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
Far better man than Romney ran. They were ignored in the name of ‘lesser evil’ and “Winning no matter what”. No one ‘won’ anything.
Why don’t more ‘better people” run? Because the conservative base can’t be trusted to vote for conservatives. And to this day many prove it screaming for more ‘lesser evil’.
Well Norm...the whole election system is pretty messed up. Too much money changes hands and to many “other” reasons people run for office , seems the last thing is a sincere desire to serve the country and it’s people.
We know it’s a fast track to wealth with all the inside information they have access to....and wealth means power. Plus it’s a pretty much a cushioned job.
I think it better said than “No one won anything” is no matter who wins they have to compromise in order to get some of what we want because that’s how it’s working now. Obam’s a perfect example when there is no compromise....and there is none because he thinks he’s King and has no skill in getting Congress to work with him.
“Obam’s a perfect example when there is no compromise”
Actually no. Obama is the definitive result of compromise. People were going to go with the lesser evil to win. We told them that their lesser (really no so lesser afterall ad history shows) evil was going to lose. But they knew better.
Instead of standing firm on principle, many many millions compromised principles, ethics, pride, reputations...you name it. And what they got in return was a loss, Obama and a GOP that now openly sides with democrats, compromising even more.
Conservatives compromised everything that defined a conservative and now we all fight a rearguard battle trying to rebuild from the massive damage compromise caused.
Reagan helped make Obama President because in 1983 he signed the King holiday bill. The King holiday has transformed America in many ways; now more popular probably than anything but Christmas.
I have to laugh when I hear off the wall theories like this.
Oh... enough “STOOD FIRM” that they let Obama slide right on in. Their perfect perfumed princes were not available.
On the advice of a couple respected Freepers I’m henceforth going to make a supreme effort at ignoring you.
Have a nice delusion.
“Oh... enough “STOOD FIRM” that they let Obama slide right on in. Their perfect perfumed princes were not available.”
Oh, I’d vote for a candidate that was 65-70% conservative, if necessary. Unfortunately, the choice of Willard was fatal conceit by RINO central. Once they manipulated the system to choose their little RINO, the die was cast - again.
What I won’t do is vote or support a candidate just because he has an R by his name. I’m off their plantation.
And so we have the “blame a convenient enemy then do the counterproductive thing” syndrome once again.
You sure seem to be an expert on delusions. Nothing beats experience.
“And so we have the “blame a convenient enemy then do the counterproductive thing” syndrome once again.”
Actually, you just perfectly demonstrated RINO Plantation Syndrome to excuse the behavior of your masters. Flee while you can!
Nope, this is a malady of all parties.
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