“He doesn’t have any ownership interest in the establishment. He doesn’t manage the establishment in any kind of way. There are currently no charges pending against Mr. Baird,” Cockerham said. “He is, in my opinon, an upstanding gentleman, and he’s moving forward.”
Baird, 30, earns about $50,000 a year as a legislative correspondent for Wicker, according to LegiStorm.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70181.html#ixzz36BrCkmdf
Cocker ham? Wicker? And Baird?
Via Ray 76 from FR:
To sum up so far:
Reverend Stevie Fielder
* associate pastor at First Union Missionary Baptist Church
* former official at Meridian’s redevelopment agency
* claims 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.
Saleem Baird
* a staffer with the Cochran campaign
* current legislative aide to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker
Kirk Sims
* U.S. Senator Cochran’s campaign manager
a woman named “Amanda” with the campaign,
* most likely Amanda Shook, director of operations to re-elect Thad Cochran.
Text messages released to Got News and a recorded interview with Reverend Fielder confirmed that Saleem Baird and Kirk Sims were involved in a $15 per vote cash bribery scheme to target members of the black community.
Evidence seems to implicate the Barbour machine and a staffer to Cochran’s Senate campaign
“Well I mean, you know I told you, I brought some information to the table. And he don’t have a big window, cuz I know at 5, I’m supposed to meet ah, them, some of em was claiming from out of town some kind of way. I don’t know a johnny barbour, some barbour guy, you know em?”
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.
77 posted on 7/1/2014, 12:12:38 AM by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it’s more of the same...)