Cochran Campaign Manager Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation

Gotnews ^ | 6/30/2014 | Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert

[Viennacon]

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

[GeronL]

whether he got paid or not, he still committed the crime

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“Why, that is practically voter suppression”

Yeah, and violating both the ‘Minimum Wage Laws’ and ‘Child Labor Laws’! ;-)

[Norm Lenhart]

But it shouldn’t be. None of that crap should have ever happened on a conservative site to begin with.

[Syncro]

Just got notified that the McDaniel and his people are aware of Charles’ article.

With this also:

“New Campaign happening now!!!”

Not sure what that means yet.

[Girlene]

If you read this article, he's looking to get paid. BREAKING: New Allegations Point to Cochran Campaign in Mississippi Senate Vote Buying Scandal

He indicates in the RedState article that the Cochrane campaign is trying to pay him now, but he's giving the McDaniel campaign the chance to pay him first.

This is either a setup or this guy is really, really stupid to admit to all of this.

[VerySadAmerican]

Yeah, well, this is Mississippi and this is a black man who didn’t get paid and was taken advantage of. That right there is 4 “get out of jail free” cards.

[Din Maker]

They want Cochran. ____________________________________________________________ Nah, Johnny; that won't fly. A story this big, every major network would be breaking their neck to be the first to Report. They love the Clintons, but, they printed stuff like Hillary's response to Benghazi: “What difference does it make”. Besides, what the hell do they care about a senile old Senator in Mississippi who molested sheep? If this is a genuine story, it will be on FOX and Friends in the morning.

[JRandomFreeper]

You have more faith in the media than I do. They are slow, and they are often wrong, and they always have an agenda.

/johnny

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

what a rip-off, cheapo white man

ROFL!

Dude, that can't even buy a 40oz of Colt and a pack of Newports!

[Norm Lenhart]

I get that, don’t misunderstand. But this is bigger than the typical Gibdsmedtat victimhood racemongering. Jessie and AL will be pushing this in ways the GOP does not want it going. And if they DO side with the GOP, then lots of GOP voters are gonna wake up fast.

All our enemies are going to eat each other trying to save their own asses.

[GeronL]

lol

[txhurl]

It probably means they’re going to find INITIAL primary votes to throw out that were bought, meaning Chris won it outright on June 3.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Ping

[Syncro]

More from the newsninja, Wayne Dupree:

Mississippi Chris McDaniel Keeps Fighting!! Invalid Double-Votes up to 20%; Sentiment Swings

Wayne Dupree

on June 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM

Volunteers working for tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in Mississippi say they have already found 20 percent of the invalid double-votes they need to cancel Sen. Thad Cochran’s business-funded runoff victory.

“We’re finished with Hinds County, and we’re up to 1,500” invalid votes, said Noel Fritsch, Daniel’s press aide.

That’s critical because McDaniel can force another runoff if he can find more invalid votes than Cochran’s roughly 7,000-vote margin-of-victory on June 24. Votes are invalidated if voters cast ballots in both the Democrats’ June 3 primary and the GOP’s run-off on June 24.

However, McDaniel can also force another election even if he can’t find 7,000 invalid ballots, said Fritsch.

“We don’t have to prove that we have 7,000 [invalid] votes…. all there needs to be is enough doubt about the election, and we’re confident about that,” he said.

[txhurl]

AND, Chris can sue Cochroach’s camp for all the election expenses incurred due to Thad’s illegitimate forcing of the runoff.

[Din Maker]

Just got notified that the McDaniel and his people are aware of Charles’ article.
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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”

[VerySadAmerican]

Like I said, the democrats could destroy the republican machine. But, they know if that happens it will be replaced by the Tea Party machine and they don’t want that. We have to remember that democrats and republicans all play in the same sandbox.

[Syncro]

Sorry about the giant picture, didn’t have time to go in the source and make it smaller.

Link to story in my last post

http://newsninja2012.com/mississippi-chris-mcdaniel-keeps-fighting-invalid-double-votes-up-to-20-sentiment-swings/

[tennmountainman]

Love your updates! Thanks for posting them!

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

“What was his cut?”

According to the Rev. they stiffed him for 16k. He had sudden change of heart when the money didn’t flow his way. One case when crime did not pay.