Buying V**es in the MS Runoff!
Jul 1, 2014 14:33:18 #
Massive v***r f***d in Cochran-McDaniel primary. Charles C.
Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert blow the lid off the v**e-buying scandal which lies at the heart of Thad Cochran's tainted victory over Chris McDaniel in the June 24 GOP Senate primary run-off e******n on June 24.
This story is the smoking gun. In fact, the smoke is so hot coming out of this gun it's melting the barrel. This is not just a smoking gun it's an exploding gun, blowing up right in the face of the Cochran campaign and the Barbour PAC that was behind this blatantly unethical and patently illegal scheme. Shrapnel is flying everywhere.
According to Johnson and Gilbert, black pastor Stevie Fielder of the First Union Missionary Baptist Church was hired by the Cochran campaign to pay b****s $15 a pop to v**e for Cochran in the run-off. Fielder admits he was deceived and manipulated and brainwashed by the Cochran camp into thinking that Chris McDaniel was a r****t. It was as if he had been convinced that v**e-buying was necessary to keep McDaniel from wearing his white hood on the floor of the United States Senate and burning crosses on the White House lawn.
According to Y'all Politics, Cochran campaign spokesman Jordan Russell has issued the following statement: "There is absolutely no t***h to these baseless and false allegations. It comes from a blogger who in the last 24 hours has accused a Mississippi public official of being responsible for an individual's death and had to retract other outlandish accusations regarding another Mississippi elected official. The author of this article [at GotNews.com] admits he paid his source for this story."
Fielder's testimony is of a piece with the reprehensible, race-baiting radio ads and flyers that were distributed in the black community in the run-up to June 24, tarring McDaniel and the Tea Party with wholly slanderous accusations of r****m.
By Fielder's admission, he personally distributed thousands of dollars by handing out pre-packaged envelopes he got from the Cochran campaign, each containing a $15 bribe for African-American v**ers. He picked up these envelopes in batches of 20 at a time and distributed them door to door until he ran out and went back for more.
Writes Matthew Boyle at Breitbart (emphasis mine),
Fielder, who was paid by freelance journalist Charles C. Johnson for the story, provided a new outlet launched by Johnson GotNews.com with four text messages from a person purporting to be Cochran campaign staffer Saleem Baird.
The messages cite an official Cochran campaign email address Saleem@ThadForMs.com and include detailed discussions of the campaign providing envelopes of money to distribute to people who v**e.
"Send me individual names and amounts along with home address to saleem@thadforms.com and I'll have money separated in envelopes at the office waiting for you," one message, sent three days before the runoff, says.
This scandal should be game over for Sen. Cochran's senatorial career, and game over for the Barbour PAC that hatched this misbegotten and immoral scheme.
At the very minimum, the e******n results from June 24 should be tossed in the nearest landfill and a new run-off e******n scheduled.
According to Boyle, state law requires that any candidate whose campaign is found guilty of v**e-buying is to be disqualified. This would make Chris McDaniel the GOP nominee without spending a boatload of taxpayer money on another run-off e******n. He would instantly be the favorite to become the next senator from the state of Mississippi. That looks from here to be the path of justice.
The entire Johnson-Gilbert article is worth the read, and the entire interview with Pastor Fielder is worth a listen (see video below). Here are the highlights (emphasis and minor typographical edits mine throughout):
Cochran Campaign Manager, Staffer Busted in Illegal V**e Buying Operation
Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert
Democrat black reverend, who brought "hundreds" to the polls for promise of payment, exposes alleged massive v***r f***d, v**e buying operation by Cochran campaign.
A black reverend stiffed by the Cochran campaign has exposed an alleged criminal conspiracy by Cochran staffers to commit massive v***r f***d ahead of Tuesday's controversial U.S. Senate Republican runoff e******n 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 b****s to the polls after being offered money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a r****t. "They [the Cochran campaign] told me to offer b****s fifteen dollars each and to v**e for Thad."
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 b****s that McDaniel was a r****t and promising them $15 per v**e. "They sold me on the fact that he was a r****t 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 v**e cash bribery scheme to target members of the black community.
"They said they needed black v**es," said the Reverend Fielder on the phone. He says Baird told him to "give the fifteen dollars in each envelope to people as they go in and v**e. 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 v**e."
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.
Fielder said that Saleem Baird was doing the same thing with people all over the state. Fielder believes that the r****t charge against McDaniel and the promise of $15 a v**e motivated 'thousands' of black Democrats like him to v**e for Cochran in the runoff. When asked if Fielder would have been more suspicious of Baird's promises had he been white, Fielder replied, "Yes, definitely."
