and this person was a real mystery. his name, his almost ungo ungoogleable name was john mary. he had a tea party booster of the chris mcdaniel s campaign. mystery man, at first nobody seemed to know who he was, why he d been arrested, why he d be connected to this case. but then, oh, look, there he is, shaking hands with chris mcdaniel at a tea party meetup in hattiesburg. and look at the caption. he is chris mcdaniel s sometime radio cohost, with a special name he only uses on the radio, john butter. that connection was first made by a website called practical politicking. well, today investigators say they believe that chris mcdaniel s radio co-host was kind of the hub of the whole thing. he was at the center of the alleged tawdry nursing home sting video scheme.