InkBlots

The left-of-center New Republic magazine has painted a rather unflattering portrait of Gov. Haley Barbour. The Website is worth a visit just for a glimpse of the rather wicked artwork accompanying the article…

“Earlier this summer, The New Republic received a document that appeared to be a copy of Barbour’s blind trust agreement. It was dated February 27, 2004–six weeks after he’d become governor–and signed by Barbour and his trustee, a man named S. Griffin Norquist of Yazoo City, Mississippi. What immediately caught our eye were the assets the document catalogued: among them, nearly 50,000 shares of Interpublic Group, which had become BG&R’s corporate parent when the partners sold the firm in 1999. This seemed to contradict Barbour’s earlier statement. Either Barbour had delayed cutting ties to his firm, or he hadn’t really cut them at all.“