Here is one friends short account of the call and what he did in response:
"I have received 2 calls at home today from MEMA, and they start out with"this is Governor Haley Barbour, their is a hurricane in the Caribbean that could enter the gulf and threaten........ you get the picture.When you call the number back now you get a male voice that says if the number shows up on your caller id or you got a message from them, it was Governor Haley Barbour telling you to watch the tropics. This is ridiculous, since last night the NOAA.gov website has had the storm tracking even further to the soth and going into Mexico or at worst south Texas. This is abusing the state agency and the taxpayers with fear..."
The number he received the call from was 866-920-6362. Call it and you'll get the same response he did.
A few weeks previous I got a storm preparedness robo-call from Haley Barbour "that is only a test." In the process of that test however, I got to hear Barbour talking about storms preparedness which is one of my greatest concerns as a Coast resident.
The governor is using your tax money to make him look good. Don't you think a few thousand from his multimillion dollar war-chest might have been more appropriate. This does follow a consistent pattern nationwide of Republicans using everything from publicly paid for mail to say nice things about their candidates to having public employees work on campaigns and being advised to do so.
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