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
If this is legit, you can expect a story in the MSM about Charles Johnson having immoral relations with a rooster before they ever touch this.
Let’s get Barbour in prison first. Then Cochran can resign.
Vote buying is serious business.
If he is owed 16,000 that means someone in the GOP offered him 16,000.
That is fraud and criminal on both ends.
Selling plasma pays better
I am going to bed tonight with a smile on my face just thinking about the GOPe crapping their pants right now
Sounds like you’ve been to a GOPeFR reeducation camp. Was the food at least good? :)
bump
72 hours is about average for lsm, or, not at all. How’s that! ;)
Some of us are. But Californicating is what got him elected last go around. I voted for him to get Palin and I was WRONG to do it. And I am shamed for having done it, Palin or not.
Great! and they even paid me $15 to eat there!
/johnny
“I am sitting here cackling like Hillary.
This is like some Three Stooges Comedy.
Or Maybe Benny Hill.”
Or with the civil suit by the Mayfield family, maybe Keystone Cops? ;-)
Seriously! He can’t put some clone of himself up in that case, can he!
Do you break the law if you agree to do something for money then don’t get paid? Is getting stiffed the same as changing your mind?
It’s like buying a hooker. The hooker hasn’t broken the law if she performs for free. Money has to exchange hands. Right? I don’t have experience.
Yep, they got caught with their pants down.
And not just figuratively...Cochran has/had a mistress while his wife was confined to a hospital bed.
He apparently emulates dems as well as buying their votes to defeat Conservative Tea Party type Constitutional Republic supporters.
Plot to kill someone on the promise of money and see if you remain a free man.
Its called Conspiracy.
What a week! You’re so right. As November approaches it will be like fleas here.
LOL! The meme that keeps on giving!
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