Posted on 06/30/2014 8:50:51 PM PDT by Viennacon
A black Mississippi pastor has emerged to claim Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) campaign paid “thousands” of Democrats $15 each to vote in the June 24 GOP runoff – and that he was part of the scheme. Rev. Stevie Fielder, an associate pastor at First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Meridan, Mississippi, says Cochran's campaign “told me to offer blacks $15 each and to vote for Thad.” Fielder, who was paid by freelance journalist Charles C. Johnson for the story, provided a new outlet launched by Johnson—GotNews.com—with four text messages from a person purporting to be Cochran campaign staffer Saleem Baird. The messages cite an official Cochran campaign email address—Saleem@ThadForMs.com—and include detailed discussions of the campaign providing envelopes of money to distribute to people who vote. “Send me individual names and amounts along with home address to saleem@thadforms.com and I’ll have money separated in envelopes at the office waiting for you,” one message, sent three days before the runoff, says. Fielder said he helped distribute the Cochran cash for votes on a promise of eventually getting paid $16,000—and because a key Cochran campaign staffer convinced him that Cochran’s conservative challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel was racist. “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 said. But Cochran's campaign never paid, Fielder said. But as to whether Cochran himself—the “candidate,” per Mississippi law—would be responsible for the actions of his campaign staffers, election law attorney Trey Traynor of Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP told Breitbart News that “clearly yes,” Mississippi’s “statutes applies to candidates and their agents.”
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Criminals can’t exactly call 911 to report they got stiffed.
The 0bama economy hurts everyone, money is scarce, bills need to be paid.
This guy is looking for a payday and wanted to keep a low profile. He prolly looks forward to every election as an opportunity to earn a “bonus”
I think Cuch may have been instrumental in Brat’s victory
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I realize it is ONLY one Congressional District but I would like to think McAwful had a LOT to do with it also.
Remember Cantor got himself in ‘trouble’ when he was going along to get along with Boehner (Of course, survival is game/rule #1 in Politics as it is now played).
I would imagine it did nothing to endear his constituents with the ‘illegal immigrant’ position he was - if nothing else - apparently leaning towards.
The ‘Powers that be’ must have a ‘problem’ with Cuch. He didn’t even appear to be interested in the Senate Seat.
I just don’t think Gillespie is the person to beat Warner.
And some of the ‘older’ GOPe will (maybe) think they are voting for E Taylors X-Husband.....
“every last Barbourite”
shouldn’t that be Barbourian?
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The GOPe is full of Cochran’s!
If Thad the thief is allowed to remain in this race, I will explode with anger and hatred toward the GOP, who are even worse then the hateful democrats and use the same tactics.
I never understood dems voting in pub primaries and now realize it was a setup from the get go.
Illegal, corrupt, and racist. Typical of the “progrssives” of both parties.
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Thud Cockroach and his minions are the real racists.
Thank Democrat plant Robert Sarvis, the LINO candidate, who is now running for Senator.
Thank Democrat plant Robert Sarvis, the LINO candidate, who is now running for Senator.
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“numbers” wise - Yes....
However the Libertarians said this guy was a phony from the gitgo.
RINO’s didn’t support C, RNC went on Chris Plante and ‘claimed’ the RNC Money was better spent in NJ as they had pumped enough into the VA campaign.
Plante called the guy out on it but not really harsh enough to his ‘face’
I am a ‘firm believer’ that money should not be able to be donated to a candidate unless the donee can actually vote in the election.
The GOV of NJ or the Mayor of NY has absolutely NO business campaigning for the GOV of VA or CA....
In reality, he is ‘wasting’ his time and his constituents money but it all ties together in the long run.
Like ‘we’ used to say kind of foolish for someone to spend 5 mil running for a job that pays 150 a year for a couple of years - UNLESS there is a big payday involved.
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