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What Haley Barbour didn't tell Fox News: he lobbied for Mexico on 'amnesty'
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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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; barbour; forgethaley; haleybarbour; hispandering; illegalaliens; immigration; justanotherrino
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To: Sub-Driver

I have had it!!!!
TIME FOR A NEW PARTY FOLKS!!!

This is what thanks we get for getting the GOP back in charge of the House?

CPAC is a joke, Conservatives have been getting bashed by the left for decades, now our own party is bashing and screwing us!!!

What’s next?


21 posted on 02/14/2011 10:38:16 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!)
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To: pallis

“Barbour isn’t going to run for president.”

I don’t think so either. Some of the GOP gentry here are thinking about pushing him, though. He has been on balance a decent governor, but would make a very poor national candidate IMO.


22 posted on 02/14/2011 10:39:47 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Sub-Driver; warsaw44; ColdOne; Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!; GQuagmire; wintertime; Fred Nerks; ...
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What Haley Barbour didn't tell Fox News: he lobbied for Mexico on 'amnesty'

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.”

. . . . Just fyi, y'all.

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23 posted on 02/14/2011 10:41:19 AM PST by LucyT
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

CPAC is a joke, Conservatives have been getting bashed by the left for decades, now our own party is bashing and screwing us!!!

What’s next?

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The merger of the two parties when the GOP is eventually abandoned.


24 posted on 02/14/2011 10:43:59 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Criteria for supporting a candidate is the question. Most defense lawyers have represented a slime ball. Divorce lawyers an adulterer. Attorneys for the Catholic church a child molestor. A real estate mogul might have done business with a wife beater. A fast food franchisee might have sold food to an illegal immigrant DUI driver.

Do we judge a candidate by those with whom he did business? If so, where do we draw the line?


25 posted on 02/14/2011 10:52:02 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: Psalm 144

“The merger of the two parties when the GOP is eventually abandoned....”

All ready happened. That’s what was going on at the State of the Union Address this year.

The RinoCrat’s in DC are more afraid of Sarah Palin and Constitutional government than they are of Al Queda. And i the end, that’s the fault of We the People...


26 posted on 02/14/2011 10:53:14 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: Tulane

“...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?”

NO! You’ll die, as we all know CNN will never relate the facts as they pertain to BHO. This is not worth dying for, in my estimation.

Anyway, FR is much better at getting out the truth about Obama and you don’t have to hold your breath.

Whew! That was a close one!


27 posted on 02/14/2011 10:55:05 AM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Talk about a one issue voter, on this issue I am a one issue voter. Good Bye Haley.


28 posted on 02/14/2011 11:02:15 AM PST by lone star annie
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To: JohnG45

Money. Finance. Corporatism.

They’re pretty steady on that.


29 posted on 02/14/2011 11:10:53 AM PST by Leisler (Our debts are someone's profit. Follow the money, the vig.....)
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s off my list now.


30 posted on 02/14/2011 11:10:55 AM PST by ChuckHam
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To: spintreebob
"Do we judge a candidate by those with whom he did business.? Where do we draw the line?"

Speaking for myself selling out the real citizens of our country in favor of alien invaders is pretty much my line in the sand.

But then again, he lost me when he went into partnership with the DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe on the very swank capitol hill restaurant, The Caucus Room.

31 posted on 02/14/2011 11:12:12 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Sub-Driver

Exit stage “left”...


32 posted on 02/14/2011 11:32:10 AM PST by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

Haley Barbour....Anti-American.

Cannot support anyone who even has thought of Illegal Alien Amnesty.

I never was much of a fan of Barbour. When that Natalee Holloway case broke out, and Aruba was covering up for the perps....a number of Southern governors joined a boycott of Aruba...except Barbour...who claimed that it would “hurt trade between Mississippi and Aruba”.

Since there is no trade between Aruba and Mississippi, and, a boycott of Aruba would have been a boon to the Miss. Gulf Coast beaches and casinos....Barbour’s refusal to join other Southern governors of a boycott reeked of Free Trade Communism on Barbour’s part....only a fool, idiot, or Free Trader would think Aruba and Mississippi had extensive trading going on. Even sadder, Holloway was born and raised in Mississippi...and Barbour snubbed her and her family.

That always rubbed me the wrong way with Barbour...and I never trust anyone who values foreigners over their own citizens. Barbour would make a horrible President


33 posted on 02/14/2011 11:34:27 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Newt Gingrich and Chris Matthews: Seperated at Birth??)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a traitor! Anyone lobbying for invasion by a foreign nation should be tried for sedition and hanged!


34 posted on 02/14/2011 11:44:43 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Every once in a while the MSM does us a favor.

Next!


35 posted on 02/14/2011 11:45:58 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: oldbill

I’ve noticed the same thing, establishment Republicans just don’t get it on amnesty.

I’ve given it some thought and have come the conclusion that this is because their lives have not been personally effected by the criminal illegals that impact the lives of so many of us. The only illegals that these elitist Republicans come into contact with are the nannies, the housekeepers, the hard working landscapers or care givers that have truly come to this country to become a part of of our society. They don’t experience the drive by shooting or the gang violence and other problems in their kid’s school, even if their kids happen to go to public school (which most of them don’t), it just not in their neighborhoods.

Take some of these elitists and put them in a house in Mesa, AZ, or somewhere in Texas and make them live there for a year. Make them send their kids to the local public school and see if they change their tune. Let them see what it’s like to have helicopters flying over their homes at night, shining spot lights into their yards as the authorities chase some illegals who were just involved in an accident, or robbing a 7-11. Then ask them how they feel about illegal immigration.


36 posted on 02/14/2011 11:49:04 AM PST by Eva
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought it was lemmings that all ran off a cliff every once in a while, not RINOs.


37 posted on 02/14/2011 11:55:11 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: spintreebob

Yes. National security and amnesty are two great places to start.


38 posted on 02/14/2011 11:56:35 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

Ping!

Where does he stand now?


39 posted on 02/14/2011 12:23:39 PM PST by HiJinx (What new decade?)
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To: HiJinx

He’s standing in position eight on my team, over-correcting for a righty at the plate.


40 posted on 02/14/2011 12:30:06 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Here's the proof of Obama's U. S. citizenship: " " Good enough for our 3 branches...)
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