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Constitutional Paulicy
07-02-2014, 04:23 AM
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Breaking Thad: Cochran Campaign Accused of Illegal Vote-buying
Tuesday, 01 July 2014 19:20
Written by Selwyn Duke


Writes Charles C. Johnson at GotNews.com:

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."

... 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.

... 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.

more here... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/18611-breaking-thad-cochran-campaign-accused-of-illegal-vote-buying

otherone
07-02-2014, 06:33 AM
They also warned that black Democrats “could lose food stamps, housing assistance, student loans, early breakfast and lunch programs and disaster assistance” if he were to become the Republican U.S. Senate nominee.

..They got that right, anyway...