McDaniel: ‘Constitutional Clayton’ Conspirators Should Be Prosecuted To Full Extent Of Law

Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, listens to a question in Senate Judiciary B Committee, as lawmakers hurried through a number of committee generated bills at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, March 6, 2012. C... Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, listens to a question in Senate Judiciary B Committee, as lawmakers hurried through a number of committee generated bills at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Committees met until late afternoon as lawmakers faced a deadline for their committees to report on general bills and constitutional amendments originating in their own chamber. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) MORE LESS
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Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel’s campaign released a short statement Thursday in response to new arrests in the case of political blogger “Constitutional Clayton” Kelly photographing Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) wife.

“As we have said since day one, the violation of the privacy of Mrs. Cochran is out of bounds for politics and is reprehensible. Any individuals who were involved in this crime should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” McDaniel communications director Noel Fritsch said in a statement.

The statement came a few hours after attorney Mark Mayfield and Richard Sager were arrested and charged in connection to Kelly going to the nursing home of Sen. Thad Cochran’s bedridden wife, Rose, to take her picture for an anti-Cochran campaign video. Both Mayfield and Sager appear to have volunteered for the McDaniel campaign, according to the Clarion-Ledger of Mississippi.

McDaniel has denied that anyone on his campaign was connected to Kelly’s photographing of Rose Cochran.

McDaniel, on his website, also lists the Central Mississippi Tea Party on his bio page. Mayfield is listed as one of the Board of Directors for that organization.

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  1. Examine every KKK Chapter, Tea Party Outhouse, League of The South Bar, and no way can you bypass McDaniel. Review the trash of the Trash to the fullest extent.

  2. Jesus Christ, Chris! Will you shut up? You’re just making it worse.

    Well, at least you aren’t saying “Get back under that bus and STAY there!”

  3. How many corrupt MS Republicans does it take to break into a nursing home and terrorize an Alzheimer’s patient? As many as McDaniel could summons?

    This TeaParty clown sent two lawyers and a blogger to do a job that James O’Keefe would have gladly done for him pro bono? Just imagine the hour fees that were racked up on this project that McDaniel will have to pay his “consultants.” This gang of Plumbers sound almost as intimidating as G. Gordon Liddy… and just as bungling.

  4. Reading about these Mayberry, or should I say, Mississippi “Machiavellis” over the past several days has been a source of free entertainment for me. Neverthess, with respect to Cochran V. McDaniel, the simile that leaps into my mind is festering boil v. gas gangrene.

  5. You can say you can’t remember. You can say you can’t recall. You can’t remember anything about that you can recall.

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