DNA research" that claims that Obama can't be the son of his father because of brown spots on his face. Here is the Free Republic thread: Shock: Fmr Breitbart Journo Did Extensive DNA Research; Will Destroy Obama’s Legacy!?
In short, I'm not holding my breath.
There is absolutely no fear of being caught at voter fraud in this country, we can thank the Rat culture for doing it and the Rino culture for letting it happen.
Now the Rino culture has decided to get in on it and do it themselves.
Now maybe the Rats will get so jealous of it that they won’t be able to hide any more.
How much would I take for my vote?
My vote is not for sale. That is the truth.
But I believe it is beyond pathetic to sell out for $15.
A low life should at least make it worth the lie and the crime.
I'm not convinced of that. In today's climate, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone just looks the other way and pretends that no laws were broken.
-PJ
That's a good idea. Look. How about we focus on this pastor in Mississippi? Let's get his affidavit and find a Prosecutor to convene a Grand Jury.
Johnson's shortcomings can be investigated as another matter.
But, but, but the Tea Party is dead. I read it on teh internets.
“Was the source of your notification credible? 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””
Flashback to 1998; Who the hell is Drudge?
I gave the link to Levin and Eric Bolling on Twitter.
Josh Painter (I-TX) @Josh_Painter · 7h
Flashback, 2007: Haley Barbour relative defrauded FEMA after Katrina, judge rules - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122
Thanks for the link, I just “LET ‘EM HAVE IT”!
I didn’t know until I tried to post something from that newspaper a few days ago and got a message that we can’t post their content on FR because there had previously been a complaint.
Most newspapers permit an excerpt or at least a link, but some deny that altogether and since there has already been lawsuit FR had to fight off, they’re extra careful now.
IF they “bought” 6000 votes, it would have cost around $90,000. Did they have that kind of money available?
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