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Ugly: The Aftershocks of a Tea-Party Suicide
NY Magazine ^ | 15 June 2015 | Marin Cogan

Posted on 07/12/2015 5:12:04 PM PDT by oblomov

One evening several years ago, John Mary was up late reading a local blog when he came across a comment from a man who said he lived in Gulfport, Mississippi. The commenter had been watching his kid mow a relative’s lawn, he wrote, when a couple approached the boy and asked if he could cut their grass sometime. The commenter recognized the man. It was Senator Thad Cochran, he wrote, and the woman with him sure as hell wasn’t his wife.

The gossip stuck with Mary, a 62-year-old from Hattiesburg, about 70 miles north of Gulfport. But he didn’t think much of it until last year, when a young conservative state senator named Chris McDaniel decided to challenge Cochran in the 2014 Republican primary.

Mary, who has wispy hair and a beard, all of it white except for his eyebrows, had an intense interest in politics. He tweeted under the handle @DaRinoHunter. His Twitter bio read: “CONSERVATIVE!! In a world filled with fakes and frauds we take seriously the job of sorting through the clutter to out the imposters OUT THE RINO’S.”

To Mary, Cochran was a classic Republican in name only. First elected to the Senate in 1978 and sometimes referred to as the “king of pork,” Cochran was known as an able deliverer of federal funding to his impoverished state. It was a skill that had been considered a virtue — until the tea party came along and made reining in the national debt a pillar of its insurrection. In October 2013, Cochran sided with party leadership to raise the $17 trillion debt ceiling, ending a 16-day government shutdown. McDaniel entered the race the next day. “I’ve got 17 trillion reasons not to compromise,” he declared at his first campaign rally.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: cochrane; corruption; mcdaniel; teaparty
A slightly dated article, which may nonetheless be of interest. Though from a famously left-center source, it's not writen entirely without compassion.
1 posted on 07/12/2015 5:12:04 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

I wasted a couple of minutes of my life reading the article and
I never did find out if the kid got the lawn-cutting job or not.


2 posted on 07/12/2015 5:16:19 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: oblomov

Mary??? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?


3 posted on 07/12/2015 5:23:08 PM PDT by bkepley
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To: oblomov
To Mary, Cochran was a classic Republican in name only. First elected to the Senate in 1978 and sometimes referred to as the “king of pork,” Cochran was known as an able deliverer of federal funding to his impoverished state.

Sounds like Mary is on solid ground here

4 posted on 07/12/2015 5:23:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: oblomov

Those NY’rs sure do hate the right, don’t they?


5 posted on 07/12/2015 5:31:09 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: oblomov

Assisted suicide.


6 posted on 07/12/2015 5:32:12 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: doorgunner69

I live in NYC, and in my experience, most NYers have almost no comprehension of the right, let alone what tea party activists believe.


7 posted on 07/12/2015 5:38:14 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

Thanks for posting it, I thought it was a fair article. Of course it’s R on R crime, so no skin off their noses to be fair.

They shouldn’t have invaded that woman’s privacy that way, I can’t agree with that. But I think the reaction was a little over the top.

And Thad Cochran is a complete bum.


8 posted on 07/12/2015 5:56:44 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: oblomov

Does NY Mag even know where Mississippi is on the map?
Clue: “It is not a suburb of Queens”


9 posted on 07/12/2015 7:14:41 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: oblomov

I am not going to read the article.
All I am here to say is,
“ As long as Timothy Thiel has breath , there will be a Tea Party!”


10 posted on 07/12/2015 7:27:31 PM PDT by Bibman ("We are the dead" Winston Smith 1984)
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To: oblomov; .45 Long Colt; paintriot; Lil Flower; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; ...

Mississippi ping


11 posted on 07/12/2015 8:53:09 PM PDT by WKB
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To: oblomov

Thanks for sharing this. Exposes the rotten belly of the Mississippi Republican Party, a party in a state that once had honorable men like John C. Stennis and G.V. Montgomery. Now the seat of repugnicans who would sell the hard working men of Mississippi for next to nothing while helping the open immigration aims of the democrat pary and the chamber of commerce.


12 posted on 07/12/2015 9:09:34 PM PDT by Boowhoknew
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To: WKB

Has anything been done toward preventing the election fraud from repeating?


13 posted on 07/12/2015 9:43:12 PM PDT by paintriot (On the Conservative Coast.)
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To: oblomov
"First elected to the Senate in 1978 and sometimes referred to as the “king of pork,” Cochran was known as an able deliverer of federal funding..."

The worst kind, bought and paid for. The most influential constituents of such politicians are the reason for the fall of the Republican Party.

The only candidate who has a real record of cutting much spending in his state against great odds is Scott Walker. He's most likely the only candidate with an true intent to cut much big government spending. Any of the other favorites would take us quickly to collapse and repudiations of debts (see Greece, Argentine, much worse here). Without the big spending, there wouldn't be any enforcement of big regulations against new business competition on American soil


14 posted on 07/12/2015 10:29:02 PM PDT by familyop ("The Romans and their Empire were but a bauble in comparison to the Jews." --President John Adams)
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To: oblomov

“I live in NYC, and in my experience, most NYers have almost no comprehension of the right, let alone what tea party activists believe.”

And probably know or care even less about the state of Mississippi.


15 posted on 07/13/2015 4:46:39 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Phillip Nolan every day.)
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To: oblomov

Read the title, read the first three paragraphs and protect your liberal sensibilities. (All nonsense.). Bury the lead.

Well done NY Magazine.


16 posted on 07/13/2015 4:50:11 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: paintriot

“Has anything been done toward preventing the election fraud from repeating?”

Not that I know of. Considering the fact that everyone from Gov Phil Bryant on down was complicit in the fraud I would
be surprised if anything ever gets done.


17 posted on 07/13/2015 5:30:57 AM PDT by WKB
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To: paintriot

Haley Barbour is reaching out to black democrats, not with Conservative and Republican ideals but by saying we should do away with things like Voter ID, opposition to illegal immigration and secure borders and support more of the “government programs” and this was before they decided to scrap our heritage.


18 posted on 07/13/2015 5:44:08 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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