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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: mrclose on June 30, 2014, 10:36:28 PM
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Full Title:BREAKING: New Allegations Point to Cochran Campaign in Mississippi Senate Vote Buying Scandal
An audio interview has surfaced in which the interviewee claims that he was to be paid by the Cochran camp to grease voters in the Mississippi GOP Senate runoff election. The audio interview, which coincides with a separate audio recording and batch of evidence produced by the newly launched GotNews.com, a project by Charles C. Johnson, alleges that the Cochran campaign conspired with a Mississippi Reverend to buy the votes of African American voters, who happen to be democrats.
http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/30/breaking-new-allegations-point-cochran-campaign-mississippi-senate-vote-buying-scandal/
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I think I heard someone on the radio talking about this on election night.
Someone had called into the show and said they saw people passing out money to get people to vote.
I think it was Hugh Hewitt's show or maybe it was Mark Levine. Not sure.
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Cochran Campaign Manager, Staffer Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation (http://gotnews.com/)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iXdhcBajtc[/youtube]
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 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."
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 Magnolia state. In 2011, a Mississippi NAACP leader was sent to prison for voter fraud, according to the Daily Caller.
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.
GotNews (http://gotnews.com/)
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GotNews (http://gotnews.com/)
That's weapons grade fear to pull a dumbass stunt like that. Funnier still is the fact that they didn't pay the "reverend", and he rolled over on their asses.
I wonder what would have happened if he hadn't gotten stiffed?
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The statute goes on to note a fine of $5000 and a prescription for candidates found guilty of engaging in any of the above schemes.
(3) Any candidate who shall violate the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, in addition to the fine prescribed above, be punished by:
(a) Disqualification as a candidate in the race for the elective office; or
(b) Removal from the elective office, if the offender has been elected thereto.
If Thad gets thrown out, who takes his spot on the ballot?
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If Thad gets thrown out, who takes his spot on the ballot?
Well, I would assume that it would be McDaniel, since he was the other candidate in the runoff.
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When I was a kid, the democrats paid $1 for votes.....inflation has been terrible or is $15 now considered a "living bribe"?
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I wonder why this hasn't hit the broadcast news.
It's on very few internet outlets.....mostly blogs.
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God I hope this is true. I was called a R name because I said they did what the reverends told them to do.
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Family of Tea Party leader arrested in Senate race scandal plans lawsuit after apparent suicide
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/03/family-tea-party-leader-arrested-in-senate-race-scandal-plans-lawsuit-after/?intcmp=trending
WASHINGTON – Several pending legal battles are emerging in connection with the dramatic Mississippi Republican Senate race, including a lawsuit FoxNews.com is told is being prepared by the family of a local Tea Party leader who died in an apparent suicide days after the election.
The June 24 runoff race pitted six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran against Tea Party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel, after neither candidate clinched the GOP nomination in the June 3 primary. The runoff was called for Cochran.
McDaniel, though, has refused to concede and is trying to build a case to challenge the outcome over claims of voter fraud.
But on the sidelines, another legal battle is brewing over the death of Mark Mayfield, a real estate lawyer and vice president of the Central Mississippi Tea Party.
Mark Mayfield's death comes when Chris McDaniel is challenging the primary.
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Why would he kill himself?
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Why would he kill himself?
The article said he was shamed. I wonder if it was not suicide.
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And it's done :thatsright: I can't believe they got away with that. It's like gas prices, the higher we get the mire acclimated to it. Same with all this dishonest govt