McDaniel Ally Tied to Photo Scandal Dies
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 27th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
McDaniel Ally Tied to Photo Scandal Dies
A Chris McDaniel supporter arrested for his alleged connection to the photographing of Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife died Wednesday in an apparent suicide, the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Mississippi reports. Mark Mayfield, a leader of the Mississippi Tea Party, was one of three men arrested on conspiracy charges after blogger Clayton Kelly allegedly photographed Cochran’s bedridden wife, Rose, at a nursing home where she suffers from progressive dementia. The photos were allegedly used for an anti-Cochran political video that was later taken down. Mayfield was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday at his Ridgeland home.