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This reminds me of the old Pace Picante commercial - "New York City!!" Fund development.

A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS FROM MICHAEL BLOOMBERG?!?!?!?

MOTHER OF GOD.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. McDaniel camp, I am now ALL IN with you.

Anyone with even one red cent worth of dignity that considers themselves a conservative that would now vote for Thad in the runoff after he and Haley just took 250k from MR NANNY STATE I HATE ALL GUNS Bloomberg is the biggest fake/phony ever in the history of Mississippi!!!

You're wrong about $1.2 million from American Crossroads and $1 million from Main Street Advocacy. Just a little accuracy issue that may lessen how apoplectic McDonald's supporters will be when they read this. Unless the plan was to spike their heart rates, thus increasing pressure on their chicken-fried arteries, and bringing on an attack that could leave them bed-ridden for the runoff. If that was the ploy with the inflated numbers, then well-played Mr. Kingfish. Well-played, indeed.

Uh, where are you getting $1.2M from on Crossroads? Looks like it's just $160k. And even that's interesting given this: http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/04/rove-backed-american-crossroads-wont-get-involved-in-cochran-runoff/

B-b-but Thad Cochran IS still a conservative, right guys? Right?

I am reminded of the old adage that legislation (and PACs, apparently) is usually named after exactly what it isn't. I.e., the PATRIOT Act is not actually patriotic, the Stimulus act didn't really stimulate anything, and now, by all appearances, it looks like "Mississippi Conservatives PAC" are anything BUT conservative.

$355,000 from Mr. Sanderson Farm's? I promise you that is buying a yes vote on amnesty or any other kind of pro-immigration reform if Thad wins.

Check your math, Euclid.

8:40,

You forgot to add Farm Bill. That's where the real money is made.

Did the Cochran Campaign or the McDaniel Campaign file pre-primary reports? Interested in that analysis, too, and I'm too lazy to look it up.

So let's drill in on the expenditures, too.

$35,000 to Paradigm Public Relations. And who might that be?

Paradigm Public Relations = Pete Perry.

So the man responsible for conducting the Republican primary in Hinds County, and who slandered the McDaniel campaign for allegedly trying to tamper with ballots, IS ON COCHRAN'S PAYROLL.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pete-perry/8/574/11

Hey McDaniel guys -- "SPLAIN" to us your outrage over $5 MILLION in outside funding for your guy in the last days of the election (who knows what it is now), along with ALL the outside support from non Mississippians (e.g. Sarah Palin, Josh Duggar, Ron Paul, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, etc). (Small point - none of them live here nor WILL live here after the election so they really don't have a dog in this fight).

Where's your Mississippi support internally from people who work in Mississippi government every day, and understand the issues associated with your slash and burn policies, with regard to sending tax dollars out of the state (which we'll continue to do IF McDaniel is elected) and getting our money back.

CRICKETS?????????????

Methinks thou doest protest too much, and might want to back off this issue, based on living in a glass house.

The timing of the Bloomberg contribution is no accident. The contribution did not have to be reported until after the June 3rd election. No one anticipated there would be a runoff after the donation would have to have been reported. Just a classic example of a politician trying to hide some of his support.

Hmmm, 9:47, maybe you should step in for Thad in the debate he refuses to have. I love how Cochran's commercial says "Mississippi is worth fighting for"....its just not worth debating.

$35,000 to Paradigm Public Relations.

It is $60,000 total to Paradigm/Perry.

That's cute, 9:47. Like Thad lives here NOW.

Told ya! this goes further than Mississippi we saw the power come to life when Haley was in office. do you guys realize the power this man has? Scaryyyy......I read an article last night that Mississippi was rated as number one in government corruption. I'll see if I can find it and send later. and what is even more interesting is our auditors and investigators and Ag won't do a damn thing about it! Even if you do the work for them on corruptive concerns, they say they are too short staffed or they pass it to another agency until it comes full circle. Makes you wonder who's protecting who? Just remember who is really running ... is it TC or the napoleon syndrome guy holding on to his ankles? From an all-time TC supporter that has changed their vote.

Maybe Joe Sanderson is just trying to buy protection from "all kind of indecent things with [his] animals.”

I'm confused. Is this election for Cochran, Barbour, Lott, or Harper?

