Right on, brother.
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
Now on Redstate. This may be the beginning of the end for them http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/30/breaking-new-allegations-point-cochran-campaign-mississippi-senate-vote-buying-scandal/
Saleem Baird:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70181.html
“A legislative aide to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) will keep his job after charges were dropped following his arrest this summer for allegedly running an illegal strip club, Wicker’s spokesman said Friday.
Saleem Baird, who’s worked in Wicker’s Washington office since February 2009, was placed on leave after he and three women were taken into police custody Sept. 3 at Level 3 nightclub in downtown Jackson, Miss., when vice and narcotics officers discovered the females stripping on stage without proper licenses.”
http://downtownjacksontrash.blogspot.com/2011/10/senator-roger-wicker-and-level-3-fka.html
“These days, the Level 3 is known as a place where mobs of drunken animals gather for a little late night/early morning fun. After the patrons finish getting drunk beyond belief and playing with illegal strippers, they pile out into the street en masse for more revelry. And by “revelry,” we mean that they go out into the street and recklessly discharge firearms for no good reason and generally make themselves a nuisance to law-abiding citizens.”
Same guy? Right age.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=29381
“Inside a small college gym, military officers dressed in neat, crisp uniforms with shiny medals and colorful ribbons extolled the benefits of military service. Saleem Baird, 21, a computer science and economics major at Tougaloo College here, wasn’t buying into the message.
Saleem, who is black, dreams of becoming a lawyer and getting a master’s degree in public policy. Joining the military would be a last resort, but if his plans fail, he said, he’d at least consider working for one of several defense agencies.”
Sounds like the young man had some hustle and dreams of getting into politics and could bring to the table what crony corrupt plutocrats wanted.
And maybe even in the Magnolia State. Looks like the someone got the trees mixed up, but hopefully the rest of the article is reliable.
(Palmetto = SC, Magnolia = Mississippi)
Why would the reverend implicate himself? Evidence of vote fraud usually doesn’t present itself so clearly and openly. This smells funny.
“Catherine Engelbrecht, head of True the Vote, believes this may go even deeper, in the light of eye witness reports that Perry also illegally fiddled with the absentee ballots, the results of the original January 3 election are now in questionell. It could be that McDaniel won the original election outright, and no run-off was actually needed.
Engelbrecht agrees, and thinks there should be an investigation into the GOP’s June 3 primary, too—because McDaniel may have actually won that outright, meaning there was no need for a runoff, she said, if this level of irregularity happened then.”
Right on, brother.
No, it is not.
I've been following this Charles Johnson's twitter feed all week. I'm not entirely sure about him yet.....he is enthusiastic, I'll give you that, but seems a bit of a loose cannon.
If he's an accurate shot on this account, I'll be the first to forgive a stray cannonball here and there.
Also, what about conservativetreehouse.com?
So sorry, my email is down.
That “cancel by doubt” strategy gives the McDaniel campaign an incentive to collect evidence about possible vote-buying and other potentially unethical behavior by Cochran’s campaign.
bump
Thanks for link. Looks like the beginning of the end of many MS policitians
and MS GOP officials.
The gloves are off.
Uh Oh!
BIG TROUBLE!
Well, well, well. Now ain’t that sumpthin?
Looks like boss hog needs to do a better job of playing dirty politics starting with making sure his rainmakers get paid. Always pay your whores well. Lest they turn states evidence on you.
Now I’d say this reporter just became the bell of the ball. Nice opening shot for his website.
Just shot them an email
Did the despicable campaign Cochran ran in MS sound fishy to you too?
That's a fair question. I do not have a good answer at this point
He was allegedly supposed to get $16.000....but they stiffed him.
Who is Johnny Barbour?
“Well I mean, you know I told you, I brought some information to the table. And he don’t have a big window, cuz I know at 5, I’m supposed to meet ah, them, some of em was claiming from out of town some kind of way. I don’t know a johnny barbour, some barbour guy, you know em?”
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