COCHRANS CAMPAIGN IS SOOOO BUSTED!!! Listen to the audio link below! [Also, the Red State write-up is here: redstate/2014/06/30/breaking-new-allegations-point-cochran-campaign-mississippi-senate-vote-buying-scandal/] From GotNews: A black reverend stiffed by the Cochran campaign has exposed an alleged criminal conspiracy by Cochran staffers to commit massive voter fraud ahead of Tuesdays 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 Meridians 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 Mississippis 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. Read more at gotnews/
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 02:21:44 +0000
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