SOUTHAVEN, Mississippi — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) pulled the old “bait-and-switch” to avoid a televised CNN interview, reporter Dana Bash says. Bash tried to interview Cochran for CNN at a Memorial Day event in Vicksburg, MS, but Cochran dodged the
MADISON, Mississippi–Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) told the Associated Press that if he’s re-elected, he plans to serve the full six years of what would be his seventh term in the U.S. Senate. “I sure hope, if I am alive and
Sen. Thad Cochran’s longtime executive assistant was listed as being part of a “spouse group” and photographed participating in recreational events for senators’ spouses on a taxpayer-funded trip in 2004 to South America. In captions to photos posted online by
JACKSON, Mississippi — State Sen. Chris McDaniel told Breitbart News Sunday host Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, that “courage” is needed in Washington to fight the national debt and change the direction of the country. “I
JACKSON, Mississippi — Dr. Milton Wolf, the conservative primary challenger to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), is calling on Roberts to publicly denounce his U.S. Senate colleague, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), for bringing his executive assistant, Kay Webber, on 33 taxpayer-funded
JACKSON, Mississippi–It’s the Tea Party’s biggest test in 2014: can the movement knock down an establishment Republican whose name in and of itself is an institution in the state he’s represented for 42 years? Ten days out from the election,
Two more arrests were made Thursday in the case of the crazed blogger, Clayton Thomas Kelly, who allegedly illegally entered the nursing home occupied by Rose Cochran, wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), and photographed her. The arrests, according to The Clarion-Ledger, were
Two major conservative groups are dropping more than half a million dollars into ad buys in Mississippi, two weeks ahead of the June 3 election, to give state Sen. Chris McDaniel an extra boost over six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), an ally of Speaker John Boehner, cruised to re-election on Tuesday in what originally was a contested primary against conservative attorney Bryan Smith. Simpson and his big business allies spent big bucks to stomp out Smith,
The personal attorney for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) offered little explanation late Monday for why nearly three weeks elapsed between when Cochran’s campaign initially learned a crazed blogger had broken into his wife’s residence and when he went to the
The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund and its powerful attorney Cleta Mitchell have refiled an updated complaint with the Federal Election Commission regarding an allegedly illegal bank loan a Mississippi bank gave to a Super PAC supporting the reelection of
A new poll from Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund shows that Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel has seven-point lead over 36-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). The poll, conducted by pollster George Birnbaum of GEB International who surveyed 600
A new Citizens United Political Victory Fund poll shows that six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is slightly trailing his Tea Party challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel just a couple weeks from election day in Mississippi. The election is on
On Saturday, April 26, at 8:54am, Melanie Sojourner, campaign manager for Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel’s primary challenge of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), sent an irate email. “Someone has created a video about Thad and Kay,” Sojourner wrote in the
Clayton Thomas Kelly, a 28-year-old man from Pearl, MS, snuck into the retirement home of Rose Cochran, the wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), to take secret photographs of her and post them online. Madison, MS, police arrested Kelly late
What has been described as an “ugly” primary campaign between the tea-party backed state Senator Chris McDaniel and longtime incumbent Senator Thad Cochran, got a lot uglier yesterday when a McDaniel supporter was arrested for sneaking into Cochran’s wife’s nursing
With a bitter primary campaign between Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel and incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) veering towards the gutter, McDaniel used a Thursday morning press conference to try to pull it back, embracing the reform platform of
The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund chairman Jenny Beth Martin is alleging a loan given to a super PAC backing Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the bitter Mississippi primary race was illegal, according to a complaint she filed with the
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) re-election campaign asserts that questions about his extensive, taxpayer-funded travels with executive assistant Kay Webber are “sexist.” “This is sexist,” Cochran spokesman Jordan Russell told The Clarion-Ledger. “Why are they questioning her qualifications? All members of
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to defend taxpayer-funded travels of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and his executive assistant Kay Webber on Tuesday. “You’ll have to address those questions to Sen. Cochran,” McConnell replied when asked if he thought Cochran
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) suggested to National Public Radio (NPR) he would like to bring earmarks back to Congress. “I think earmarks have gotten a bad name,” Cochran told the national radio outlet for a piece it published on the
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) lives in the basement apartment in a house owned by his executive assistant, Kay Webber, which he has listed as his primary address on official forms. Now public records show Webber accompanied Cochran on dozens of
Mid-South News, Weather, Traffic and Sports | FOX13 Last week, Breitbart News’ Matthew Boyle appeared on Memphis, TN Fox affiliate WHBQ and called the upcoming contest for the Mississippi Republican senatorial nomination “ground zero” for control of the state Republican
With the backdrop of a recent tornado outbreak that caused sever damage in Mississippi and Arkansas, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is criticizing his primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, over disaster aid. Pointing to a special session of the state
On her Thursday radio show, former Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, explained why he sees long-time incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) as a better candidate for reelection than his challenger for the Republican
During its Wednesday evening newscast, Jackson, MS ABC affiliate WAPT cited a Breitbart News report which had raised questions about Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) residency. Cochran had claimed his residency as a cabin near Oxford, MS but documents submitted to
The GOP Senate primary in North Carolina Tuesday is the first real test of the battle between the Republican Establishment and the Tea Party of the 2014 election cycle, but the Establishmen’s pick, North Carolina state House Speaker Tillis, is
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) repeatedly listed a Washington, D.C. house owned by his executive assistant as his address on a series of official documents in recent years, including several of his statements of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission. Cochran
The godfather of Mississippi’s largest and most powerful industry – one that has longed push for more lenient immigration law’s to help provide cheap labor – is Sen. Thad Cochran’s fundraising chairman, the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro writes in a
Six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) told the Associated Press that he won’t debate his primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, because McDaniel is “trying to make me look bad by things he’s saying about my performance in the Senate.”
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) already twice said he didn’t know very much about the Tea Party, now he’s using the same line on a new immigration pledge that’s quickly gaining signers since it was released earlier this week. “I haven’t
Saying his victory “would send a shockwave through the incumbent class,” Talk radio host Laura Ingraham endorsed state senator Chris McDaniel Tuesday in his bid against incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, citing his early adoption of a new anti-amnesty pledge. Monday,
An anti-amnesty group is working to bring a Grover Norquist-like pledge to the immigration issue, and the highest-profile Republican primary challenger of the cycle is the first to sign. Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel endorsed a new pledge from the
It is “unbecoming” of a member of Congress like Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) to refuse to debate a credible primary challenger like state Sen. Chris McDaniel, a top Mississippi newspaper’s editorial board wrote Sunday. “We understand such decisions are based
JACKSON, Mississippi — Hours before two major Tea Party rallies in this state, the American Conservative Union endorsed state Senator Chris McDaniel over incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, providing the imprimatur of an organization that remains the most highly-sought validator of
BILOXI, Mississippi–“You feel it don’t you? The momentum is growing. The people are waking up again,”state senator Chris McDaniel told a crowd of about 150 Tea Party activists here. McDaniel was in his element at the event, part of the
BILOXI, MS–South Mississippi Tea Party chairman John Rhodes is fairly involved in politics. The Tea Party chapter he leads meets twice a month. An active supporter of state Senator Chris McDaniel in the U.S. Senate primary here, Rhodes has been
The chairman of the Mississippi GOP, Joe Nosef, reacted angrily to Tea Party groups calling for his resignation this week, accusing one local activist of secretly working to elect Democrats and saying some “fanatical” Tea Party groups could jeopardize the
Five years after an estimated one million Tea Party activists turned out at more than 900 rallies across the country on April 15, 2009 to participate in the historic national Tax Day Tea Party, there are only a few such
