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Cochran Campaign Manager Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation
Gotnews ^ | 6/30/2014 | Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: charlescjohnson; chrismcdaniel; cochranrico; electionfraud; electionfraudrico; fraud; goperico; mcdaniel; teaparty; thadcochran; votefraud; voterfraud
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To: Hoodat

Excellent notion.


321 posted on 07/01/2014 8:24:45 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“How is it stupid?”

He’s on audio explaining how it all worked - numbers, dollar amounts, details. If he’s telling the truth, he’s made his own indictment a walk in the park.

We’ll see what happens.


322 posted on 07/01/2014 9:09:55 AM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: Girlene
He's a member of a protected group. I doubt a black preacher is going to get serious time for vote fraud. He'll have good lawyers and community support. History indicates that not much will happen.

/johnny

323 posted on 07/01/2014 9:19:16 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Girlene

I’ll agree on monumentally stupid, and be thankful that he is.


324 posted on 07/01/2014 9:19:29 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
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To: itssme

“I checked Drudge and none of this is making headlines. Wonder why Drudge isn’t reporting on this.....”

No mention from Rush either.


325 posted on 07/01/2014 9:42:47 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: don-o

I miss Mr. Breitbart every day.


326 posted on 07/01/2014 9:47:25 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie
No mention from Rush either.

All over Hobby Lobby. Which is fine. I guess some people need it explained. Sometimes I can listen to more than five minutes at a time. I a trying today.

327 posted on 07/01/2014 9:51:06 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Viennacon

Look for a certain pastor with some pertinent info to suddenly disappear.
Snitches get stitches...and end up in ditches.
The left is more than capable, a la Arkancide.


328 posted on 07/01/2014 9:59:07 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.)
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To: all the best

What will that achieve?
More yakety yak and Tea party burning, with no action?
Waste of time.
Throw them out.


329 posted on 07/01/2014 9:59:58 AM PDT by Huskerfan44 (Huskerfan44 (22 Yr, Navy Vet))
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To: gimme1ibertee

Yea the guilt over this election fraud will be to great for the pastor.
He will be found with 2 bullet holes in the back of his head, it will be ruled suicide.


330 posted on 07/01/2014 10:01:10 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

Some one needs to get on the phone and call Rush’s show...we need to hear from Rush on this.


331 posted on 07/01/2014 10:02:13 AM PDT by itssme
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To: itssme

May have to wait for 6 pm Eastern time.


332 posted on 07/01/2014 10:06:07 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: mowowie

Yep.


333 posted on 07/01/2014 10:06:32 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.)
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To: AlmaKing

The article referred to Mississippi as the Palmetto State which is incorrect. It is the Magnolia State.


If that keeps up, SC is going to have to fall back to the “Iodine State.”


334 posted on 07/01/2014 10:22:08 AM PDT by Peet (Liberals are the feces that are created when shame eats too much stupid. -Dale Gribble)
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To: Viennacon

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/01/cochran-campaign-denies-vote-buying/11911539/

Link only. Cochran campaign claiming Fielder paid for “get out the vote” work only.


335 posted on 07/01/2014 11:58:20 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

No mention of the texts and envelopes huh?

Reminds me of the saying, Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?


336 posted on 07/01/2014 12:07:36 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: don-o

100% of the comments looks anti-Cochran. Dissent is spreading!


337 posted on 07/01/2014 12:44:37 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: Viennacon

http://charlescjohnson.com/about-charles

something of a vita, as many question his bona fides


338 posted on 07/01/2014 12:48:55 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o; All
Wayne Dupree
30 mins ·

MISSISSIPPI UPDATE: Media being kept from GOP Executive Mtg; McDaniel Camp finds 3,300 cases of voter fraud ‪#‎tcot‬ ‪#‎tiot‬ ‪#‎ccot‬ ‪#‎tlot‬

Media being kept out of GOP executive committee meeting@16WAPTNews...
newsninja2012.com

WORKING LINK MORE pics and words


339 posted on 07/01/2014 1:14:25 PM PDT by Syncro (Stop the GOP-e/Dem Voter Fraud!)
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To: Syncro

Links bad.


340 posted on 07/01/2014 1:16:12 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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