9:47, don't want to talk about campaign contributions? Even though your guy's proxy is the #1 out of state $ grabber? No problem. Let's talk about
-your guy not defunding Obamacare
-your guy is the pork king
-your guy can't seem to debate anyone unless Barbour and Harper are standing on either side
-your guy seems to have no damn problem with trillions in debt
-your guy touts specific industries in MS as if he did it himself, reminiscent of you-didn't-built-that.
-your guy can't seem to remember he's suppose to represent ALL of us, not just his 12 friends
-your guy has no problem with amnesty, seeing as his biggest mouthpiece is the lobbyist for Mexico
-your guy can't seem to stand up to anybody, including Obama and the libs
-your guy is begging the dems to vote for him, seeing that they have the exact same standing on the issues
-Your guy DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO RUN FOR REELECTION but a few people saw their damn gravy train ending and set all of this up.

Rest assured, I'm voting against Cochran. Its time to change the crap that been happening in DC.

TC gonna lose by at least 7 points. You heard it here first.

Meanwhile, Ricky Cole is having visions of being relevant at the next DNC meeting and Travis Childers is learning flight schedules to DCA. Thanks, McDonald's voters!

One thing I've noticed in reading all of these comments about the MS Senate race is that those pro-McDaniel comments seem to have issues with Cochran's performance, associations, or competency, but by and large seem to be respectful toward Cochran supporters.

Those pro-Cochran comments seem to have issues with McDaniel's inexperience, but are universally insulting towards McDaniel's supporters.

I couldn't have scripted a better way to alienate a large swath of conservative voters from the Republican party if I tried.

10:29 --- Well - you have proven that the best defense is a good offense.

Now -- you've touted all those attacks -- prove your points with facts. Cannot just throw something against the wall and see if it sticks. Rhetoric rhetoric, rhetoric -- give us links, websites, etc. (not just those out of state TP ones).

Important note: You also said you're voting AGAINST Cochran -- but didn't say you were voting FOR McDaniel. I'm assuming since none of us know what he stands for, beyond God, Country, Slash the Debt, Prayer, Babies, etc. etc. -- you know exactly what his plan is and can specifically outline it for us. That would surely be the reason you are backing him.

Long on rhetoric short on facts.

11:22 -- Exactly -- on boys on -- into the Bloody Angle at Gettysburg -- 11th MS forward......and let's take another 150 years to recover from this election too!

So Pete Perry's company, Paradigm Government Relations, gets $60,000 from Haley Barbour to help support Cochran.

Okay Kingfish. Where's the headline announcing "60,000 Pieces of Silver Can Buy A Lot of Outrage"? Isn't this information highly relevant to your threads about the Courthouse lock-in?

Regardless, how is that Pete Perry and Connie Cochran (Thad's sister-in-law) are in charge of the Hinds County Republican vote count? If Perry is going to accept $60,000 from one side in a highly contested election, should he not recuse himself? At the very least, should he not have disclosed this relationship? (And if he did, when was that disclosure reported on this blog?)

Today is the deadline for the Republicans to report the final June 3 tally. Should we expect surprises?

Connie Cochran has done nothing wrong. No one from the McDaniel campaign has accused her of anything, either out loud or in quiet little whispers.

Mr. Perry is a big boy and can defend himself.

The party's run the primaries. I don't know what the bylaws are regarding such arrangements. I suspect he will be along here at some point to write something.

Cochran was asked about Cantor losing in VA. He didn't know anything about it or seem to understand why it could be significant to his runoff chances.

Don't know if Thad should win or not, but it seems clear he's not "into it" any longer.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3621123114001

Okay Kingfish. Where's the headline announcing "60,000 Pieces of Silver Can Buy A Lot of Outrage"? Isn't this information highly relevant to your threads about the Courthouse lock-in?

Mighty reasonable and fair question.

If Perry is going to accept $60,000 from one side in a highly contested election, should he not recuse himself?

Other GOP officials in other MS counties have recused or temporarily stepped down in similar situations.

Thanks for the link, @12:27, but in that video, Cochran was asked for his thoughts about what happened in Virginia. While the McDonald's crowd instantly thinks about Cantor losing, the rest of the world understands that "Virginia" refers to an entire state with limitless things that could have happened. When the reporter clarified that he meant Cantor's race, Cochran said he didn't follow that campaign. I know what you want the video to show, but you don't quite have it. Still, no reason to let facts get in the way this late in the game since the McDonald campaign hasn't thus far.

Good spin 1:17 PM but not effective.

