Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco lobbyist,
By on Dec 4th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco lobbyist,
has successfully withdrawn “all funding for Mississippi’s highly successful anti-smoking program.” Barbour’s lobbying firm, “Barbour, Griffin, & Rogers, was paid a total of $3.8 million by the tobacco companies, according to reports obtained by the United States Senate Office of Public Records.”
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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. Just FYI.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:23 pmI believe Haley is the Governor of Mississippi, not Alabama. Would expect nothing less from him either.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:24 pmand I may be wrong, but isn’t it “tobacco,” not “tabacco?”
December 4th, 2006 at 4:27 pmAlso, “tabacco” is “tobacco”
December 4th, 2006 at 4:27 pmBarbour is the governor of Mississippi, not Alabama!
(A red state by any other name…)
December 4th, 2006 at 4:27 pmI thought everyone in Mississippi chewed?
December 4th, 2006 at 4:29 pmand I may be wrong, but isn’t it “tobacco,†not “tabacco?â€
Comment by =dan
I thought it was tabacky
December 4th, 2006 at 4:32 pmYeah, because smoking is a wonderful way to relax after you have just signed a bill to remove habeas corpus or sent more Americans off to die for oil.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:34 pmummm, the name of the law firm is
Barbour, Griffith & Rogers
the latter two pigs worked for daddy bush…
December 4th, 2006 at 4:36 pmDid someone say Alabama’s Barbour Pig? How typical and corruptly predictable can one get? This guy’s a repugnant pig.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:47 pmBarbour, Griffith & Rogers
the latter two pigs worked for daddy bush…
Comment by the think progress POOFREADER
Like a bad stench, they permiate into every crack and hole getting everywhere and causing discomfort to all.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:47 pmGriffith & Rogers need to be investigated as well…..Pappy’s Pigs, eh?? I’m sure their sty and trail of feces can be traced back a very long time.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:48 pmBarbour is doing the bidding ot those who pay him well.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:50 pmNice.
Mississippi is still suffering from effects of Katrina, but Barbour has his priorities.
What a chumbucket.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:54 pmAccording to Chris Matthews, Barbour will be McCain’s pick for Veep. Whores love company.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:58 pmThe best legislation money can buy!
December 4th, 2006 at 4:58 pmhere is the background on Griffith and Rogers… more, including their emails, should anyone wish to thank them for their job well done, availabe at http://www.bgrdc.com/bios.htm#
December 4th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Now we know the price of Gov Barbour’s soul.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:07 pmSomebody at Think Progress please take Alabama out of the headline. Okay? Somebody in Mississippi please impeach Haley Barbour. Okay?
December 4th, 2006 at 5:18 pmAlabama, Mississippi, whatever, close enough. I’m sure the gene pool is no different.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:21 pmIsn’t he the governor of Mississippi. The headline says Alabama.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:28 pm#20 haha
He is the Gov of Mississippi and it is spelled Tobacco
ThinkProgress must be having a blonde moment of sorts
December 4th, 2006 at 5:30 pmso, could these fellas be sued in a class action somehow?
December 4th, 2006 at 6:01 pmnegligence? conspiracy? i dunno?
seems there should be some liability for stopping a “highly successful anti-smoking program.â€
We will excuse TP’s “blonde moment” as Deniz put it. As long as there are a couple Pam Andersons to go with it. Heh.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:20 pmGov. Haley Barbour shares the Republican dream with all of the Neocons – the sacrafice of human life for personal gain, using Jesus as a shield. Those are true Christian values for you.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:30 pmHey, here is an anti-smoking program that costs nothing:
(childs name), you know I love you and want what is best for you. Don’t smoke. Don’t think about smoking. It causes cancer, tooth loss, and heart disese. Not only that, but it makes you smell bad. I know you will have friends that want you to smoke. You don’t have to make an excuse, just say “No, thanks.” No fuss, no muss. If all else fails, tell them that if I catch you smoking, I will bust your ass and you will not see daylight for a long time.
Remember, I love you and I want what is best for you.
See, cost nothing and can be repeated daily.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:25 pmBarbour is a douchebag.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:25 pmin the midst of trying to stop, the program stops, the person can’t get the same support, starts to smokes and dies…did halley cause harm to the person? the smokers family might think so…
Comment by haley barbour’s legacy — December 4, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
so would i… glad you understood what i was trying to say/ask…
so many ‘legacy’s… how do you keep them all straight? :)
December 4th, 2006 at 8:16 pm…See, cost nothing and can be repeated daily.
Comment by robert — December 4, 2006 @ 7:25 pm
yea, robert… would if it could…
my own dad sat me down at the table, a whiskey in one hand, a cigarrette in the other and said, ‘goddamit, you are forgidden to cuss, drink or smoke… if you do you cannot drive the car’… i was 15… didn’t get my license till 17 ’cause ‘what for?’… i finally kicked after 35ish years 9/1/01… don’t know how i got through the horror of the next week – except i watched my dad suffocate from emphysema the june prior, and i was on the zyban/wellbutrin… hardest damn thing i ever did… and i gave birth using lamaze, twice…
btw – did you see the comment i left for you on the sat. FAST thread – late last nigh, at the end…
December 4th, 2006 at 8:29 pmkaty,
Yep, saw it. I didn’t comment as the thread was so old.
That too is a BS ruling. Trying to stop the unstoppable.
