Late this afternoon Dylan Scott reported on the quite odd story of how a close ally of Senate challenger Chris McDaniel had ended up locked in the Courthouse where ballots are stored at around 2 am the morning after primary night. Well, things seem to have gotten a good deal more interesting over the last six hours or so. Now it turns out that one of the two other people with Janis Lane, President of the Central Mississippi Tea Party, was none other than an actual campaign official with the McDaniel campaign. And there’s more.
Rickey Stokes, the bail bondsman who chained those two black men to the courthouse door in Dothan, Alabama, was trying to help out these two guys out and suggests – kinda – that they were cool with being chained up, even though that’s pretty different from their version of events. Stokes’ explanation after the jump …
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This morning, two African-American men from Dothan, Alabama, Johnathan Reese and Greg Tiller, realized they’d missed a court date Monday and turned themselves in to a local bondsman, Rickey Stokes, to try to get a new court date. There were no warrants for their arrest.
Stokes proceeded to chain the two men to the Courthouse door and left.
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So Tea Party officials close to Chris McDaniel ended up in a local courthouse where ballots are kept last night at 2 am. And then they managed to lock themselves inside and had to get rescued.
D’oh! One day after losing primary, GOP Senate candidate hit with multiple count perjury arrest warrant tied to election fraud. Seems like just yesterday she was running this bizarre video calling for gun safety and religion classes in schools.
I’m sure we can all agree that if you’re new to pot, best approach is to smoke 3 joints really fast and just see what happens.
There’s quite a lot of this out there. But courtesy of TPM Reader TT, two posts from GateWayPundit, one of the country’s most prominent rightwing blogs …
10/13/13: “Horrible. Obama to Leave US POW to Rot in Afghanistan After Withdrawal.”
6/3/14: “Figures. Obama Administration Promoted Bergdahl to Sergeant After He Reportedly Joined Taliban.“
Along those lines here’s a fun piece Tom Kludt just put together of Republicans racing to scrub their social media accounts and websites of praise for “war hero” Bowe Bergdahl.
Ed Kilgore takes stock, as only he can, of yesterday’s Tea Party surprise in Mississippi and the fate of the ‘Year of the GOP Establishment’ meme.