WTF?!? Tea Partier Locked In Courthouse With Ballots On Election Night
Why Was Miss. Tea Partier In Locked Courthouse With Ballots On Election Night?
A Mississippi tea party official with close ties to U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel apparently ended up inside a locked and empty county courthouse late Tuesday night after primary election results had come in.
Hinds County Republican executive chairman Pete Perry told TPM that he received a phone call around 2:00 a.m. CT on Wednesday from Janis Lane, president of the Central Mississippi Tea Party, who said she was locked inside the Hinds County courthouse. That would be where the circuit clerk and election commission offices, and the primary election ballots, are located.
The incident seemed to mystify Perry, a supporter of Sen. Thad Cochran, whom McDaniel is challenging for the GOP nomination. The ballots had been secured prior to the intrusion, according to local authorities.
"I don't know. I know I wouldn't walk into a courthouse at 2 o'clock in the morning by myself or with somebody else and just walk around inside the building," Perry said. "I'm not going to go into a public building just because somehow or another I happened to find a door that was unlocked.
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is so very interested in 'observing the election process'.
She's full of it.
It seems the three forgot to get their story straight and gave conflicting reports, which has raised a red flag. As if magically appearing in a locked courthouse housing election material the night of a heated primary race didn't? 
The Hinds County Sheriff's Department is investigating why three people, including a high ranking Chris McDaniel campaign official, were found locked in the Hinds County Courthouse hours after it was closed by election officials early Wednesday morning.
Hinds County Sheriff's Department spokesman Othor Cain said investigators are trying to figure out how Janis Lane, Scott Brewster, and Rob Chambers somehow gained access to the inside of the courthouse. They were inside until about 3:45 a.m., Cain said.
Brewster is a former coordinator of Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's Mississippi operation and is currently McDaniel's campaign coalition director.
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"There are conflicting stories from the three of them, which began to raise the red flag, and we're trying to get to the bottom of it," Cain said. "No official charges have been filed at this point, but we don't know where the investigation will lead us."
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/06/04/tea-party-official-locked-inside-courthouse/9963579/
The Republican primaries are always the most entertaining part of an election year, that's for sure.
Interestingly, the first story I saw said it was her and two other women. Now it seems they were men. ooooOOOOOOooooo
