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
Overrrr, I would say!
Congratulations, Senator McDaniels!
That’s why they have developed an online rapid response squad to go to right wing websites and shout down anything that interferes with the march of liberalism.
which we see here frequently.
Most, if not all was harvested from Matthew Boyle story on Breitbart.
Heads will roll in MS.
If he took money from Cochran, who’s he taking it from now?
Is this from the Clarion Ledger? You need to just post the link to the article.
BookMark
I believe it’s Post 40 on this thread a well known FReeper vouched for Mr Johnson.
Then Go to the Redstate link
Its his debut. Read the same news on RedState
What advantage does this “Reverend” have in implicating himself in the vote buying?
GOOD QUESTION!
LOL!
We’ve heard that one haven’t we? Oh, wait. We’re not in Kansas any more!
:D Rita
“Why would the reverend implicate himself? Evidence of vote fraud usually doesn’t present itself so clearly and openly. This smells funny.”
Stupidity or he’s looking for a deal. Immunity in exchange for testimony.
MS Ping
Go read the link where the guy is actually interviewed.
I don’t know what to think about it.
Maybe he was looking to get paid.
Ah, so that’s how it is supposed to work. If your name pops up on the 6/3 column they refuse a ballot because otherwise if your name was in the other book or omitted from both then it’d be a legal vote.
Pretty low tech and simple way to do it. No wonder Cochran didn’t want them to flip the books. It would have made counting the illegal double votes from Dems as simple as adding names up. Otherwise you’d have to go page by page, book by book.
You should post this. This story made me cry. People need to be sued and thrown in jail. This is despicable.
some people just like all the hype, and interviews, they smell money, and cameras
“Why would the reverend implicate himself?”
Maybe he was undercover.
But he won’t. They will have to drag his fat old ass out of the Senate kicking and screaming. When you are willing to violate the law to stay in power, you no longer deserve to have it.
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