Nice try, indeed. Thad should have stepped down with dignity and not let his handlers push him into a fight he is not vital enough to win.

1:23 -- 1:17's analysis seems pretty reasonable to me, based on the totality of the interview. Might want to read and LISTEN to the entire interview. Get off the merry-go-round yourself.

Not even close to good spin. I would imagine that every long-time, go-along-to-get-along Senator in Washington immediately knows what a question about what happened in Virginia is about. Unless, of course, they really aren't that in touch.

Come on 1:17 pm. Your defense of Cochran's response is ridiculous. I thought maybe this was like Haley Barbour misrepresenting what McDaniel said about federal education funding. Then I went and watched the video myself. It's at: http://video.foxnews.com/v/3621123114001/embattled-senator-says-hes-unaware-of-cantors-loss/#sp=show-clips

It's not. Thad Cochran clearly is uninformed about Eric Cantor's loss - the first primary loss by a majority leader since the 1800's. Eric Cantor lost to a Tea Party insurgent. Thad Cochran is facing a Tea Party insurgent. You would think Cochran would know something about the Cantor-Brat race, if only to be able to assure his supporters not to worry, that the Virginia race is different.

In any event, a US Senator needs to have the mental ability and political skills to turn around any question into a positive. What if Cochran had said, " Mr. Cantor strongly favored amnesty for illegal aliens. I have serious reservations about giving illegals amnesty" OR "I'm told Mr. Cantor had lost touch with his district and wasn't willing to do the hard work it takes to get reelected - to see the people and listen to their concerns. That's why I'm here and at 76 campaigning so hard. I want to let the citizens of the great state of Mississippi know I'm looking out for them. I've worked hard for the last 36 years to make sure Mississippi has a seat at the table and I'll keep working hard to bring to our state all the help our government affords it's businesses and citizens. I'm in a position to help Mississippi prosper and I will."

If a guy who's been in Congress for 41 years can't come up with something like that on the fly, what use is he?

Cochran said he hadn't heard about Eric Cantor's defeat. Huh??? Name one person who didn't see coming a question attempting to compare the Cochran-McDaniel race to the Cantor-Brat race? In fact, Cochran got two do-over's by the reporter - something no conservative ever gets. Cochran was re-asked the question twice giving him two chances after the initial question to think of something intelligent to say. The fact that he couldn't and the fact that his staff clearly had not prepared him for this obvious question is troubling.

The brain trust over at Team Cochran is looking a little slow on the uptake while those unsophisticated TEA folks seem to have hit their stride.

I thought Trent Lott had been in a nursing home since Katrina. Maybe I have my participles mixed up. Anyway, I see he is alive and well and has endorsed Thad as well as Ronny Lott. The latter Lott is running for Madison County Chancery Clerk.

Ronny has just signed (see elsewhere on this blog) one of those 'I promise to remain a virgin' pledges, swearing that he will not vote to raise taxes (like the elder Bush did).

I don't hang around the courthouse much, but, if that plege is in regard to his current campaign for office, someone tell me what a Chancery Clerk votes on anyway. Ever.

In light of Cackroon's tepid/timid position on immigration, the 'donation' from Sanderson Farms is indeed interesting.

The chicken-pluckers of this state use more illegals than all the Mexican restaurants in America combined.

The real catch-22 is, as much as Obama/Holder would LOVE to bust up in some of these places in The South, they can't for fear of endangering their own position and lack of policy regarding illegals.

Of course Thad's camp is so blinded by his support a decade ago for Katrina funding that they can't bother with his blind eye toward immigration.

WHY IS THERE NO headline about Thads comments re: animal funny stuff?!!! I seriously can't believe you would ruin your integrity for this!!! You had such a good reporting record. Please explain why you would be so late coming to the table with this,...Other than the Cochran and Trent adds,.......oh wait.....

2:48 - Canton might have been the first Majority Leader to be defeated since the 1800's but the price of those eggs as a statistic is not particularly significant. In 1990s the Speaker (yes, for the uninformed, that is a higher office than ML) from Washington - Tom Foley - was defeated in his reelection bid. Granted, its not relevant to this conversation, but neither was yours.

Hey McDaniel succup 9:43. I'm not about to defend Perry here, but "slandered McDaniel campaign for trying to tamper with ballots"? I've seen Perry on several tv newscasts, and read his comments in the paper and havn't seen him accuse the cat burgalars of trying to tamper with the ballots. He has wondered what they were doing, but so have I.

