It’s kind of pitiful how Thad Cochran is going out, after being in the Senate since the days of Jimmy Carter, bell bottoms and disco. A Cochran staffer named Lee Ellis Blair, a member of the DeSoto County GOP executive committee and Cochran campaign staffer, was arrested late Sunday and charged with “malicious mischief,” according to Breitbart News. I’m really going to enjoy watching Cochran get slaughtered tomorrow night.
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| Thad Cochran staffer caught stealing McDaniel campaign signs |
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The police report alleged Blair “did willfully, unlawfully and maliciously or mischievously disfigure, destroy, injure (or cause to be) a Chris McDaniel campaign sign, the personal property of Tea Party Express.
Blair’s Facebook page is filled with photographs he took of Cochran throughout the campaign with other DeSoto County GOP leaders.
He is identified by a local news outlet as a “field rep” for the Cochran campaign.
Photographs of signs he allegedly tore down and destroyed include FreedomWorks signs for McDaniel and calling to “Retire Thad” and a Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund sign noting they endorsed McDaniel.
Mitch Tyner, a Jackson-based attorney and McDaniel supporter who ran against former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in the 2003 gubernatorial primary, told Breitbart News that Blair is a paid staffer of the Cochran campaign and is also the vice chairman of the DeSoto County Republican Club.