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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:07 PM Jun 2014

What can you say?: MS Tea Partier who conspired to photograph Sen. Cochran’s wife commits suicide


Excerpt from the article and more at site.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/27/ms-tea-partier-who-conspired-to-photograph-sen-cochrans-wife-commits-suicide/


Mark Mayfield, the Mississippi Tea Party vice chairman who was arrested in connection with the plan to photograph Senator Thad Cochran’s ailing wife, has committed suicide.

The Clarion-Ledger reported that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head.

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What can you say?: MS Tea Partier who conspired to photograph Sen. Cochran’s wife commits suicide (Original Post) Skidmore Jun 2014 OP
The strangeness grows! randome Jun 2014 #1
That is really a shame yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #10
I would disagree, some human life is worthless enough where one should end it- snooper2 Jun 2014 #13
I didn't hear that story yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #15
Shame. Spider Jerusalem Jun 2014 #2
Too bad he didn't live to go to prison for exploitation of a vulnerable person. yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #12
I keep missing this, what was the point Kelvin Mace Jun 2014 #3
Claiming neglect is the only thing that makes sense in whatever tortured thinking went into this. randome Jun 2014 #5
I think they wanted to use it in an ad truebluegreen Jun 2014 #7
Guns. JaneyVee Jun 2014 #4
Sad. 840high Jun 2014 #6
Unstable...n/t monmouth3 Jun 2014 #8
"Curiouser and curiouser", cried Alice Rowdyboy Jun 2014 #9
They are TEABAGGERS! jeez I'm an so tired of "tea partier" that's what I do with my 4 year old LOL snooper2 Jun 2014 #11
I copied the article headline verbatim. I Skidmore Jun 2014 #16
Some music to mark his death... backscatter712 Jun 2014 #14
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. The strangeness grows!
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:10 PM
Jun 2014

Unbelievable.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)
[/center][/font][hr]

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
10. That is really a shame
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:42 PM
Jun 2014

He made a horrible mistake. He would have taken the punishment and gone on with his life. Nobody's life is "worthless" enough to kill themselves over. I know he was Tea Bag but this is sad regardless.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
13. I would disagree, some human life is worthless enough where one should end it-
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:45 PM
Jun 2014

Take for example the story yesterday of the white supremacist Piece Of Shit and his wife Piece of Shit molesting and abusing their daughters for years-

I see no reason at all those two shouldn't do a joint suicide...

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
15. I didn't hear that story
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:47 PM
Jun 2014

However, the only one that I wouldn't shed a tear for is that kid who shot some people. His father was all over the news yesterday. Even his father (sorta) said he wished he was gone.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
12. Too bad he didn't live to go to prison for exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:44 PM
Jun 2014

This is worse. Maybe he would have changed his ways in jail. Maybe he would have done something significant. Suicide is never the answer.

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
3. I keep missing this, what was the point
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:17 PM
Jun 2014

of photographing his wife? Is there something shameful about being old and sick or were they planning on claiming neglect?

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
5. Claiming neglect is the only thing that makes sense in whatever tortured thinking went into this.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:19 PM
Jun 2014

Unless they wanted to get her on tape saying something stupid about her son?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)
[/center][/font][hr]

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
7. I think they wanted to use it in an ad
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:25 PM
Jun 2014

about how Cochran is "running around" on his wife. Or something.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
11. They are TEABAGGERS! jeez I'm an so tired of "tea partier" that's what I do with my 4 year old LOL
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:43 PM
Jun 2014

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
16. I copied the article headline verbatim. I
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 02:30 PM
Jun 2014

personally prefer to use the original name they gave themselves.

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