Posted on 06/30/2014 8:17:06 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
According to the work of Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert, what we thought was just a racist campaign to get people out to vote in the Cochran vs McDaniel Mississippi Senate race was the tip of the iceberg. It now appears to be a vote buying scandal right out of the office of Thad Cochran himself:
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 offered 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at therightscoop.com ...
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For his efforts, Fielder says the Cochran campaign and Baird promised him $16,000 for paying black voters $15 a vote, but Baird wound up stiffing him. Baird even asked him to delete all texts between the two of them. In addition to Baird, Fielder says he spoke with Kirk Sims, the Cochran campaign manager, and a woman named “Amanda” with the campaign, most likely Amanda Shook, director of operations to re-elect Thad Cochran. All refused to pay him the agreed upon amount of $16,000.
Baird realized he had been lied to when he “took a good look at the campaign ads” and realized “McDaniel was not a racist...me and other people were misguided and misled.”
Fielder confronted Saleem the weekend before the election and asked about whether or not McDaniel was actually a racist and Baird confirmed it. Baird ‘personally confirmed that McDaniel was a racist.” Baird ‘manipulated me to manipulate many other people,” says Fielder. Baird did not disclose that he worked as a paid legislative staffer for Senator Roger Wicker. Fielder also says he spoke with campaign manager Kirk Sims about getting paid and about the ethnical complaints he had.
Fielder is a Democrat but said he has voted for Republicans in the past. And though Fielder is being paid for his story by Got News, he says he’d come forward anyways. ‘I thought what I did was wrong.’ Fielder said he was motived mostly by concerns that McDaniels was a racist, not money.
As to what should happen next, ‘definitely the election should not be allowed to stand,” says Fielder, who says he’ll support McDaniel in event of a special election. ‘He’s been done wrong. He’s not what they said that he is.’
ROFLMAO.... That is the best laugh I’ve had today Rita. Thanks. You should be a writer for a TV Sit-Com.
lol
Thank God for your sarcasm/snark tag. I was about to come over there and give you what for!
;-)
Sweet. First the Hobby Lobby ruling, now this. It's almost too much too hope for.
Headline fix.
-PJ
ROMNEY/DOLE 2016!
/snort
No audio right now here, what has Gallo been saying?
He’s admitting here to multiple FELONIES.
FBI talking to this guy?
“If there is a special election, who would you vote for now?” Stevie Fielder, the pastor who got stiffed by the Cochran campaign..”Oh I would have to vote for McDaniel. I feel like I got stiffed!”
**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 offered money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a racist.**
And a minister did this. Shame.
If this is tha same Charles Johnson from LGF, I’d be very leery of the source and get independent confirmation direst.
Well, well! I hope this translates into real action, going all the way back to McConnell, if there is such a link. This, if true, cannot just be brushed under the proverbial rug. This would be outright serious campaign fraud, with the intent to throw an election.
Dear Lord, please may there be justice done.
thank you, Viennacon! And thank you RightScoop! Good work!
Lol!
Hey, wait a minute, where’s my 15 bucks, I got standards you know! B^)
Listening to it:
1. He sounds a bit tipsy.
2. Sounds like he would have shut up had they paid him the $$$ he was promised.
He claims to have text messages. Would be very easy for a legitimate investigation to take place. This man is confessing to FELONY federal violations.
Does Holder’s DOJ care?
Different Charles Johnson
Different Charles Johnson
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