Reverend Steve Fielder, a pastor at the First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Meridian, Mississippi, is accusing Senator Thad Cochran’s campaign of violating election laws by giving black Democratic voters cash in exchange for votes in the recent GOP runoff. But mainstream media seem uninterested in the story.
The only outlet outside of conservative media covering the story is Forbes magazine. On July 1, the magazine explained what the penalties might be if Fielder’s allegations prove true.
“If true,” Forbes wrote, “such an action would be clearly illegal under both federal law and Mississippi statutes, specifically MS Code 97-13-1; MS Code 97-13-3 (2013) (Federal Code 18 U.S.C. 597, U.S.C. 1973i(c)), each punishable by a prison sentence of up to five years.”
As Forbes notes, on Monday Breitbart New Network’s Matthew Boyle reported that Fielder claimed that the Cochran campaign paid black voters $15 for each vote in the GOP runoff primary held on June 24.
Fielder alleged that the Cochran campaign “told me to offer blacks $15 each and to vote for Thad.”
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the silence of the msm on the fed gov corruption has to make you say, “what’s in it for the msm to cover up for the fed gov corruption”?
“wouldn’t the msm be more profitable and sell more papers or attract a larger audience if they exposed the corruption with the zeal we all know they have”?
inquiring minds want to know.
The msm won’t run the story because Thad had to hire democrats to cheat for him. the last thing the media wants is a story about how republicans can’t cheat on their own.
We really are outcasts in our own country. Heck, not even Reince Preibus, Chairman of the Republican Party, has come around to describe the Cochran/ Barbour activities as despicable, even though a majority of the actual Republicans that voted, voted for McDaniel.
Or perhaps it will shine a little too much light on what democrats have been doing for years already?
@Bill – I hope your sarc key was pressed when you typed that. 😉
Why can’t the folks just saunter back to the shade of ol’ Magnolia? They can’t see that Col. Thad’s benevolence is far-reaching. Don’t stir up an old dust cloud of trouble. Let Uncle Thad, allegedly, keep ’em on the plantation. While he lives with his staffer as his wife lays dying. Vote for me, baby!
Surprise over their failure to cover? Really?
Hell, I’d be surprised if they covered it at all.
Media trying to make this obvious fraudulent election stand.
It sounds crazy, but many Americans don’t really realize what’s really going on in our country because of the lack of news in msm. Nothing that would make any democrat look bad just doesn’t make into either the nightly news or the columns of newspapers across the country. I bet half of America would be shocked if they watched Fox News for a day or two and find out what really is going on. I can’t believe it, but there are still people who think that if it’s printed in a newspaper it must be correct.
“No Enemies on the Left” is the mantra of the socialists.
Until they have total control … and then it’s “Katie, bar the Door!”
PURGE TIME!
Happens every time, but the dummies still fall for it.
Bill, Bill, Bill…think Josef Göbbels.
When you’re PART OF THE CLUB, you don’t go breaking the rules.
Decades ago, Woodward and Bernstein got their enemy scalp, but then it was abused in the name of the “integrity” and “professionalism” of the propaganda machine.