Suicide Probed in Mississippi Tea Party Leader’s Death
This is both sad and tragic news, but I imagine it won’t be long before the far right kookspiracists start reacting to this:
First they came for Breitbart!
Yet the lawyer and Mississippi Tea Party leader has been under fire for the past month, having been charged with three others — according to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper — in connection to a blogger accused of taking a picture of Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife in her nursing home bed. This came a week after the blogger, Clayton Kelly, was himself charged.
All were apparent allies of conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who was then engaged in an ugly primary battle to see who would be the GOP Senate candidate from Mississippi.
The photo of Cochran’s wife — who suffers from dementia and has lived in a nursing home for 14 years — surfaced in a political attack ad on YouTube that aimed to smear Cochran, The Clarion-Ledger reported. It’s unclear how the photo was used because the ad was removed within hours of being posted, according to the newspaper.
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