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Never mind the discussion from Gaffer. It’s meaningless.

Mark Mayfield was a solid and humble lawyer in Mississippi. He came out for the Tea Party and fervently supported Chris McDaniel for US Senator. He was a quiet man whose business was to manage wills and estate planning for his community.

Mark was never a very vocal person, never outlandish. He was quiet and a devout Christian. His family, his neighbors and community all loved him. He was very likable. He was a grandfather and very meek in his demeanor.

But promoting fund raisers for Chris McDaniel was crossing the line in the eyes of the Cochran-Barbour machine in Mississippi. So they set out to get him.

A few dimwits in Mississippi wanted to create a sensation when they discovered Cochran had a young girlfriend in Washington DC while his wife was tucked away in a nursing home in Mississippi. The dimwits had no connection to Chris McDaniel nor any connection to Mark Mayfield. Chris and Mark didn’t even know these guys.

The dimwits communicated amongst each other on facebook pages and they concocted a scheme to go to the nursing home to record an interview of Cochran’s wife during visiting hours but they didn’t know how to approach the Nursing Home Director. Then one of them posted on FB that Mark Mayfield knew the director. But they posted later that Mark said he wanted nothing to do with it.

Later the dimwits gained access to the Nursing Home to record the interview. They went in during visiting hours past the reception desk presumably with permission. And they posted everything and sent their findings to some local media. Their story gained national attention.

The Cochran-Barbour machine came down on the dimwits like a ton of bricks and had they stopped with just a stern admonishment, they would have gained a lot of sympathy. But instead Cochran himself called the local police in Madison where he knew the mayor who was part of the machine. And he talked to her, the Mayor of Madison, and he persuaded her to throw the book at the dimwits.

She upped the charges to a felony of harassment, invasion of privacy, etc. In addition when the police confiscated the computers of the dimwits and reviewed their FB postings, they saw Mark Mayfield’s name and noted he was a Tea Party and Chris McDaniel supporter.

The Madison police during working hours busted through the door of Mark’s business, cuffed him, took all his computers, frightened the hell out of his staff and hauled him off to jail and booked him. They also released photos and information to the press showing him in handcuffs with headlines of being booked on felony charges and so on.

Mark’s business shutdown shortly thereafter. His best clients all withdrew their business.

Mark was released on bail and was found dead in his garage of a gun wound soon after.

Mark lived in a nearby town that was out of the jurisdiction of the Madison Police but that didn’t stop a squad of Madison Police to go to his home to ‘investigate’ the death. Mark’s family sued the Madison Police for harassment.

It was a wrongful death and the responsibility of it lies flatly on the lap of Thad Cochran who put the whole series of events into motion.

Both Cochran and Barbour are former democrats that switched during the Reagan Revolution for ‘convenience’. But they still operate like democrats always did in the South.

It was reported that one of Barbour’s sons was so upset by the Mark Mayfield incident that he was possibly in revolt of his father; that there was internal dissension in the Barbour family. But the Barbour family derives a lot from RNC and Beltway graft so they likely had the story of family dissent hushed. Barbour especially collected millions in fees from deals involving the Export-Import Bank that Ted Cruz and members of the House are trying to defund. That subject is coming up soon again.

The takeaway is there are some real bad crooks as politicians in Mississippi. Eventually they have to be rounded up and tried in a court of law, or banished from politics and dealings with the government.