Sources have confirmed that attorney Mark Mayfield has committed suicide.
Mayfield, vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, and is one of the three men charged with conspiring with Clayton Kelly to photograph U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's bedridden wife in her nursing home and create a political video against Cochran.
Mark Mayfield of Ridgeland, an attorney and state and local tea party leader, was arrested last month along with Richard Sager, a Laurel elementary school P.E. teacher and high school soccer coach. Police said they also charged John Beachman Mary of Hattiesburg, but he was not taken into custody because of "extensive medical conditions." All face felony conspiracy charges. Sager also was charged with felony tampering with evidence, and Mary faces two conspiracy counts.
Damn this McDaniel guy is like a magnet for negative karma.
Or is it simply Karma, as there are some lingering questions as to whether or not this is indeed a suicide. Not that I am accusing anybody of anything, I am simply saying that this is a rather convenient death for some people.
I wonder if this will convince McDaniel to finally admit defeat or, with one less person connecting him to the nursery home break in, will convince him that he is untouchable?
Boy that Sarah Palin sure can pick'em!
Keith Plunkett, policy director for McDaniel, reacted to news of Mayfield's death on Twitter.
ReplyDelete“A good man is gone today [because] of a campaign to destroy lives,” he said. “To all ‘so called’ Republican leaders who joined lockstep: I WILL NOT REST!”
He has now deleted the Tweet. Mmmm nothing sounds like dissension in the ranks when you accuse your own party being complacent to murder.
The campaign to destroy lives was the McDaniel campaign when they decided to video tape Cochran's wife in her nursing home.
DeleteYikes! This is sad, but strange indeed.
ReplyDeleteThere had to be something really wrong for a man like this to commit suicide. Possibly personal problems, but the fact he was charged with felony. It's unlikely someone would kill themselves for that.
ReplyDeleteJust looking at McDaniel's face, gives me the creeps. That guy is bad news.
I completely agree with you about McDaniel's. There is something really evil about him....almost scary. Thank goodness he lost that election...even though he doesn't know that yet.
DeleteIf you listen to some of his radio show clips when he talks about women...you will really get creeped out.
@orange triangle.
DeleteOh, he knows, he just refuses to accept it!
McDaniel, Cruz and Palin - three horrible faces and affixed to a horrible party - the Republicans. Boot them all out of office -and/or don't vote the teabaggers in to ANY office!
ReplyDeleteMcDaniel is bad news. I agree with 12:22. That fellow gives me the creeps too.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder Palin supported McDaniel.
DeleteO/T but more gun idiots, this time in OHIO
ReplyDeleteTwo arrested in Ohio after friends protest with AR-15s, spouting racial slurs
http://freakoutnation.com/2014/06/27/video-two-arrested-in-ohio-after-friends-protest-with-ar-15s-spouting-racial-slurs/
Makes you wonder how many times McDaniel refused to take his calls and if he had possibly finally decided that McDaniel was going to throw him to the wolves.
ReplyDeleteConspiracy fodder in....3.....2.....1.....
ReplyDeleteToo bad he didn't think about the consequences of his actions. McDaniel is now trying to blame Cochran for the death.
ReplyDeleteMay Mr. Mayfield rest in peace
ReplyDeleteand my thoughts are with his family during this time of tragedy.
Live by the live, die by the lie.
ReplyDeleteDid he "fall on his sword"?
ReplyDeleteOr he just couldn't take the chance of prison time, being a lawyer and all?
o/t -- The McDaniel Campaign made a big noise about how it was going to have poll watchers at all the polls where they thought there might be voter fraud. So, probably they did. Now they're saying there was voter fraud....but they were there looking for it as it occurred. Can't be both things.
ReplyDeleteAnd for poor Mr. Mayfield, who looks like he was a susceptible kind of guy: Mr. McDaniel or his minions got him roped into some portion of the escapade to photograph Mrs. Cochran in the nursing home, but, dollars to doughnuts, McDaniel cut him loose when they were discovered.
