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
Democrats can’t win this fair and square, so they have every incentive to sow dissension in GOP ranks
That’s already been done...BY THE GOP!
He indicates in the RedState article that the Cochrane campaign is trying to pay him now, but he’s giving the McDaniel campaign the chance to pay him first.
Have not heard any detail about 19,000 absentee ballots. That’s the number I recall reading and I’m pretty sure it relates to the runoff.
Dems always overreach and they are running out of time. their window closes in 2016. Now or never.
They think they have sufficiently demonized/Alynski’d TEA. They want the brass ring.
Din, they’re all busy with SCOTUS.
Free Republic is usually first with stories such as this.
The others will catch up.
My sources are impeccable...so therefore credible.
“What kind of person would take a measly $15 for their vote?”
Well then, how much would you have to have?
I wonder if Alzheimer’s has ever been used as a defense in a vote-buying trial?
I’ve come to the realization that it’s our principles that are holding us back, Norm.
Just imagine how much easier our lives would be, and how much happier we’d be with the state of the country and its leadership, if we just let go of all that old fashioned stuff about individual liberty, God-given rights, government serving the people, and low taxation/regulation, capitalism, etc.
If we could just set aside our old notions of personal freedom and greatness of country, we could hold hands in the sun with all the liberals, LGBT queers, Commies, leftists, Low Infos, illegals, greenies, crony capitalists, race pimps, social justice warriors, federal bureaucrats, Travons, moderates, and GOP sell-outs, and sing Kumbayah like we mean it!
What a grand thing it would be -— but for our paleolithic principles - sigh...
Unless it’s contagious, I don’t think it will be a legit defense. Besides, imagine the fallout from admitting to Robert Byrding the guy with that defense...wheel a mentally compromised man out to party vote and wheel him out.
And it would open up options for date night. Men, animals..
You know Windy, You lookin mighty good in them jeans.../Eddie Murphy ;)
We may well be witnessing an event like the exposure of Dan Rather. That, of course, was first uncovered by FReeper, Buckhead. In the current matter, FR serves for dissemination of original investigation and getting the story noticed.
www.facebook.com/saleem.baird
LOL! I wonder if Alzheimer’s has ever been used as a reason to be sent back to the Senate.
-PJ
LOL!
Man, we’d better quit before some broken glass R voter takes us seriously :-)
Hell plenty know we kid and are offended because their true beliefs are being mocked. Their ‘CONSERVATIVE’ beliefs.
That word...I do not think it means what they think it means...
Good to know. Thanks. I hope McDaniel’s legal team has been given a heads-up on this. Thanks again.
“What advantage does this “Reverend” have in implicating himself in the vote buying?
GOOD QUESTION!”
If I had to guess, immunity.
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