For his efforts, Fielder says the Cochran campaign and Baird promised him $16,000 for paying black v**ers $15 a v**e, but Baird wound up stiffing him. Baird even asked him to delete all texts between the two of them. In addition to Baird, Fielder says he spoke with Kirk Sims, the Cochran campaign manager, and a woman named "Amanda" with the campaign, most likely Amanda Shook, director of operations to re-elect Thad Cochran. All refused to pay him the agreed upon amount of $16,000.
Baird realized he had been lied to when he "took a good look at the campaign ads" and realized "McDaniel was not a r****t...me and other people were misguided and misled."
Fielder confronted Saleem the weekend before the e******n and asked about whether or not McDaniel was actually a r****t and Baird confirmed it. Baird 'personally confirmed that McDaniel was a r****t." Baird 'manipulated me to manipulate many other people," says Fielder.
Baird did not disclose that he worked as a paid legislative staffer for Senator Roger Wicker. Fielder also says he spoke with campaign manager Kirk Sims about getting paid and about the ethical complaints he had.
Fielder is a Democrat but said he has v**ed for Republicans in the past. And though Fielder is being paid for his story by Got News, he says he'd come forward anyways. 'I thought what I did was wrong.' Fielder said he was motivated mostly by concerns that McDaniels was a r****t, not money.
As to what should happen next, 'definitely the e******n should not be allowed to stand,' says Fielder, who says he'll support McDaniel in the event of a special e******n. 'He's been done wrong. He's not what they said that he is.'
Were Baird found to have violated any laws in this matter, this would not be his first time he had a brush with the wrong side of the law. In 2011, Baird, who is a legislative staffer with U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, was allowed to keep his job with the senator after being arrested on charges of running an illegal strip joint in Jackson.
Bottom line: this is a game-changer. Anyone with an ounce of decency and any instinct whatsoever for justice will demand a thorough investigation and will call for a new, fraud-free run-off e******n or for Cochran to be disqualified. Chris McDaniel, his supporters, and every citizen in Mississippi, both black and white, deserve no less.
Bryan Fischer
Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert blow the lid off the v**e-buying scandal which lies at the heart of Thad Cochran's tainted victory over Chris McDaniel in the June 24 GOP Senate primary run-off e******n on June 24.
This story is the smoking gun. In fact, the smoke is so hot coming out of this gun it's melting the barrel. This is not just a smoking gun it's an exploding gun, blowing up right in the face of the Cochran campaign and the Barbour PAC that was behind this blatantly unethical and patently illegal scheme. Shrapnel is flying everywhere.
According to Johnson and Gilbert, black pastor Stevie Fielder of the First Union Missionary Baptist Church was hired by the Cochran campaign to pay b****s $15 a pop to v**e for Cochran in the run-off. Fielder admits he was deceived and manipulated and brainwashed by the Cochran camp into thinking that Chris McDaniel was a r****t. It was as if he had been convinced that v**e-buying was necessary to keep McDaniel from wearing his white hood on the floor of the United States Senate and burning crosses on the White House lawn.
According to Y'all Politics, Cochran campaign spokesman Jordan Russell has issued the following statement: "There is absolutely no t***h to these baseless and false allegations. It comes from a blogger who in the last 24 hours has accused a Mississippi public official of being responsible for an individual's death and had to retract other outlandish accusations regarding another Mississippi elected official. The author of this article [at GotNews.com] admits he paid his source for this story."
Fielder's testimony is of a piece with the reprehensible, race-baiting radio ads and flyers that were distributed in the black community in the run-up to June 24, tarring McDaniel and the Tea Party with wholly slanderous accusations of r****m.
By Fielder's admission, he personally distributed thousands of dollars by handing out pre-packaged envelopes he got from the Cochran campaign, each containing a $15 bribe for African-American v**ers. He picked up these envelopes in batches of 20 at a time and distributed them door to door until he ran out and went back for more.
Writes Matthew Boyle at Breitbart (emphasis mine),
Fielder, who was paid by freelance journalist Charles C. Johnson for the story, provided a new outlet launched by Johnson GotNews.com with four text messages from a person purporting to be Cochran campaign staffer Saleem Baird.
The messages cite an official Cochran campaign email address Saleem@ThadForMs.com and include detailed discussions of the campaign providing envelopes of money to distribute to people who v**e.
"Send me individual names and amounts along with home address to saleem@thadforms.com and I'll have money separated in envelopes at the office waiting for you," one message, sent three days before the runoff, says.
This scandal should be game over for Sen. Cochran's senatorial career, and game over for the Barbour PAC that hatched this misbegotten and immoral scheme.
At the very minimum, the e******n results from June 24 should be tossed in the nearest landfill and a new run-off e******n scheduled.
According to Boyle, state law requires that any candidate whose campaign is found guilty of v**e-buying is to be disqualified. This would make Chris McDaniel the GOP nominee without spending a boatload of taxpayer money on another run-off e******n. He would instantly be the favorite to become the next senator from the state of Mississippi. That looks from here to be the path of justice.
