Posted on 02/14/2011 10:15:08 AM PST by Sub-Driver
What Haley Barbour didn't tell Fox News: he lobbied for Mexico on 'amnesty' By: Time Magazine's Michael Scherer
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour made the case Sunday on Fox News that his career as a high-powered federal lobbyist for domestic corporations and foreign governments would be an asset if he ran for President in 2012.
Barbour may be eager to showcase his record, but one of Barbour's foreign lobbying clients could cause him some troubles in the 2012 Republican primary, if he decides to run. According to a State Department filing by Barbour's former lobbying firm, The Embassy of Mexico decided to retain Barbour's services on August 15, 2001, to work on, among other things, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for foreigners living illegally in the United States—what opponents of immigration reform call “amnesty.”
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Buh bye Haley.
Scratch that one.
bttt
It’s a busy RINO season......
However, I'm not so certain that Gov. Barbour, despite his honorable Conservative credentials, will appeal to the sector of voters who were turned-off by old age (a la, Juan McSame 2008).
What is it with those Mississippi boys? Trent Lott was a big amnesty pusher in the Senate.
Get out of here Haley.
Boss Hogg will not get the nomination. I remember him as a great RNC Chairman. However, His lobbying gigs, especially with amnesty will not pass the smell test, though. I don’t blame him in trying to make a living, but this will not help him.
I am from Mississippi (live in No. Virginia now)— I like Haley Barbour. This obviously isn’t good. I just hope CNN applies the same kind of scrutiny to the President when election season kicks into full swing. Should I hold my breath?
For the record, I would not support Barbour in the primary. Though if he were the nominee (unlikely) I would vote for him in a second over Obama.
Least we all forget ole Haley is always up for stealing private property to increase tax revenue.
They certainly never put the word in a headline before.
Boy, these guys have some real core values, don’t they?
Well, well, well. Haley we hardly knew ya.
Haley Barbour is a traitor.
His stance is even worse than McCain and Lindsey Graham.
I don’t know how the people of Mississippi could have elected a person who was an agent of a foreign government deliberately interfering in our internal affairs by granting millions of Mexican foreign nationals citizenship.
Can you imaging the US buying off a foreign country to allow millions of American illegals citizenship in that country?
There would be a revolution.
I think our country is lost.
We have become too emasculated and wimpy to save it from traitors who would sell us out to foreign interests.
Barbour isn’t going to run for president.
Too many people from the old establishment bought into the whole globalist, open borders, growth by immigration hype. Mention culture to them, and they snicker. Mention debt based wealth, and they brush you off as an idiot. Mention subsidized, cheap labor, and they wink among themselves. Mention the strain on the infrastructure, and they show you the door. Now it is time to show all of the old establishment guys who enabled illegal immigration the door. We don’t need that kind of thinking anymore.
I like Haley, so I hope he does well outside of the national policy arena.
Republicans in the ruling class have no clue about how much amnesty and open borders are fatal flaws with the overwhelming majority of American voters - Republican, conservative, working class Democrats.
Too many of these “promising” “conservative” candidates - Barbour, Christie, Romney, Daniels, etc., etc., are DOA with real American voters because of their stand on amnesty. This was so evident at CPAC, which is NOT an assembly of true American-values conservatives,but of political insiders and elites who think that the body politic is a bunch of rubes whose wishes they can ignore because they are so much better and smarter than them. None of them, living in their mansions in gated communities from where their spoiled children go off to private schools, have a clue as to what illegal immigration is doing to the average American’s healthcare, school systems, job opportunities, and safety.
Amnesty and open borders from their perspective are just distant statistics on labor costs and voter registrations that can be wielded to their personal benefit, power, and enrichment.
Understand this - any Republican who does not take a strong stand on securing the borders and banning all amnesty has a chance of winning an election. They might secure the nomination because that is a game amongst insiders and the political class, but there will be no support for them come election. They won’t get the volunteer workers; they won’t get the grass roots contributions, and they won’t get the stay-at-home vote.
The parade of amnesty lovers at CPAC shows that the Republicans still have a long way to go before Americans can embrace them.
“What is it with those Mississippi boys?”
The allure of a source of cheap labor combined with a work ethic.
Cheap labor is available here in abundance, but it is very, very, very slothful and incompetent as a rule. I am attempting some buildout which is a simple renovation. I am on the ninth contractor, and considering a tenth as the project has stalled out yet again.
Illegals would have finished the project long ago and moved on. That is the allure.
The GOP wants cheap labor. The Democrats want cheap vote fraud. Per usual, a choice between poisons.
The author of this article is a hard-core Lefty.
Time, Mother Jones, Salon, etc.
The first question to ask should be, “Is this even true?”, before declaring Barbour as a boogyman.
They understand completely. They don't care. Its the sure-fire way for the RinoCrat Oligarchy to avoid coming Constitutional accountability
as well as improving the job security of the federal bureaucratic parasitic class.
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