Posted on 05/23/2014 11:39:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Someone has created a video about Thad and Kay, Sojourner wrote in the email, a partially redacted version of which was provided to Breitbart News. It must come down ASAP. Does anyone know where this came from?
Sojourner was responding to a video posted online by Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, a blogger who had been compiling documents and other information about Cochran's relationship with his executive assistant, Kay Webber.
Kelly was arrested Friday night for illicitly entering the residence of Cochran's wife Rose at a retirement home in Madison, MS. The photo Kelly allegedly took was in the video that Sojourner said she was angry about.
If I find out anyone associated with our staff had anything to do with this it is immediate grounds for dismissal, Sojourner wrote in the April 26 email. We have to know we cannot engage in these attacks.
Kelly's arrest has upended the race between six-term incumbent Cochran and McDaniel, providing Cochran a moment of sympathy when he needed it most, while putting McDaniel on his heels about what he knew and when he knew it.
The incident helped national GOP establishment figures swoop in to attack McDaniel, and offered a public exhibit of an inexperienced grassroots campaign in crisis mode. But the initial war over the incident has operated without a key fact: the McDaniel campaign knew about the video when it came out, and sent out a wide call to aides and volunteers to find the person who posted it and get them to take it down.
Hours later, a campaign aide contacted two local Republican activists who had been posting about the video on social media, who in turn
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