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Mississippi tea party leader an apparent suicide

By Jim Galloway
June 27, 2014

The contest for that U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi isn't over. In fact, the strangeness keeps piling on. From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger:

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.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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