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Since he has no home in MS, maybe all this is to buy him a worthy estate where he can spend his "Golden" years.

If he doesn't run, Austin & Henry will give the money to black radio stations.

Thad barely knows his own name. He'll be lucky to live through this term.

The man is a millionaire, thanks to porking the rest of us for almost half a century. It's obscene for him to have a fund-raiser.

Hope they pack in enough grass and straw to feed all those RINOs.

Kay has a place on the coast she bought during the post-Katrina distress period. She's also been voting down there. Now the question is has she also voted in the District? Hmmm.

This can't be! I thought y'all told us Cochran was retiring in 2015 and was only running for reelection so that Bryant could appoint someone (himself or Harper) to replace Cochran.

Everyone knows he isn't running again. Like most big campaigns he likely has campaign debt and I assume is raising money to pay that off.

Get real. This is nest egg building not recharging his campaign war chest. He'll pay off any remaining loans and bank the remainder.

The retirement timing 10:29 was never 2015. He's heading off at the juncture which gives the RINO appointee the maximum advantage prior to 2020.

@9:34 idiot. Cochran has a nice house in Oxford. Has had it for years. You and McD can continue your lies as long as you want to, but just like your boy Trump, lies are lies - especially when the facts are easily proven.

Joe Sanderson just wants his illegal aliens chicken pluckers and he'll grease every skid possible to keep the border invasion spigot on full bore.

Unlike in Mississippi, Federal candidates can't keep campaign funds or spend them on personal expenses, so unless he personally loaned his campaign money that has not been repaid, there is no personal gain he can derive from a fundraiser. He can, of course, use a war chest to support other candidates.

Yes, 11:13 but please do a bit, well a lot, more research on your end because there are a myriad of ways leftover Federal campaign funds can be used to benefit a retiring Legislator.

There is indirect personal gain but being a Cochran apologist go ahead and pretend otherwise. I'll bet you also think black Democrat votes weren't purchased, that Thad lived in Kay's basement and that she wasn't passed off as Thad's "wife" on all those foreign junkets. LMAO

Thad is a disgrace. He has used his position to enrich himself and others, with our tax money.

Nice way to build a "PAC" type fund to support the types of Republican candidates that Cochran would support. This is starting to build a war chest for the coming lengthy clash between the Barbour wing of the party and the McDaniel wing of the party.

... because there are a myriad of ways leftover Federal campaign funds can be used to benefit a retiring Legislator.

Senator Geritol can kick his unused funds it into a PAC and/or convert 'Citizens for Thad Cochran' into a PAC. Once the money gets into a PAC it is party time!

Love that donors list, it contains the names of all the multi-millionaire creeps in Mississippi that wanted to raise the gas taxes of our $10 dollar an hour population to build and fix nicer roads for their company vehicles to travel daily.

Can someone please turn off the Interwebs in Jones County for the rest of the week? It would be good for us, of course, but also very beneficial for them.

Come pay homage to ol' Thad. Boss Hogg and the MSGOP will be keeping score. The organizers forgot to mention that for a $25,000 love gift you can come to DC and spend the night in Kay's basement.

The sponsorship list for the Bolivar County rundraiser is just as interesting. A bunch of good ole boys still spending they daddies' cash. The resumes of these goofballs are interesting and they all have aspirations.

What will $50,000 buy me?

Haley? Henry? Austin?

@7:38 - send in your check and find out. but of course, your check won't make it even if you move the decimal place over three places .

#dinosaur

Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who has called for an end to this corruption.

Is Thad really still alive? Every time I saw him he had someone propping him up and holding him. I will have to look for both hands on the holder the next time. If one hand is hidden I know where it is.

Well I guess it's true that no good deed goes unpunished - what a bunch of ungrateful ignoramuses! Most of these comments are indicative of Mississippi's low standing in the nation. Cochran has done more for your state's population and prosperity than you will ever accomplish in your meaningless, dead-end careers. Just wait until you are represented by some low-ranking junior senator instead of the Chairman of Appropriations. You should be far more concerned about the current leadership circus in your state. But, hey, now you can carry a gun into your LGBT-free churches. Mississippi: Making America Great Again!...

Sounds like @10:50 AM has a serious concerns about our low-ranking junior senator Roger Wicker.

