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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
It’s nice to see another Mississippi ping...thank you. ;o)
As far as Haley’s firm representing Mexico...so what?
That’s what lobbyists do...represent paying customers. It’s called Capitalism, people!
Frankly, politicians have made a big to do about lobbyists, not citizens. That’s how they have deflected the fact that their votes were bought and paid for. They passed the buck and blamed the lobbyists. No Congressman or Senator can say that the money lobbyists gave them was innocent, unless said money was given without strings attached. So, ultimately, the buck stops with the Congressmen and Senators who voted the “right” way just to get the money.
IOW, they sold their votes. If they didn’t believe in the issue they were supporting, they could have said, “No!”, not accepted the money offered, and voted their consciences.
Forget big corps, small businesses contribute to PACs and they have lobbyists. PACs and their lobbyists represent small businesses, and others who wouldn’t ordinarily have a voice in Washington, DC.
If Haley does run for President, he will be called the Former Lobbyist and Presidential Candidate Hayley Barbour, just as he was called the Former Lobbyist and Gubernatorial Candidate Haley Barbour. ;o)
Answering your ping in this post. Good to “see” all of you! ;o)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2673511/posts?page=61#61
Are there any politicans left Mexico or China hasn’t hired yet?
But it is my point, and seems to be the point of many others on this thread.
Slavery.
I’ve tried to tell some hard headed GOP faithfuls about Haley and his hispandering. Just another politician willing to sell out his country for a few lobbying dollars.
“What is it with those Mississippi boys? Trent Lott was a big amnesty pusher in the Senate.”
Follow the $$$$....
“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.”
It’s true. And it’s too bad some of the right side media doesn’t have the cajones to bring it up! There are plenty of sources for this and some of us have tried for years to get it out.
[snip]Back in September he said in an interview with the Hoover Institution that Latino immigrants to the Gulf Coast post-Katrina were instrumental to recovery work. He began by saying that his first priority regarding immigration reform would be to “secure” the country’s borders. Then he said something quite striking, not just for a Republican but for a member of either party these days:
A lot of it is just common sense. And common sense tell us we’re not going to take 10 or 12 or 14 million people and put them in jail or deport them. We’re not going to do it, and we need to quit—some people need to quit acting like we are and let’s talk about real solutions.
Now comes a blast from the governor’s past (via Swampland) revealing that Barbour was on Mexico’s payroll back in 2001. He was paid $35,000 a month to help extend a “mini-amnesty” provision that would allow some 300,000 undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to get visas or green cards without what’s called “touchback,” which requires that people return to their country of origin for anywhere from three to 10 years before they can get their papers.
“[W]e had our issues with Lott too and Trent’s faggot son got Dixie banned at Ole Miss..”
I did not know this. I am not one bit surprised though.
foreign countrys pay our lawyers to lobby congress to make their citizens our citizens?
bttt
I buy the lobbiest defense to a point. That point ends where I could not agree with the goals the client wanted to achieve. That being my bottom line, I would have to view someone crossing that line (in accordance with my beliefs) quite negatively.
We simply must not support people who sell us or our nation out for a buck.
I’m making no statement at this point concerning Barbour beyond that.
sure did
head cheerleader like daddy
dixie
flag
colonel reb
hope the lefties and race baiters are happy
I agree with you to a point, too. I understand Haley has denied this allegation, as I saw on HotAir.
“One reason I’ve been successful as Governor is that I’m plain-spoken and use common sense. I tell people what I think, not what I think they want to hear.
“Before there can be immigration reform, we must secure our borders. Only after that can any reforms be achieved, and those can’t include amnesty.
“Everybody knows we are not going to put ten or twelve million people in jail and deport them. Once the border is secure, we should develop a responsible guest-worker program and it can’t include amnesty.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/14/barbour-lobbied-for-mini-amnesty/
This...sounds like Haley to me, and not the other allegations. I certainly respect your right to decide for yourself.
“last great MS senator was a Dixiecrat..John Stennis”
I couldn’t agree with you more.
He was considered to be the Gentleman On The Hill.
He and my daddy were friends...
“last great MS senator was a Dixiecrat..John Stennis”
I couldn’t agree with you more.
He was considered to be the Gentleman On The Hill.
He and my daddy were friends...
Ooops!
Sorry about that. ;o)
I appreciate your note. I’ve been railing on this issue since the early 1990s. It was patently obvious where we were headed if we didn’t start enforcing our immigration laws.
Let me ask you a question. Why weren’t we being over-run with illegals in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s? When we granted amnesty in 1986, 3.5 million people signed on. Those people had come here over the prior twenty years.
During the early years of the Bush administration we had half that number pouring across our borders every year. During one nine month period 900,000 illegals were caught entering our nation. And traditionally, the INS reported they only caught about 10 to 15% of those coming in. And yet, to listen to our government, the illegal alien population only grew from 9 million when Bush came into office, to 11 million when Obama did.
E N F O R C E M E N T !
That’s it. We were allowing our nation to be flooded, and hobbling law enforcement, or allowing cities to hobble law enforcement so they couldn’t detain and deport.
When someone like Barbour states that we need to get our borders under control first, they’re telegraphing to me that they SIMPLY REFUSE to enforce our laws NOW.
In the real world, I would tell sanctuary cities and cities that refused to allow officers to detain and deport, that their last tax dime from the federal government had already been received until they enforced U. S. law. No more would be forthcoming.
What Barbour is doing, is using double-talk. It sounds real nice until you start to think about what he has said, really means. He knows we’ll never get that border under control, because nobody will build that fence.
We can burn trillions to keep our hands warm, but can’t spent a few billion to build the fence.
We didn’t have a fence in the 70s. We don’t really need a fence today. Immigration raids, detain and deport enforcement, outlawing bank accounts and private property ownership..., there are ways to make people return home. And if they can’t eat here, or stay in out of the rain, they’ll go home.
One thing I agree with Haley on. We aren’t going to arrest 12 million people. If we arrest 500,000 over a year or two and deport them, and quit giving them a free ride, the other 11.5 million will self deport.
Sadly, he doesn’t know this. Otherwise he wouldn’t use the old conversation killer line. It’ beneath him. He’s a better man than that. At least I thought he was.
That is an excellent post. I can’t say that I disagree with any of your thoughts, either.
That makes me sad...in fact, the entire situation in DC makes me very sad. :o(
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