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Can Trump and the GOP Shift Gears?

Mike Weisser
4 min readJul 16, 2024

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So, today I was watching Dana Bash on CNN interviewing Henry Barbour, who is a member of the RNC Program Committee and also happens to be the nephew of the former GOP Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour.

I was a V.P. of IT for a Fortune-100 insurance company when Haley Barbour was Governor and was also working as a lobbyist for the insurance industry in Washington, D.C. As a senior manager of my company, it was ‘suggested’ that I kick in a hundred bucks every year to a fund which the corporation then spent on lobbying efforts in D.C. and elsewhere.

About a week after I received my paycheck which contained the additional deduction, a video surfaced on the internet which showed Haley Barbour, completely drunk and putting his hands all over some young woman during an office shindig the previous week.

I couldn’t resist sending a note to the CEO of my company telling him that I hoped our payment to Barbour would thank him for his superb lobbying efforts as caught in the video, of which of course I sent a link to our CEO.

To his credit, the CEO didn’t reply to my note.

So, now we have the next-generation iteration of Haley Barbour, in the form of his nephew, who happens to be a managing partner of a lobbying firm, a different firm than the lobbying company his uncle founded in 1991 and to…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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