10:50 - Even on the chance that you are correct, does that justify a fund-raiser for a multi-millionaire who is arguably at the end of his career with no need to mount a campaign or pay bills?

Hell, the Senate and WE have been paying for him to travel the world with his 'landlord' for years. What does he need money for now?

Get off of it about Mrs. Kay. She is a fine person, and she and the Senator were most respectful of the first Mrs. Cochran, God rest her soul. They deserve every happiness. Sickening that she was so taken advantage of by the opposing campaign. Also, God bless the soul of the gentlemen who took his own life as a result. Such a horrible and unbelievable tragedy! I hope those of you making such accusations have checked your own closets and mirrors for signs of hypocrisy. Move along.

It is the last payoff @5:54 for Republican services rendered, not a fund-raiser.

Feel better now, 6:49. You're little schmarmy lesson in morality and mirror gazing is nothing but self-serving hypocrisy. The prior Miz Cochran (God rest her soul) had no idea her husband was living with his (now) wife for all those years.

How in the name of hell can you call their cavorting 'respectful'? The prior Miz Cochran wasn't taken advantage of by anybody other than her husband and his 'landlady'. And all on our dime, including the bill at Catholic-Towers Nursing Home.

Some people have no morals. They will even defend someone who takes advantage of their sick wife.

"Mrs. Kay" may be a fine person but that in no way ameliorates Thad Cochran's decades long deception of Mississippi voters regarding his fidelity and the truth behind his "arrangement" with Webber. The living in the basement lie while openly presenting himself out on the DC town as half a romantic pair with his landlord/staffer is farcical. Even Bennie Thompson knew what was going on headlining fundraisers at Webber's house with the happy loving couple.

There are no lengths the establishment Republicans will not go to retain their power. The Mississippi Republican Party is corrupt to its very core. Bennie knows this and used Thad's little secret as leverage while the MSGOP covered the other end of the political Quid pro quo by not helping any Republican ever running against Thompson.

Thad Cochran and his MSGOP enablers lied to Mississippi voters then and still are to this day. Period.

I have nothing but contempt for all of these folks who dare to interject themselves into Sen. and Mrs. Cochran, Rose Cochran, and the Cochran's children's relationship.

You are sick and disgusting.

You have broken the commandment of not bearing false witness. Gossip is a sin. Your comments are sinful.

Thad Cochran will go down as one of the best Senators from the State of Mississippi.

Your candidate, Chrissy McDaniel, would still be thinking about restoring electricity to half of Mississippi eleven years after the disaster.

When history is written accurately

Thad Cochran "will go down" as an adulterer

who fooled Mississippi voters for nearly 20 years

about his special relationship with

Kay Webber.

10:50 said, "Just wait until you are represented by some low-ranking junior senator instead of the Chairman of Appropriations." I'll take energy, Integrity and a sharp mind over lethargy, moral indiscretion, and weak mindedness. If only Mississippi could get a senator like Ted Cruz from Texas or Mike Lee from Utah.

6:24, Think about this for a minute. You are thumping your bible calling people sinners because they do not worship the same man you worship. The man you worship is the man who broke the most commandments. Do you remember the one about adultery? There are a few more he broke or bent all to hell.

Wow. The judgmental Christians are out in full force on this one. Let all the perfect Christians here judge Senator Cochran and the lady he married. Let all the perfect Christians here judge what a sinner the two of them are while they remain perfectly sinless and perfect. Look, I am a Christian and was raised right here in this state in the Baptist church and I was taught not to judge people because they sin differently than you do. Obviously, many people commenting here missed a couple of Sundays or think they do not sin. Good Lord.

... I was taught not to judge people because they sin differently than you do.

Nice twist. How about confession and forgiveness? Whaddya learn about that?

11:40, I have noticed that most Christians believe in the confession and forgiveness thing above everything else. They just do not see any need for them to confess and forgive. After all it is the other people who are the sinners.

@11:40 I learned plenty about it. I do believe we can be forgiven of all our sins. I have no idea, and guess what, neither do you sport, what Thad has confessed and asked to be forgiven for. Yet you sit right here and judge him to be sooooo much worse than you (and of course, McDaniel). And yes, call it a "twist" or whatever word you can think of but that doesn't change it.

That is the part about religion that I do not understand. A Christian can do anything they want to do then say "Sorry about that" and they are right back on the good side. For some reason that does not sound right to me.