Barbour's New Ad "From Day One" (Haley Was Screwing Us)

"from day one Haley Barbour has worked for all of us"

That is unless you have kids who might start smoking, need healthcare, care about ethics, or even eat.

"doubled workforce training"

I wonder how much of that is specific to Katrina and then how many of those programs Barbour actually had much of a hand in.

"i want people to look at my record" (over a billion wasted dollars, thousands in FEMA trailers, communities struggling, vetoed ethics and anti-tobacco legislation, family members profiting, etc.)

Well good, I look forward to covering it in the coming months. It sure ain't sunshine and lollipops.

Barbour Using State Funds For Re-Election

Every single person I know on the Coast that I polled has gotten at least one phone call from MEMA featuring a recording of Haley Barbour in the last two weeks.

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.

Haley Leaves Out Some Key Economic Facts

“Mississippi's economy and, generally, life in Mississippi right now is about as good as it's ever been.” - Haley Barbour

When Haley Barbour says that we've never had it so good it would be could to stop and consider where we are.

Our state unemployment rate has actually increased under the eye of Haley Barbour. When he took office in 2004 Mississippi's unemployment rate was 36th in the nation; today Mississippi weighs in at 49th beaten only by Michigan.

Hurricane Katrina cannot be blamed.

Louisiana was 40th in the nation and now they stand at our old position at 36. Their unemployment rate improved from 6.1 percent to 4.8 percent with each 1/10 of a percentage point representing thousands of jobs. Mississippi's rate worsened to 6 percent placing it as stated previously at 49th.