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
I apparently don’t know the rules around here. Thanks for the link.
I understand. Beltways can’t be trusted. Can’t understand that kind of “stupid”.
If you are going to work with RATS to steal an election, what else can you expect from RATS?
It’s hard to keep up with who only wants a link posted,etc.
Eric Holder wouldn’t let that happen.
I am sitting here cackling like Hillary.
This is like some Three Stooges Comedy.
Or Maybe Benny Hill.
Just proves how stupid the great ‘patriots’ of the GOP really are, Not only pull a stunt like this but pull it with someone that is even less competent than ‘Dr. Evil’.
Oh yes...lets elect more intellectual giants like this. “No matter what”.
The GOP has become the Charlie Sheen of politics.WINNING!
That story got me, too. I have been very upset ever since I read it. Well, I was upset before, but this story made me even more so.
I’m thinking down at #128. See if you agree?
I know a state that should be awfully ashamed of one of it’s residents for dragging the collective IQ down with his presence...And it aint AZ ;)
What did the GOPe’s think would happen by stealing the election with RAT votes?
This is what happens when you put the desire for power over principal.
Lots of dust needs to settle out on all of this.
The "good reverend" could just be the very stupid weak link in the chain of corruption and has no idea how deep he stepped in it when he was running his mouth.
There are very stupid people in this world.
In honor of Boss Hogg and his machinations blowing up in his face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yfqVYwfJE
Benny Hill. That was one funny Brit!
Breitbart is mentioned several times in what I posted.
Matt Boyle is good, he was with us for a bit on the TPX primary and runoff tours.
He LOVES FreeRepublic as does the Breitbart Chairman Stephen Bannon.
Talked with him last week
As did Andrew.
Well we cant have principle or purity. That makes FR’s libs spin out and hit walls. Better to keep them happy by electing their moral equals. /s
I’m thinking down at #128.
Turnabout is fair play.
Just remember, Norm, evil can actually be good, so long as it’s the lesser variety with an R velcroed on its sleeve. It’s so much better than the bad kind of evil with a D on its sleeve.
Now, there. Just keep that thought, and you’ll get through this with a smile!
WINNING!
Yes, and your votes along with it. Pathetic, this whole corrupt mess. November will bring around some folks who Remember Mississippi and all the horses they rode in on— by name.
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