MO GOP Chair Gets Involved In MS Race Over ‘Racially Divisive Ads’

State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, speaks at a rally on his behalf in Flowood, Miss., Monday, June 23, 2014. McDaniel is in a runoff against long-time U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran for the GOP nomination for senate. (... State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, speaks at a rally on his behalf in Flowood, Miss., Monday, June 23, 2014. McDaniel is in a runoff against long-time U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran for the GOP nomination for senate. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) MORE LESS
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Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) has been echoing calls from the chairman of the Missouri Republican Party for Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to investigate robocalls in support of Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) re-election campaign, which the Missouri chairman called “racially divisive ads and robocalls.”

The tweets follow Missouri Republican Party Chairman Ed Martin sending letters to Priebus and other RNC members calling on Priebus to appoint a special task force to investigate the ads. Here’s a sample of the letter Martin sent to other RNC members:

At this point, I am asking Reince to lead us – to appoint a committee of we RNC members to get to the bottom of the facts regarding the racially divisive ads and to report back to us for the August meeting. I have purposely left the membership of this committee up to Reince so that he can move quickly.

Those letters are based on ads reported by the Daily Mail that linked McDaniel to a supporter who had connections the Ku Klux Klan. The Daily Mail suggested that those ads were at least partially backed by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), a major supporter and close ally of Cochran’s. Barbour denied that groups supporting Cochran that he worked with ran those ads.

“We ran no radio ads that had anything to do with the KKK or race, or anything like that,” Barbour told the Post.

The RNC did not respond to requests for comment from TPM. Martin was reached by TPM but did not respond to questions by press time.

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  1. “…been echoing calls from the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party to for Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus…”

    Huh?

    FYI, Ed Martin is the chair of the Missouri chairman, not the Mississippi chair.

  2. Avatar for bdtex bdtex says:

    Hope this goes on for a few months. LOL!

  3. At this point, I am asking Reince to lead us - to appoint a committee of
    we [sic] RNC members to get to the bottom of the facts…

    Because facts, as we all know, are definitely something, the bottoms of which, Republicans all want to find with all due alacrity.

    PS

    Does anyone here speak Tweet?

  4. I sincerely hope they aren’t up in arms about an article in the Daily Mail. I’ve literally seen articles posted, that quote comments from “sources” that were clearly from a previous articles’ comment section.

  5. That is what the article is about. Of course the MS Rep chair would not be asking for investigation because they wanted Cochran to win.

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