Washington insider's campaign for governor of Mississippi draws GOP heavyw

[Judi Lynn]

Washington insider's campaign for governor of Mississippi draws GOP heavyweights

EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press Writer Monday, October 27, 2003

(10-27) 22:23 PST JACKSON, Miss. (AP) --

In a contest cast as a test of President Bush's popularity leading into 2004, GOP luminaries are trooping through Mississippi to promote former party chairman Haley Barbour in his bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove.

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole appeared in Biloxi and Jackson on Friday to campaign for Barbour, a well-connected Washington lobbyist, Republican National Committee chairman from 1993 to 1997 and member of the George W. Bush's exploratory committee before the 2000 presidential election.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will speak at a Gulf Coast fish fry with Barbour on Wednesday. Former Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma has been to the state, as have Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, former White House press secretary Ari Fleisher and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

On Saturday, three days before the Nov. 4 election, President Bush plans to make two stops in Republican strongholds on opposite ends of the state. (snip/...)

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[La_Serpiente]

1. We can say

the GOP is campaigning for racists.

[RuB]

2. Is this the same guy met the chinese and took money from them?

Didn't he meet them in the South China Sea on a yaght and was filmed doing it?

On edit heres a link to the basic facts of the story:
http://www.americanpolitics.com/072297HowdyBarbour.html

Tuesday, July 22nd, 1997 -- I can't remember the town in Mississippi from where Haley Barbour hails, it's something like Wazoo, or Kazoo -- or maybe Bozo.

But don't be fooled into thinking Barbour is a Yahoo.

As the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigation turns its guns on the Republican National Committee (RNC), this week promises to be more entertaining than the past two.

The star witness? Haley Barbour, the errant former chairman of the Republican National Committee, who is going to have a very tough time explaining his "think tank" -- National Policy Forum -- which appears to be more of a "laundry" for illegal foreign campaign contributions that the RNC could not take itself for fear of prosecution.

Democrats feel it's one thing to take money from people without adequately understanding the source, but quite another to actually set up a formal mechanism -- in this case, the National Policy Forum -- in order to change the character of the political donation.

Here was Barbour's plan, a plan he carried out according to several sources:

Barbour organized the National Policy Forum as a "non-profit educational corporation." On its face it appeared to be divorced from the RNC itself, but internal memos, including the resignation of a dissident top RNC official, point to the fact that one of the prime, if not the only reason, the National Policy Forum was established was to launder foreign contributions.

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[Rowdyboy]

3. Barbour's from Yazoo City....

Musgrove just launced a new attack add this morning blasting Haley for trying to skim money from rebuilding Iraq through New Bridge Strategies. Hope it helps, I can't stand the idea of this man running the state for 8 years.