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
No do-overs. Gotta learn to live with the consequences of your mistakes.
I think I replied to the wrong thread. Must have been a mistake or sumpin.
I think this was a corrupt campaign manager doing what such people do....probably with the knowledge or at least tolerance of his boss, Cochran. Saleem whatever, the person who set this up, is black and has been in huge amounts of trouble for one thing or another throughout his career. He’s obviously Cochran’s secret weapon among blacks. The interviewer asked the pastor, for example, if he would have engaged in this scheme if the person asking him to do so had been white, and he said no.
It’s very sad, and in fact listening to this black pastor was very depressing. The man is almost unintelligible, clearly confused and afraid, and while he has probably spent his life doing borderline illegal things with government funds, since that seems to be a way of life in black churches, I think he realizes that he’s potentially in big trouble now.
He isn’t a big fish like the drunken GOPe official (not that Saleem guy) who tried to excuse away all the voting irregularities as “mistakes.” That guy really must be shaking. Him coming up DUI drunk after his little ‘only mistakes’ speech was a sign he knows something bad is coming.
Whoever is responsible for the stunt that let to that poor TEA party man’s suicide needs to be held accountable as well.
given the cantor smear campaign he ran, and he lost and the gop-e is scared sh1tless from this,
it is not fishy at all to me.
...write-in line on the ballot in November which only is countable if the candidate drops out for whatever reason...Cochran will NOT remove himself unless he is forced to by the law....can write McDaniel in if Thad removes himself due to his fraud being prosecuted.
It's his job to be a place holder so he can retire after cheating his way to the seat. The Machine already has one of their own picked for the job.
The don't want their system messed up by someone (McDaniel) who will do the job correctly instead of just being a butt boy for the GOPe Machine of big spending, more taxes and more oppression on us peons.
Found some info about that on turncoat Tucker's site:
More at Bow Tie Boy's site if you want to fight the popups and adsHowever, 19,000 absentee voters cast ballots in the GOP run-off, and many of those votes may be improper, say McDaniel’s allies.
“We haven’t gotten into them yet, but we’re confident that is where a lot of their effort was concentrated, and that’s where we’ll find a lot more ineligible votes,” Fritsch said.
As of this moment, there is a report stating that Deacon Robert Markham, with First Union Missionary Baptist Church, where Stevie Fielder claims he is a pastor, says that he (Fielder) is not connected to the church and that Fielder isn't someone he'd do business with. Others with the church claim he isn't with the church, either, and has had legal problems surrounding work they'd done for him.
Additionally, Thad Cochran's communications manager says that Stevie Fielder originally worked for the Cochran campaign, then quit, demanded payment, and is now lying for cash.
Johnson's shortcomings can be investigated as another matter.
I disagree. You only get one chance to get it right, and Johnson has a record of publishing things which aren't true and not doing enough research. Now, Johnson wants you to believe that someone he acknowledges he's paid cash to has revelations to share, and is comfortable admitting to committing multiple felonies.
Finally, Stevie Fielder claims that he delivered (his exact quote): “hundreds or even thousands,” of blacks to the polls after being offered 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.”
So, hundreds or even thousands - if I was handing out money, I'd know to the person. Additionally, how did he transport hundreds or thousands of people in one day? Voting takes at least half an hour where I live, not counting driving, by the time you've stood in all three lines (get your ballot, vote, turn in your ballot). Much less load up a vehicle with people, pay them, drive them, wait for them to vote, load them up again, drive them back, unload them, and repeat. How many times did he repeat that to get hundreds? Thousands?
Major lawsuit over Senate race 'shenanigans'
From what I can see, it looks like McDaniel has other, legitimate issues to raise with this election. If Fielder/Johnson turn out to be a bust, who will want to listen to those issues?
Blogger Claims Cochran Campaign Bought Votes^
Cochran campaign denies vote buying reports^
Cochran camp tries to clear vote buying allegations^
Unless and until Stevie Fielder submits his claims to a court under penalty of perjury, this goes nowhere.
It's certain that Stevie was NOT the only tool that was used.
This is the press release.
From a sitting senator no less:
https://twitter.com/crabblers/status/484360046990880768/photo/1
Hopefully that’s been shopped. I can’t believe a sitting senator would be so unprofessional.
I thought better of Marshall Ramsey too:
https://twitter.com/MarshallRamsey/status/484358854697058304/photo/1
Lines are being drawn. Here in Tennessee, the campaign to replace Lamar! is doing exactly that. We have two Hill brothers in the Legislature from Upper East. Timothy has endorsed Joe Carr. Matthew has not.
I hoped for better from Marsha Blackburn, Phil Roe and Ron Ramsey. They all have gone Lamar!
Makes sense. Thanks for your reply! :)
Can you check Mississippi media and find out if the presser might be streamed live?
Will do.
#mssen on twitter has lots of info, it might be on there.
Thanks.
FWIW
The reporter is Charles C. Johnson, I believe that he is the former Breitbart reporter who according to Wayne Allyn Root was going to bring back evidence on Obama from Indonesia.
Beginning @4:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCwKOGpSJ4
The producer of this video is Joel Gilbert who also did the debunked video “Dreams of My Real Father”. Gilbert has been the source of a number of articles here at Free Republic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2920965/posts?page=89#89
Is that today? What is Cochran having a press conference for?
blame the fall guy.
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