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
This sounds fishy. I’m withholding judgement.
Democrats can’t win this fair and square, so they have every incentive to sow dissension in GOP ranks and the public at large so that so many people get turned off by the whole thing that Childers wins by default.
What advantage does this “Reverend” have in implicating himself in the vote buying?
ping here
What can you tell us about Charles Johnson?
He says he had a change of heart when he looked at what McDaniel actually stood for. He’s voted Republican in the past. I don’t care what the circumstances or motivations are. If it can force a second election, I’m for it.
Cochran has ZERO support from me
Funny.
What is not said is how much this preacher was promised to pass out
the $15 for votes.
What was his cut?
Make it hurt!
HA!
Hopefully this is not Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs.
Good question. He complains because his illegal payment didn’t come in.
On a related topic:
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/06/30/mayfield-family-plans-lawsuit-charges/11800367/
It was clear this sort of thing was going on and it’s good that it is getting out.
Very good question. All things have gone days dark, my friend. Breitbart.com, maybe? McDaniels has good attorneys, I pray.
/johnny
Pretty sure he is from Fresno.
He works or worked for The Daily Caller
$15?
Cheapo RINOs and cheap, pathetic black voters in this case.
What kind of person would take a measly $15 for their vote?
I would rather sell my blood for $15 then sell my vote.
Everyone involved in this crime should NEVER be allowed to vote for anything.
Can all the blacks get immunity if they rat out Cochran and Barbour?
He is an intense brilliant investigative reporter and is close to the McDaniel campaign.
He is uncovering some good stuff.
He traveled with the Tea Party Express Bus Tour at primary time and also was with the group for the recall mini tour.
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