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‘Kevin calls me up …’ – MyPillow CEO in Political Bed with Supervisor Who Reveals Votes During Board Meeting

Mike Lindell, aka the infamous MyPillow CEO, boasted in a video yesterday about his affiliation with Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye.

 

According to Lindell’s video, Crye even communicated with him during at least one Shasta County Board of Supervisor meeting break.

Dist. 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye

That’s when Crye allegedly revealed to Lindell updates about the in-progress vote regarding the fate of Shasta County’s election system, including voting machines, and whether to rescind the Dominion machines, or to choose paper, hand-counted ballots only, or go with a pilot program.

Newly appointed Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye. Photo by Doni Chamberlain.

Eventually, Crye, along with his fellow Shasta County supervisors Chris Kelstrom and Chair Patrick Jones, all voted against the Dominion machines, and to explore a pilot program with hand-count paper ballot options.

Supervisors Mary Rickert (District 3) and Tim Garman (District 2) voted against those efforts.

Lindell faces a billion-dollar lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for making false claims about the company regarding election fraud.

Mike Lindell, aka The Pillow Guy

Here’s what Lindell said:

“Here we are in Shasta County. When I was at the RNC about a month ago now, OK, the big news there was hey, this county in California, um, voted to get rid of Dominion.

But then I heard through the grapevine, oh, they’re just going to get another machine copy and I’m going well, ha, you know, I hope somebody would educate them that there’s no – they’re all the same. There isn’t one that — one isn’t as bad ad the other. They’re all the same. They’ll go horizontal, you know, they’re all made with parts made over in China.

That’s just one thing you really want? You really want that?  It’s against our our D – our Department of Defense. You can’t have that. Okay. But anyway. I got a call yesterday by Kevin cry. He’s the — they’re voting down there and they were going to vote not just to get another machine company, all the machine companies, their Hart, ES&S, all the gang’s there, all the usual suspects.

‘K? Well, they decided — it’s two to two, there’s five of them to vote — to get rid of the machines all together.

Well, they heard rumors of that going up and down the western seaboard. And guess who shows up? Twelve people from the Secretary of State’s office. This was yesterday. They swarmed like bees; comin’ in!

The media’s all there, the, the, all these legislatures — all these people are there. And they want to stop them.

‘Ha! You can’t go to paper ballots and hand count! What are you thinking?’

Well, Kevin says, ‘You know what Mike’ — he called me up; he reached out to me and he says, ‘Mike, can you tell me about this stuff?’

I said no. I said these other companies are — one’s as bad as the other. We can’t have electronic voting machines. I don’t care — I don’t care if you had any trusted company. Let’s say you had a company that was completely trustworthy.

ES&S — their own owner said that there’s back doors. Every single voting machine computer is hackable and we should not use them.

He didn’t say this, but I’m saying this, every Democrat’s said this: We should not use them in any election ever! No matter what it is. ‘K? If you all remember, when I ran for RNC, they said Mike, are you going to accept whatever vote comes out, even though (Raspus ?) had me double over the other two, but only the 168 votes. I said, absolutely, because it was paper ballots, hand-counted. There were no machines. You gotta accept, even though they all voted wrong, they all voted against the people.

Now, as we speak, everybody, it’s still going on. It’s six hours this has been going on down there. They’re all pleading, you know? ‘Don’t go to paper please!’ And he machine companies are going … (waves hands).

I just got a notice, I believe he said, ‘No, I’m voting for paper.’

Now what they’re trying to get them everybody is this; everybody listen real closely.  This is what they’re going to try to do to your country. They’re using the handicapped laws, the handicapped going, ‘You can’t do this, because you have to help the handicapped cover.’

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Editor’s note: A News Cafe reached out to Crye Tuesday night with questions about his relationship with Lindell. Crye has not replied. 

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Doni Chamberlain

Independent online journalist Doni Chamberlain founded A News Cafe in 2007 with her son, Joe Domke. Chamberlain holds a Bachelor's Degree in journalism from CSU, Chico. She's an award-winning newspaper opinion columnist, feature and food writer recognized by the Associated Press, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and E.W. Scripps. She's been featured and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Washington Post, L.A. Times, Slate, Bloomberg News and on CNN, KQED and KPFA. She lives in Redding, California.

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