Attention Eaves Campaign

Big Country has done your rebuttal research for the new Barbour Ad.

Here are a few choice excerpts:

In response to Barbour's statement that more people are employed in Mississippi "than in any other time in our state's history" he offers this:

According to the DES Historical Labor Market data, revised in July of this year, 1,218,700 people in Mississippi were employed in 2006. That's down slightly from 2005, when 1,226,500 were employed, and pales in comparison to 2000's all-time high of 1,240,000 employed Mississippians. If the Governor gave that speech in 2000, then he's right on. Otherwise, the data paint a different picture.

In response to Barbour's claim to have simply gotten "the state's financial house in order" he states:

I wonder how many Mississippians will recall the Medicaid fiasco of 2005, when the state enacted one of the most restrictive Medicaid prescription drug benefit caps in the nation? How many other Mississippians will remember that until this year the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which provides the funding necessary for an "adequate" education for public schoolchildren hadn't been fully funded under his watch. He was ready to fight against full funding this year until his Republican colleagues in the state senate told him that their control of that body hung in the balance of the upcoming election cycle. Getting the state's financial house in order on the backs of poor people and school children seems like "strong leadership" if you're Gordon Gekko.

Gordon Gekko is the character from the movie "Wall Street" made famous by his "Greed is Good" line.

It' all good reading and you should check it out at Big Country.

Hat Tip to Leesha Faulkner for pointing this out.