AP Analysis: Barbour could still shape Miss. policies
Once a governor, always a governor in Mississippi. The title never fades, even when the time in office expires.
However, with his recent re-entry into public policy discussions about energy, Haley Barbour appears to be wearing “Gov.” as more than an honorary title.
Call him Shadow Gov. Barbour — a person who still pushes ideas that, for better or worse, might shape Mississippi’s economic future.
When Actual Gov. Phil Bryant was in Brazil on an economic development trip this past week, fellow Republican Barbour earned headlines with a speech defending rate increases for a new power plant and advocating the possibilities of nuclear waste reprocessing — two projects that aren’t far from the wallets of Barbour and his current professional colleagues.
AP
9/15/13
Magnolia Tribune