Diss him all you want, I don't care. But don't continue your campaign bullcrap of making up stories to cover up for your stupid misdeeds.

5:25 - the largest immigration bust in the state, actually in the country, was by McDaniel homeboy and contributor. Be careful which stones you want to throw and where you aim them. Ask your pretty boy about Howard.

The Howard Industries bust came shortly after Trent Lott was deposed. Trent Lott must have had some dirt on someone, for ICE not to have acted before Lott's resignation. Oddly enough, Cackroon was touring the Siemens production plant in Jackson within the past week. An employee of Siemens told me that plant had idle production machines that could produce the transformer windings, etc., but that they were prohibited from hiring illegal alien workers; Siemens pays its workers well and was unable to compete in that market.
McDaniel should set the record straight on the untouchable Free State of Jones being the Mecca for the hiring illegal alien workers. workers.

- your guy Chris McDaniel Won't directly take questions
- your guy speaks in pre determined platitudes
- your guy surrounds himself with inept people
- your guy has really creepy security guys
- your guy will not do jack squat for Mississippi
- your guy is an embarrassment to OUR state
- we have had enough already of ....your guy

Siemens is a union shop, for whatever that's worth.

And now we are to blame McDaniel for Howard Industries employing illegals? You might recall (or you probably won't) that the personnel manager was Mexican and supposedly had documentation on these hires, albeit counterfeit. Nobody was charged but him and his sentence was light.

That had, nor has, nothing to to with McDaniel. It's undeniable that the chicken industry employs thousands of illegals in this state and tens of thousands across the state. I'm not sure that's Thad's fault, but HIS non-position on the subject is certainly in that industry's favor. Don'tcha think?

I intend to vote for McDaniel and don't blame him for Howard Industries knowingly hiring of the illegal aliens to work at its plant in Laurel/Ellisville, nor Wayne Farms for knowlingly hiring of illegals to run the killing plants in South Mississippi. But every man on the street knew that Howard was denying employment to local citizens, in order to hire illegals. I think that there was a class action suit to that effect after the ICE raids and deportations. So do we encourage a German company to come to our State and pay good wages, and then look the other way when a local businessman with connections to Lott and Cochran seeks out illegal aliens that work on the cheap? I am curious as to know what Howard expects from McDaniel when he donates to a political campaign that intends to make "immigration" an issue,
wouldn't you. Has anyone proof that McDaniel receives financial support from Howard Industries?

Correction re my 10:55 post: " It's undeniable that the chicken industry employs thousands of illegals in this state and tens of thousands across the SOUTH".

I would think illegal immigration would be a dangerous topic in MS especially after Katrina.

But, hypocrisy and ignorance makes it a great topic.

Maybe y'all saw repairs and construction going on without an Hispanic working on the crews but I rarely did.

Wonder if the McDaniels had any roof damage and who did the work?

Who mows their property?

Do they ever eat out? And see who is in the kitchen?

Anybody buying produce or meat at the grocery store?

Anybody seen any Hispanic looking housekeepers in the homes of Republicans AND Democrats their vicinity? No? Blind , are we?

Ever wonder why neither party ever tries to reform the Immigration Service and change the laws so they can be more easily enforced but instead the focus is always on the illegals already here?

Want to get tough? How about proof of birth in the USA to get a job or to avail oneself of any government funded service and getting the Social Security Administration and IRS to report duplicate SS numbers and throwing a few employers hiring illegals in jail?

And, let's not face the Hispanic vote in national elections.

It's because one side is playing to the threatened working class while knowing they don't know enough about how things work to keep the wealthy from being able to keep Rosita as their housekeeper or Juan at the business. And, they suspect deep in working guy's heart he'd rather have an Hispanic working in his home than an African American. They are lots scarier, right?

Can we have a dumber debate than the one we keep repeating on immigration? We've got " our country was built on immigration and the Statute of Liberty should read 'y'all come' " on one side and "let's build a fence" on the other. And, nobody really wants to say that our immigration laws aren't just about Hispanics even after Boston.

Y'all just continue to bitch and pretend your anti illegals guy is actually going to DO something and has said what that might be!

