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Getting Weirder

05.22.14 | 1:47 pm

This photo taken Feb. 20, 2014 shows Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., speaks during Pearl's Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet in Pearl, Miss. Thad Cochran is engaged in his toughest campaign in a generation. The former ... This photo taken Feb. 20, 2014 shows Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., speaks during Pearl's Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet in Pearl, Miss. Thad Cochran is engaged in his toughest campaign in a generation. The former Appropriations Committee chairman faces a June 3 primary challenge from a two-term state lawmaker. Chris McDaniel riles up tea party voters by denouncing big federal spending and portraying the 76-year-old incumbent as a Washington insider who’s lost touch with folks back home. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) MORE LESS

Two more arrests in that bizarro scheme to photograph the dementia-suffering wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in her nursing home bed. One of the new arrests: the vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party.

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