Earl Faggert, the leader of a heritage group that fought to keep a Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag, is now on the payroll of Gov. Haley Barbour’s re-election campaign.
A finance report filed this month shows the Barbour campaign had paid Faggert $7,651 through Sept. 30.
Faggert said he is a longtime supporter of Barbour and particularly admires the governor’s work in the state’s Katrina recovery.
In a statewide election in April 2001, Mississippians voted nearly 2-to-1 to keep the Confederate battle flag in the design of the state flag. Faggert was chairman of the Mississippi Heritage Political Action Committee, a group that campaigned to keep the Confederate symbol — a blue X with 13 white stars, atop a red field.
The Confederate battle flag has been part of the state flag since 1894. In May 2000, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that flag had lacked official status since 1906, when state laws were updated and the flag design was not described in statute.
I'd always assumed that the folks trying to turn out "heritage" voters were closely connected with the Barbour campaigns. This doesn't prove anything, but it comes awfully close. In other news Barbour says he wants 20% of the black vote. I'll make a prediction right now. He doesn't.
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