The entire Johnson-Gilbert article is worth the read, and the entire interview with Pastor Fielder is worth a listen (see video below). Here are the highlights (emphasis and minor typographical edits mine throughout):
Cochran Campaign Manager, Staffer Busted in Illegal V**e Buying Operation
Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert
Democrat black reverend, who brought "hundreds" to the polls for promise of payment, exposes alleged massive v***r f***d, v**e buying operation by Cochran campaign.
A black reverend stiffed by the Cochran campaign has exposed an alleged criminal conspiracy by Cochran staffers to commit massive v***r f***d ahead of Tuesday's controversial U.S. Senate Republican runoff e******n 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 b****s to the polls after being offered money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a r****t. "They [the Cochran campaign] told me to offer b****s fifteen dollars each and to v**e for Thad."
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 b****s that McDaniel was a r****t and promising them $15 per v**e. "They sold me on the fact that he was a r****t 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 v**e cash bribery scheme to target members of the black community.
"They said they needed black v**es," said the Reverend Fielder on the phone. He says Baird told him to "give the fifteen dollars in each envelope to people as they go in and v**e. 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 v**e."
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.
Fielder said that Saleem Baird was doing the same thing with people all over the state. Fielder believes that the r****t charge against McDaniel and the promise of $15 a v**e motivated 'thousands' of black Democrats like him to v**e for Cochran in the runoff. When asked if Fielder would have been more suspicious of Baird's promises had he been white, Fielder replied, "Yes, definitely."
For his efforts, Fielder says the Cochran campaign and Baird promised him $16,000 for paying black v**ers $15 a v**e, but Baird wound up stiffing him. Baird even asked him to delete all texts between the two of them. In addition to Baird, Fielder says he spoke with Kirk Sims, the Cochran campaign manager, and a woman named "Amanda" with the campaign, most likely Amanda Shook, director of operations to re-elect Thad Cochran. All refused to pay him the agreed upon amount of $16,000.
Baird realized he had been lied to when he "took a good look at the campaign ads" and realized "McDaniel was not a r****t...me and other people were misguided and misled."
Fielder confronted Saleem the weekend before the e******n and asked about whether or not McDaniel was actually a r****t and Baird confirmed it. Baird 'personally confirmed that McDaniel was a r****t." Baird 'manipulated me to manipulate many other people," says Fielder.
Baird did not disclose that he worked as a paid legislative staffer for Senator Roger Wicker. Fielder also says he spoke with campaign manager Kirk Sims about getting paid and about the ethical complaints he had.
Fielder is a Democrat but said he has v**ed for Republicans in the past. And though Fielder is being paid for his story by Got News, he says he'd come forward anyways. 'I thought what I did was wrong.' Fielder said he was motivated mostly by concerns that McDaniels was a r****t, not money.
As to what should happen next, 'definitely the e******n should not be allowed to stand,' says Fielder, who says he'll support McDaniel in the event of a special e******n. 'He's been done wrong. He's not what they said that he is.'
Were Baird found to have violated any laws in this matter, this would not be his first time he had a brush with the wrong side of the law. In 2011, Baird, who is a legislative staffer with U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, was allowed to keep his job with the senator after being arrested on charges of running an illegal strip joint in Jackson.
Bottom line: this is a game-changer. Anyone with an ounce of decency and any instinct whatsoever for justice will demand a thorough investigation and will call for a new, fraud-free run-off e******n or for Cochran to be disqualified. Chris McDaniel, his supporters, and every citizen in Mississippi, both black and white, deserve no less.
Bryan Fischer
Jul 1, 2014 15:16:03 #
15.00/v**e? Amazing how cheap something becomes when you spend your own money.. Typically it costs thousands of dollars in welfare to buy a v**e.
Jul 1, 2014 15:27:44 #
Time to wake up this is not just happening in Mississippi
Super Dave wrote:
15.00/v**e? Amazing how cheap something becomes when you spend your own money.. Typically it costs thousands of dollars in welfare to buy a v**e.
Jul 1, 2014 17:14:45 #
Super Dave wrote:
15.00/v**e? Amazing how cheap something becomes when you spend your own money.. Typically it costs thousands of dollars in welfare to buy a v**e.
then what are reps. using to buy v**es,you know thats not legal,they spending money like maybe their printing it ,hell look at what their already spending to dicredit clinton she may not even run but lookj at the money being spent how many jobs could be created,how many roads could be fixed
Jul 1, 2014 17:23:50 #
Ehhhh.. Considering the taxpayer money Obama gave to his campaign contributors with Obamacare, Stimulus, bonuses to corrupt/incompetent government agencies, and bloated budgets, perhaps you might feign a little outrage about something else for a while.
roy wrote:
then what are reps. using to buy v**es,you know thats not legal,they spending money like maybe their printing it ,hell look at what their already spending to dicredit clinton she may not even run but lookj at the money being spent how many jobs could be created,how many roads could be fixed
Jul 1, 2014 17:35:04 #
Was thinking the same thing, 15 bucks! Want can one buy with 15 bucks?
