Mississippi, I Love You
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.
Mama always said, “If’n you lay down with dawgs, you’re going to get fleas.” Right about now I’d say McDaniels, has more fleas on him than a pack of blue tick hounds! For what it is worth, he is also about as crooked as one of their hind legs!
1This has got to be a page from the script of a new 3 Stooges movie….
2Deb #1
3Is there any Rescummie anywhere that isn’t as crooked as a pig’s d–k?
Aren’t you glad that there are so many people doing really dumb stuff? If there weren’t so many of them, you’d have to start making stuff up.
4I was kinda getting depressed about Alabama a while ago(I was born there). 93 year old African American man was denied the vote, two young African-American men handcuffed to courtroom doors and left there, and a ministry serving African- American children putting up billboards quoting Hitler.
But then I remembered Mississippi . . . . .and thought about how the kind of crazy going on there has probably been happening quietly for a long long time too.
But its still too early for a cocktail.
5I keep expecting someone to look up at the camera and shout,
“Live from New York, It’s SATURDAY NIGHT!!!”
6Wonder who locked them in?
7Juanita, are you sure you want to do that President thing?
Henry Clay said, “”I had rather be right than be President.” To which Will Cuppy responded, “I would rather be almost anything than be President.”
8Clearly the “facts” are still unknown at this time, but I think we have a pretty fair idea of what was going on, so I will repeat myself, because I modestly think I bear repeating, often and at volume:
Once again the people committing election fraud are the ones complaining about people committing election fraud.
9The courthouse was apparently cleared, closed and locked at 11:30. The call that they were locked in was at 2:00.
They were let out at 3:45. Sounds like plenty of time to do … whatever they wanted to do.
Having been responsible for closing a building, I know it can be possible to purposely stay in a building after closing in most buildings even with careful closing. (And, No I will not tell readers how if you don’t already know.) But it is unlikely that someone who didn’t want to get locked in would unless the people responsible for closing were careless, which I can’t imagine in a courthouse after an election.
It seems to me, that despite the expense, the election should be done again.
10daChip, indeed, like the ones complaining most about the “homosexual agenda” have locked themselves in the closet–like the Mississippi teapartians locked in the courthouse.
11So she dropped off her ballots at 8:30, everybody else left and locked up at 11:30, and it took her until 2 AM to either figure this out or find her phone? And the other two still hadn’t? Oh, that’s plausible.
Some in the GOP are committing election fraud as hard as possible, or trying to, so they assume anybody else would too. How about we pass some heavy-duty laws against their kind of fraud and let the 93-year-old go ahead and vote?
While we’re at it, how about the electronic fraud and hacking of results that we don’t even know happened but easily could? Voter ID laws don’t do diddlysquat about that, and it could shift thousands of votes in one click.
12Oh, dang! This Mississippi thing is just gonna drag on and on. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are gonna make such hay as you have never seen! God bless politic! Snort!
13““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.”
Ya think????
14So, shall we now address you as Your Majesty, or will Queen JJ be sufficient?
15Okay. Slightly off topic, but…
Interesting JJ used a Blues Brothers “on a mission from God” reference. However, you will not believe who was in town today giving Hinds SO a new patrol car…
http://www.wjtv.com/story/25703828/caring-for-mississippi-actor-dan-aykroyd-buys-new-patrol-car-for-hinds-county
Yep, none other than Elwood himself. Come on JJ, you’re psychic, right?
😉
16So is the wingnut/tea party thingie incestuous or cannabalistic?
17I’m from that area and I’m not surprised.
I’m told that, decades ago, a ballot box somehow bounced out the back of a station wagon and landed in a bayou (because, of course, this all happened on a bridge).
Maybe they just couldn’t find a station wagon?
18JJ, I have a problem visualizing ‘hanky panky’. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to. Can we say that there was ‘skullduggery’ and/or devil worship going on? It doesn’t surprise me that Lane is a high ranking tea party person. She counts about as well as they spell. Angela @ 5, I feel your pain. I was born in Alabama and am still here. I just have to hang my head sometimes. To top things off, Parker Griffith won the Democratic primary for governor. I’d like to think that it is because a lot of republicans crossed over just to vote for him. I’d like to think that..
19Envisioning the whole thing….can’t you just smell the floor polish in the janitor’s closet?
20The reason Carl Rove couldn’t believe that Romney lost had to be because the fix was in, or so he thought.
21These good ole baggers were “fixin’ things.
Just Repug repairmen.
I can’t wait for round three! Does anyone want to take a bet on McDaniel getting arrested before the run-off?
22Grin. So who’s going to write the novel or make the movie about this one?
23When you find a fox in the hen house you can venture a pretty good guess about why it’s there.
24JJ- I’m not sure anything is worth a trip to Biloxi MS or anywhere else in that state for that matter. Comes to that you have my vote for queen of the world or anything else you might desire,but I’m not going to spend the night locked in a courthouse or any time in MS,to make sure you get it.
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