You remember how Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel vs. Thad Cochran has been the craziest race in America so far? I mean, it’s not every race that involves four arrests for sneaking into a nursing home to photograph a candidate’s wife.
And the candidate made a run-off against the incumbent?
When the goings get weird the political pros get weirder.
The Hinds County Sheriff’s Department is investigating why three people, including a high-ranking Chris McDaniel campaign official, were found locked in the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson hours after an election official says the building was closed early Wednesday morning.
No, really. Three people, each having a different story about how it happened. And, boy howdy, they are Tres Amigos with some evil intent on their agenda.
There’s Janis Lane, Scott Brewster and Rob Chambers.
Lane is a member of the board of directors of the Central Mississippi Tea Party.
Chambers is a consultant with the Mississippi Baptist Christian Action Commission who has worked with McDaniel and members of the Senate Conservative Coalition to fight Common Core.
Brewster is a former coordinator of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s Mississippi operation and is currently McDaniel’s campaign coalition coordinator.
That makes the worse walk-into-a-bar joke ever. A Tea Party organizer, a Baptist, and a political operative walk into a bar…. They drink all the liquor, steal the cash register and shoot out the security camera.
Get this: They were locked inside the courthouse until 3:45 am when everybody else left at 11:30. Mark my word — there was either hanky panky or devil worship going on.
With the rate that Chris McDaniel’s political operatives are getting arrested, they ought to name one of the prisons after him.
Here’s the latest —
Hinds County Republican Executive Chairman Pete Perry said he had serious concerns about the incident.
“I don’t care who it is. I have a concern with someone being in the courthouse with all the election material down there,” Perry said.
Perry said everyone left the courthouse by 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and locked up.
He said he got a phone call from Lane around 2 a.m. Wednesday saying two people, including her, were locked inside the courthouse and were looking for a way out.
Perry said Lane was a precinct worker and had dropped off her ballot materials about 8:30 p.m. Perry said some precinct information wasn’t sealed.
Honey, leave me, Thelma, and Verdelia alone with the ballots for a few hours and I could be President of the United States. Or, hell, Queen of the World – my rightful title.
Ya know, this might be worth a road trip to Biloxi just to watch in person.
Thanks to Mike for the heads up.