[Desk] Barbour Is Willing to Raise/Drop the Big Bucks to Keep Seat
On the topic of the race for the big-banana seats, this interview with Haley Barbour by Emily Wagster Pettus of the Associated Press is fascinating, and is a reminder that machine politics have definitely taken hold in Mississippi, and how well the TV stations fare from political advertising?$13 million is quite the chunk o’ moolah.
Barbour - a former Washington lobbyist and Republican National Committee chairman - tapped into a broad network of donors and set a Mississippi campaign fundraising record in 2003, when he unseated Democrat Ronnie Musgrove.
“Between my campaign and the state party, we spent about $13 million last time. And you know, I’m expecting to have to raise that kind of money again,” Barbour, 59, said during a recent interview with The Associated Press staff in Jackson.
Records show Musgrove spent about $7.7 million four years ago.
Posted by ladd at 01:33 PM in Governor, Elections, MS Newspapers, Analysis, News | Email this entry
Comments:
Try as they might, Gov. Barbour will be reelected by record proportions. The opposition would be better served by focusing on the Lt Governor’s office.
Posted by on 01/10 at 08:03 PM | #
Honestly, it’s the Lt. Gov’s office and Speaker which control most of the actual legislation. If those two wanted to conspire to push legislation on Mississippi, they could.
Posted by on 01/10 at 08:27 PM | #
