Barbour one of the Worst Governors - CREW
Apr 25, 2010 13:09 Filed in: Mississippi/Jackson Subjects Politics
Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW) has published its list of the Worst Governors in the nation, and our own Haley Barbour has made the top ten. According to CREW, Barbour’s accomplishment that brought about his membership in this exclusive list are that he:
• Allegedly laundered campaign contributions
• Refused to accept federal stimulus funds to expand unemployment insurance
• Used his position to enrich himself and his family members
You can download the entire report on Barbour here. At first blush, it appears that Barbour’s name tops the list as the very worse of the worst, but actually the list is alphabetical, so we don’t know if his score is worse or better than Sanford (SC) or Perry (TX). As Dr. Johnson once said of Rousseau and Voltaire “Why Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.”
In 19th Century England, the term “Bob’s your uncle” was a commentary on the good financial fortune that relatives of prominent Victorian politician Arthur Balfour experienced as a result of his influence. In Mississippi, we can quite appropriately say that if Haley’s your uncle, you are probably doing very well indeed.
• Allegedly laundered campaign contributions
• Refused to accept federal stimulus funds to expand unemployment insurance
• Used his position to enrich himself and his family members
You can download the entire report on Barbour here. At first blush, it appears that Barbour’s name tops the list as the very worse of the worst, but actually the list is alphabetical, so we don’t know if his score is worse or better than Sanford (SC) or Perry (TX). As Dr. Johnson once said of Rousseau and Voltaire “Why Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.”
In 19th Century England, the term “Bob’s your uncle” was a commentary on the good financial fortune that relatives of prominent Victorian politician Arthur Balfour experienced as a result of his influence. In Mississippi, we can quite appropriately say that if Haley’s your uncle, you are probably doing very well indeed.
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