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
Yea but ‘Kansas still thinks he won the war do delusions are still the order of the day. ;)
See post 30 by Randia.
On a related topic:
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/06/30/mayfield-family-plans-lawsuit-charges/11800367/
Or wants to stay out of jail as a whistleblower/witness.
I wouldn’t put it past the Rats to be playing both sides.
saw it, passed it along
It sounds like the Dems had the plan all along to drop Thad. Problem was they didn’t count on the other guy contesting the cheating. I listened to the guy, but he is willing to get his own arse arrested for voter fraud because he didn’t get paid?
Possibly some reverse chaos going on, mano mano, someone who knew the facts, took care of some of the Reverend’s medical bills, to cough up the truth and back it up with the evidence.
It could be anyone. If I were there, it would have been me.
People are MADDDD! And they’re giving back what they had foisted on them, in spades.
Then Boss Hogg and Cochran should not have got involved with RATS.
It’s that simple.
On the other thread that was locked the story said that the Reverend would receive $15K which he did not receive and that that is the reason that he is coming forward.
Our votes are so diluted now with the cheating. So very sad.
/johnny
I can’t find where I posted that link that transcripted the conversation.
The one where he mentions Johnny Barbour.
I am not even sure he knows his own motive- except someone has got to pay a brutha.
Reeks of evil
Can’t post stuff from the Clarion Ledger.
Cochran and the GOP only have themselves to blame for getting involved
with RATS. What part of that do u not understand?
Oh here we go..it was at RedState
http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/30/breaking-new-allegations-point-cochran-campaign-mississippi-senate-vote-buying-scandal/
” 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?
The interview then ends with a series of appeals from the Reverend to get paid.”
he said he delivered hundreds or thousands of votes and he wants his payment
so it could be the first few thousand offenses
Oh, you know someone by that name? Really? What ever *was* the name of that scruffy little Kansas dog of Virginia’s! /s
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