A typical example of how the killing plants see their workers, is the case of an illegal immigrant that was working on the killing floor of the Marshall Durbin plant in Hattiesburg a few years ago. On a drinking and swimming weekend, a Mexican worker from the Durbin plant dove into shallow waters, resulting in a broken neck and paralyzed from the neck down and died a few days later. After it was determined that he was in the county illegally, Durbin refused to pay the cost of sending his body back to his family in Mexico for burial. The local Lutheran Church in Hattiesburg raised funds to return his remains back to Mexico.

Chatter on 7:08. Your suggestions are so generic as to apply in any village in America, yet nothing specific. You people always chatter about hypotheticals.

Newsflash: Millions of people not born in this country are legally able to work here. So much for that suggestion.

Newsflash: Any employer in MS having over a hundred employees already uses e-verify. That program, as broken as it is (its federal) is the employers' permission, if you will, to employ applicants who present certain pieces of documentation.

Besides; the debate on this blog is not about immigration as a general national issue...the issue here is Cackrun's blinders regarding the subject of immigration. That was Cantor's downfall too. Watch for it.

But...Cackrun 'fought' for Katrina money a decade ago. Hell, what fight? Nobody opposed it. He's pandering.

Newsflash: employers are precluded from discriminating against (refusing to hire) people who present documentation of their eligibility to work, so long as the documentation seems legitimate.

The employer cannot ask for additional ID beyond the minimum established by law, even if the person doesn't speak english or is obviously not from the US.

It is illegal to discriminate based on NATIONALITY, race, etc.

E-verify is great and has done a good job of reducing the number of illegals working here, but jobs are not the only thing drawing illegal aliens into the US. Look at the 60,000 - 90,000 women and children that are pouring into the US now... so fast that USCIS can't process them fast enough.

The president's refusal to deport and talk of amnesty is the draw. Not jobs.

7:31 Pm if you are going to post, try posting the truth.You said,
"your guy Chris McDaniel won't directly take questions"
I am calling B.S. on this. I was at a get together with Chris last evening at Berry's in Florence and he stood and answered questions from everyone who wanted to ask about anything.As far as the rest of your post goes, it too is pure B.S. posted by another of Thad's fearful supporters who knows that he is going to lose.
The question to the voters should be, Do you want your next U.S. Senator elected or appointed by Phil?

" Durbin refused to pay the cost of sending his body back to his family in Mexico for burial. The local Lutheran Church in Hattiesburg raised funds to return his remains back to Mexico. "

So, a charitable organization stepped up and did something, uh, charitable? I believe that's part of the reason they are tax-exempt organizations in the first place - this whole "charity" thing wherein private citizens (alone or together) can help out someone in need. And you've got a problem with that? Strange.

I don't know any company that feels obligated to clean up a mess made by an employee on his/her own time, off the company premises, and especially when it involves alcohol and pathetically poor judgement (as you state). They don't do it for US citizens working for them, so why should they for an, ahem "undocumented alien"?

"Durbin refused to pay the cost of sending his body back to his family in Mexico for burial."

So, he got drunk on his own time and off of company property, and used incredibly poor judgement by diving into shallow water. Why is the predictable result the company's responsibility?


"The local Lutheran Church in Hattiesburg raised funds to return his remains back to Mexico. "

That sounds like the very reason churches are tax-exempt - because they perform acts of charity, using money freely donated by private citizens. Why is that a problem for you?

Exactly, 8:58! It is also illegal to require an applicant, even upon hire to present a driver license as proof of identification. There are specific types of documentation that will suffice for the purposes of (1) identification and (2) right to work in the United States.

Too many of the uninformed and wilfully ignorant actually believe the problem is employers up and down the street who collar Mexicans and put them on the payroll in order to get off cheap. That's not accurate.

I agree; Why would an employer be obligated to ship a body back to a country of origin. If I died on the job, would my employer be obligated to ship my body back to Germany? Why hell no!

The fact remains; this is not about national immigration policy or lack thereof. It's about Thad Cochran not giving one whit in shitville about illegals penetrating our borders by the hundreds of thousands.

It just goes to prove the absurdity of the SCOTUS ruling that corporations are people.

Maybe the costs of sending the deceased undocumented worker's remains back to his family in Mexico could be borne by debiting his earnings suspension file ?

It is also illegal for an employer to require an applicant or new hire to produce a Social Security card for purposes of identification or right to work, under immigration regulations.

There are hundreds of street-corner mills churning out 'official' documents that you canNOT discern from the originals. Even government agents have been stumped by some of them.

But, for sure, let's find a way to blame Chris McDaniel for these problems. After all, Thad worked hard on Katrina.