Haley Barbour's blind trust records made public

Haley Barbour's blind trust records are now available to the public. Today's Clarion Ledger featured a front page story on the news, but chose to devote more than half of the article to last year's unsolved leak of the Governors' trust to Bloomberg News Service and the New Republic. Barbour is the only known elected state official to have a blind trust. Many Mississippians like myself are more interested in what is in the trust and how much did the Governor know about the contents of the trust. The New Republic story was a good start, but left the reader wanting to know more.

From today's Clarion Ledger:

An attorney for Barbour, the only known elected state official to have a blind trust, submitted the documents this month to the Mississippi Ethics Commission as required by a new state law. He initially requested they remain secret, but commission members appeared unwilling to bypass open-records laws.

Included in the blind trust are Barbour's involvement in LEHI Partners LLC and Policy Impact Strategy Communications and an interest in an Arlington, Va., townhouse, as well as cash, stock and bond accounts with A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. S. Griffin Norquist Jr. is listed as trustee