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" And down the stretch they come! Whap! The endlessly entertaining race for the Republican nomination in Mississippi seems to be gearing up for a Biblical dogs-and-cats--living together finale. In a race that&amp;#039;s already included cockfighting, elder-stalking, confessions by elderly incumbents of youthful indiscretions with farm animals, and people getting accidentally locked in overnight in places where ballots are stored, Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel have decided to bring in the pros from Dover for the grand finale. First, at their regular meeting, the Hinds County supervisors told the press that they still believe that there is something hinky about how three Tea Party supporters of the McDaniel campaign managed to get locked in the county courthouse on the night of the inconclusive primary election that led to the runoff next Tuesday. Scott Brewster, Janis Lane, and Rob Chambers are all supporters of State Senator Chris McDaniel. McDaniel, is running against incumbent U.S. Senator Thad Cochran in the Republican Primary run-off next Tuesday. The McDaniel campaign says they were there to watch the vote count on the night of the primary election. Investigators from the Hinds County Sheriff&amp;#039;s Department say, they were found locked in a common area of the courthouse. They say the three got in through a door that was either left propped open or was malfunctioning. At that same meeting, a county supervisor named Robert Graham told the media that the three had been let into the building by an unnamed &amp;quot;county official,&amp;quot; and Graham pronounced himself horrified at this blatant act of whatever it was. Upon hearing what Graham had said, the county constable, a McDaniel supporter named Jon Lewis, angrily retorted that he resembled that remark. Hinds County District 4 Constable Jon Lewis minced no words in responding to District 1 Supervisor Robert Graham&amp;#039;s insinuation that Mr. Lewis let three individuals into the courthouse on election night. Mr. Lewis sent Mr. Graham an email this afternoon that simply stated &amp;quot;screw you&amp;quot;. Well, all right then. Elsewhere, it seems that Mississippi Democrats are alleging that the Cochran campaign has been spreading around some cash in &amp;quot;walking around money&amp;quot;\u2014Hi there, Ed Rollins!\u2014and doing so through an operative named James &amp;quot;Scooby Doo&amp;quot; Warren, because there hadn&amp;#039;t yet been anyone named Scooby Doo involved in this hapless cartoon show of an election. James &amp;quot;Scooby Doo&amp;quot; Warren said he has put together a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) plan and is &amp;quot;putting it in place across the whole state.&amp;quot; Warren said he is not working with the Cochran campaign itself but for the PAC and Bishop Ronnie Crudup Sr. Crudup is the pastor at New Horizon Church, which shares an address and chief financial officer with a newly formed super PAC that ran print advertising in the primary supporting Cochran. When asked if he was getting any blow back for working in a Republican primary, Warren said he &amp;quot;got all that taken care of on the front end.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I called D.C. and told them what was going on with the tea party,&amp;quot; Warren said. &amp;quot;But I can&amp;#039;t do anything after the 24th because I&amp;#039;m a Democrat ... Whoever wins will have to deal with me in November.&amp;quot; In turn, the activities of Scooby Doo have attracted the attention ohttps://admin.hearstmags.com/admin/cm/articles/articlesHandlerLite?action=If our old friends True The Vote down in Texas, who apparently are now so fully recovered from the exhausting extra paperwork required of them by the tyrannical Obama IRS before True The Vote could qualify for a phony tax-exempt status that they can come meddling in Mississippi. (Disclaimer: True The Vote, of course, is not in any way a voter-suppression outfit. It merely advocates, as part of its charitable function under IRS regulations, policies that coincidentally result in fewer people voting who are likely to vote Democratic, especially black people.) True The Vote is, of course, outraged. (Apologies for the link to Breitbart&amp;#039;s Mausoleum For The Unemployable) Catherine Engelbrecht, the leader of an election integrity group called True The Vote, is now calling for an investigation into Perry&amp;#039;s actions. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re extremely troubled by what we&amp;#039;re hearing out of Hinds County Mississippi,&amp;quot; Catherine Engelbrecht, the head of True the Vote, told Breitbart News. &amp;quot;How can Mississippi voters have confidence in the integrity of the election if election officials are being paid off by Senator Cochran or whomever manages his PAC&amp;#039;s checkbook?&amp;quot; Engelbrecht called for Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann to look into the matter-and for Perry to be removed from any role in the upcoming runoff. &amp;quot;With the eyes of the nation now on Mississippi&amp;#039;s upcoming runoff, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann should take swift and decisive action to protect voters&amp;#039; rights by removing Pete Perry from all involvement in the runoff election and open an investigation into these potentially illegal activities,&amp;quot; Engelbrecht said. Election Integrity Group is hilarious, by the way. While all this was going on, the McDaniel campaign scored a highly visible endorsement. Tea Partier Chris McDaniel has taken $800 in donations from Carl Ford, a former lawyer for Sam Bowers, the imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who died in prison after being convicted of the murder of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. Ford also is active in the League of the South, a neo-Confederate organization that has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and was active in the Klan in Laurel, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. Sam Bowers, you may recall, also was very interested in the integrity of Mississippi elections, and he never asked for a tax break because of it. This is all fun until somebody becomes a United States senator. It looks very likely that Chris McDaniel, cockfighting enthusiast, with the support of an oldtime Klan lawyer, a stalker of the elderly and the infirm, and people who can&amp;#039;t seem to help getting themselves locked in where they shouldn&amp;#039;t be, will become one-one hundredth of the World&amp;#039;s Greatest Deliberative Body, and Chris McDaniel is somebody from whom no sane person would buy an apple. Tiger Beat On The Potomac went native in McDaniel&amp;#039;s home ground to find out why. The intrepid explorers discovered some interesting local fauna along the way. The county\u2014where government spending is Public Enemy No. 1 despite receiving millions in federal aid after being smacked by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 - also exemplifies the inherent contradictions of the tea party movement. In many ways, at least down here, these grass-roots true believers seem aimed at re-creating an America that no longer exists. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re the Free State of Jones,&amp;quot; Richard Conrad, a soft-spoken, 50-year-old auditor at Sanderson Farms, said over early morning coffee at a Laurel Hardee&amp;#039;s restaurant. &amp;quot;You know, it&amp;#039;s just kind of leave us alone and keep the government away from us and we&amp;#039;ll all do just fine.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Inherent contradictions&amp;quot; is pretty damn funny, too. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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