Super Dave wrote:
15.00/v**e? Amazing how cheap something becomes when you spend your own money.. Typically it costs thousands of dollars in welfare to buy a v**e.
Jul 1, 2014 17:35:08 #
So what is going to be done about it!!!!!! I'm tired of reading stories like this
And nothing been done!!!!!!!
And nothing been done!!!!!!!
Jul 1, 2014 17:57:18 #
Augustus Greatorex
Loc: NE
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Massive v***r f***d in Cochran-McDaniel primary. ... (show quote)
By Pastor Fielder's account there were hundreds of people doing the same thing. If no one else can be found to corroborate his story, it should be left where the Democrat lies.
Jul 2, 2014 03:58:53 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Massive v***r f***d in Cochran-McDaniel primary. ... (show quote)
So what else is new? SCOTUS has pretty much said that money in politics is fine and dandy. Why should advertising firms, TV and radio stations, be the only one's making money off of e******ns? Where do you think the multiple millions of dollars are being spent?
You know how it goes, a nice check in the offering plate, an "anonymous" donor to the police benevolent fund, or teachers slush fund, etc. Buying v**es, in one form or another, has been going on forever. Since SCOTUS has lost it's mind, anything goes.
Jul 2, 2014 10:41:59 #
lpnmajor wrote:
So what else is new? SCOTUS has pretty much said t... (show quote)
Ipnmajor: This Country has been passing laws in the interest of special groups for 100 years. Why pass laws your not willing to enforce...immigration..finance...e*******l...I can go on and on. The Constitution was founded upon moral steadfast principle...Since Hugo Black took morality out of law in 1949 things have gotten worse. As J.C. Watts has said: Polls measure feelings, not steadfast principle...polls ridiculed women's rights. embraced s***ery, and condemned the Ten Commandments! What we need to do is draw a line in the sand and separate right from wrong; not that it is important...but more importantly that our children can see it!!!!!!
Jul 2, 2014 11:14:59 #
I've seen this a few times already on different sources. If proven, this should get these results thrown out & force a new e******n. BTW, just want to mention the "help" RINO McCain gave his fellow RINO Cochran to push him to win. Time to kick them both out.
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Massive v***r f***d in Cochran-McDaniel primary. ... (show quote)
Jul 2, 2014 13:20:54 #
And for those who don't know who Hugo was.
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/ideas/portfolio/vandersee/vandersee.html
Laws are past but are meant for others to follow not the elected officials.
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/ideas/portfolio/vandersee/vandersee.html
Laws are past but are meant for others to follow not the elected officials.
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Ipnmajor: This Country has been passing laws in t... (show quote)
Jul 2, 2014 16:08:44 #
StillRational wrote:
I've seen this a few times already on different sources. If proven, this should get these results thrown out & force a new e******n. BTW, just want to mention the "help" RINO McCain gave his fellow RINO Cochran to push him to win. Time to kick them both out.
If this is true, why is it only on right wing blog posts. You need to question the veracity of this crap sometimes.
Jul 2, 2014 20:20:35 #
Super Dave wrote:
Ehhhh.. Considering the taxpayer money Obama gave to his campaign contributors with Obamacare, Stimulus, bonuses to corrupt/incompetent government agencies, and bloated budgets, perhaps you might feign a little outrage about something else for a while.
who nerver would sit down with obama when he tryed to get the republicans to sit down and talk about his healthcare plan,but wouldnt they went on recess,remember the town hall mettings the demacrates started having and all the people coming in hollering and rasing hell ,remember who paid them to do that ,the tea party was born with the help of carl rowe,and the koches, you want to talk a bout the stimulus we got roads built in my state or widened,and a lot of different projects,if republicans had been elected,yea they would have had a stimulus they would have give it to bussiness saying that would create jobs ,they would give the 1 percent and bussiness more tax breaks,and we wouldnt be know better off than we are today
Jul 2, 2014 21:48:34 #
Republicans were blocked after not agreeing to follow from a midnight v**e.
During the debate over the deeply flawed bill in 2009 and 2010, v**ers were repeatedly assured by President Obama and his congressional allies that everyone who liked their current health care plan would be able to keep it. Period.
Republicans didn't even see the final until is was v**ed on.
During the debate over the deeply flawed bill in 2009 and 2010, v**ers were repeatedly assured by President Obama and his congressional allies that everyone who liked their current health care plan would be able to keep it. Period.
Republicans didn't even see the final until is was v**ed on.
roy wrote:
who nerver would sit down with obama when he tryed... (show quote)
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