December 4th, 2006 at 8:46 pmif you’re gonna use think progress for your own free therapy sessions, at least learn how to spell properly. it’s what you expect from everyone else.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:13 pmI really do not know how the young are seduced today by the cigarette industry but remember that I did not touch my first until I was a frosh in college (1957). A bowl of those little five packs was in the student lounge of every dorm or frat house. There was even an adjacent bowl of paper match books. I got hooked.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:15 pmI stopped the day that my son called and said that I had a Grand Child on the way – cold turkey. Spouse stopped the same day – she was tempted by the same marketing ploy in her college days.
Looking back on my family genealogy, the smokers averaged 20 fewer years of life then the nons. I pray I beat the odds. She (the Granddaughter) is just short of six and I would love to attend her marriage. Barbour is a curse unto humanity.
I really do not know how the young are seduced today by the cigarette industry but remember that I did not touch my first until I was a frosh in college (1957). A bowl of those little five packs was in the student lounge of every dorm or frat house. There was even an adjacent bowl of paper match books. I got hooked.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:15 pmI stopped the day that my son called and said that I had a Grand Child on the way – cold turkey. Spouse stopped the same day – she was tempted by the same marketing ploy in her college days.
Looking back on my family genealogy, the smokers averaged 20 fewer years of life then the nons. I pray I beat the odds. She (the Granddaughter) is just short of six and I would love to attend her marriage. Barbour is a curse unto humanity.
That too is a BS ruling. Trying to stop the unstoppable.
Comment by robert — December 4, 2006 @ 8:46 pm
oh my gawd, robert… the onion is satire…
December 4th, 2006 at 9:15 pmit was funny as hell… try out some of the other stories…
i was hoping to make you see the ridiculousness of such actions…
please, lighten up…
#31 Shut up, already. Nobody likes you in life and nobody likes you here.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:21 pmComment by WaltTheMan — December 4, 2006 @ 9:15 pm
walt – those little 5 packs would have been a tremendous help to me at that time… i looked for and asked about them… instead, i’d have to buy the whole 20 pack… then i resigned myself to bumming one occasionally, to hell with what people thought about it… i finally got down to 1 per week or so and then one day realized it had been 2 weeks without and that was it…
but you’re right – i also don’t understand why kids today want to smoke, with all the information out there… and the COST!
December 4th, 2006 at 9:26 pm.
TOTALLY CORRUPT. my understanding that in 1998, billions of $$’s
was part of that tobacco settlement agreement. Mississippi already
has something like 20 – 30 years of funding exactly for that corrupt
government that has now pocketed that money. MISSISSIPPI
ALREADY HAS THIS TOBACCO SETTELEMENT MONEY COMING IN
EVERY SINGLE YEAR!!!!!!!!
but to come to think of it every single state has broken their promise….
well over 20 years the states sue the tobacco companies exactly for
that stop smoking purpose and yet just 5 years later most states
cannot even meet the very minimal goal, many just pocketed that money
WHAT A BUNCH OF POLITICAL CROOKS
December 4th, 2006 at 9:28 pmWhy my post(s) double posted eludes me!
December 4th, 2006 at 9:28 pmNow, one disappeared!
December 4th, 2006 at 9:30 pmAnd is back again!
December 4th, 2006 at 9:30 pmaww… and he’s been so good… and so much fun…
seems the ‘legacy’ has been deleted from many threads…
c’mon, TP… what’s that about?
December 4th, 2006 at 9:34 pmkaty,
I guess they figured out it was james. If only they were so vigilant on Flaco and that Insecure guy.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:48 pmkaty and Zooey,
December 4th, 2006 at 9:59 pmMy WEB log says that I only sent one post, but two showed up on TP for #32 and #33. It is a privalege being adleted! I am honored!
sorry katy, not enough coffe and too much rap muic today. (read Think Fast, you’ll get the joke)
December 4th, 2006 at 10:20 pm#32 and #33. It is a privalege being adleted! I am honored!
Comment by WaltTheMan — December 4, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
that’s what i see…
December 4th, 2006 at 10:20 pmand i hated being deleted! hardly an honor! more of a pisser!
definetely a pisser!
Walt,
Welcome to the Deleted Club!
It’s been a while, I may renew my membership…
December 4th, 2006 at 10:21 pm#45 Katy, he was adleted!! Two for the price of one (I think that is what he was saying).
December 4th, 2006 at 10:28 pmhe was adleted!! Two for the price of one (I think that is what he was saying).
Comment by JPark — December 4, 2006 @ 10:28 pm
oh! ah hahaha! yea, duh… 2 d’s and i may have gotten it! (add)…
thought it was a typo…
that was funny, walt… sorry, i’m so dense at times…
December 4th, 2006 at 10:38 pmSorry, katy. I probably should have two “d”s, but there is only one “l” in the obverse (deleted) and it is in most cases enunciated twice by those of us on this side of the Atlantic. My Boston College mother would never have approved. I chose the structure as used in “adverb”. I may have made at least one mistake at some point in my life, but like W, I can not remember when that was, thus it must never have happened (Unless you count the time when I was 8 years old and jump-started (A standard Lincoln penny jammed between the ignition terminals and after that I hit the starter.) and drove a Caterpillar Earth-mover on my school grounds during recess – I took shit from admin for that one, but was a hero amongst my peers.).
December 5th, 2006 at 1:15 amI might note that the principal called in my parents hoping for some home demerits – my father’s comment: “I always knew he was quite smart.”
December 5th, 2006 at 1:27 amThere are too many, not enough handicapped parking spaces in our city
February 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pm