So a respected attorney was charged with a felony doing something he'd never dream of doing on his own and, when caught, his hero threw him under the bus.
For this alone, McDaniel should hang his head in shame and go back to the KKK where he began.
So far ,McDaniel and the tea party are accusing
ReplyDeletethe Republicans and the Cochran campaign of being directly responsible for this man's suicide.
Which is completely illogical and nonsensical , but , then again, the tea party lives in a world
of paranoid conspiracy theories and fantasy.
Being accused of encouraging someone to take pictures of a dementia patient , as odious as that is,
would probably result in a hand slap. If that.
Something much , much bigger must have been weighing on this man to the point where he took his own life.
The McDaniel campaign's bizarre eagerness
to blame " Republican leaders " for Mayfield's death
looks like a pathetic attempt to deflect attention from themselves.
McDaniel gives off a real skin crawling vibe.
Wouldn't surprise me if his campaign actually made the tape of the alleged anti tea party robocall to gin up the anger in his TP supporters.
With his history of sleazy and racist behavior , I wouldn't put anything past him.
Sources have confirmed that attorney Mark Mayfield has committed suicide.
ReplyDeleteAre you sure it wasn't the Sarah Palin Curse?
OK I'll play conspiracy theorist here. What if the night Palin called McDaniel to offer her condolences she also offered a few of her AIP friends to take Mayfield out?
ReplyDeleteSPHASH, I comment on your blog almost daily. I don't know about AIP conspiracy, but there's definitely a reason why everyone went ballistic that Cochran won in the political world, and I don't think it comes down to a black vote crossover. That a man would take his life over it? Her Heinous was sooooo pissed off that McDaniel lost? Something is VERY rotten in Denmark.
DeleteOh jeez. It is a suicide. His personal life crashed and burned and he felt cornered with no way out. Conspiracy of what exactly? Gimme a break.
DeleteWhen something this tragic happens, people try to figure out why he took his own life. My thoughts are with his family, but if he was a Democrat, you can bet your bottom dollar there'd be conspiracy theories, talk of death panels, etc etc.
ReplyDeleteIt just creeps me out that the poor woman's privacy was invaded for political reasons.
Well he DID.
DeleteThis is very sad. From what I've read, Mayfield' s life was upended by his criminal conspiracy charges. He wasn't prepared at all for the consequences of his actions, and they hit him so hard he saw no other way out than to end his life. His mug shot photo is stark evidence of his despair. His expression exudes it. I don't believe there was any conspiracy to kill him, and I think to even suggest it is the cheapest political opportunism. McDaniel and his minions are crazy evil, but there is no evidence this was anything but suicide.
ReplyDeleteWasn't prepared at all? Maybe he should have thought about that before he did it.
Delete8:01 - uh yeah, that is what not being prepared means.
Delete"Unprepared"? The guy was an attorney. He certainly should have known the trouble he could get into. He should have convinced his cohorts that it was too dumb an idea to pull off.
DeleteBeaglemom
I think that once the reality of how much trouble he was in after engaging in the stunt to take a pic of Mrs. Cochran to boost McDaniel's campaign became clear, Mayfield realized how much he had to lose and the shame he had brought upon his wife and family. He also lost some respect in his community, faced losing his law license, and could have been facing time in prison. I think it just became too much for him to bear/deal with, so he decided to end his life. Sad. I wish he'd thought of the negative consequences of his behavior before he decided to do something so stupid to help McDaniel win an election.
ReplyDeleteMississippi's CHRIS McDANIEL is Sarah's man. WTF is she fighting for in Alaska these days? What is taking her so long for condolences and tributes for the tragic demise of Mark Mayfield, a good Christian man and her Tea Party compadre? Why does the cat suddenly have her tongue?
ReplyDelete“They killed him. They sent a SWAT team to his office, six officers, just to arrest him.” Pat Bruce
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/mark-mayfield-chris-mcdaniel-aide-108395.html