December 27, 2010
By: Juanita Jean Herownself
Category: Uncategorized
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Juanita’s favorite activity is watching Republican Presidential candidates fall like ball bearings off a workshop table on to a metal floor. It’s loud, it makes a lot of mess, but it’s plenty funny to watch them scatter all over the floor.
And you have to admit that Haley Barbour is one enormous ball bearing.
The Mississippi state plane, a zippy Cessna Citation with a capacity of 12, is a favorite of corporate executives and the wealthy, and its principal passenger, Gov. Haley Barbour, might easily be mistaken for one of them when he arrives with a small entourage at airports in Washington, Las Vegas or New York, a car and driver waiting there at their disposal.
Barbour has traveled extensively on the jet, brushing off suggestions from Mississippi Democrats that he give it up in favor of a more modest propeller plane for his travel. The trips, according to a POLITICO review of the Cessna’s flight manifest since 2007, have mixed state business with both pleasure and national politics.
“Dude, it’s Mississippi,” Juanita pleads. “Mississippi is the only state that keeps Texas from being last in everything. Mississippi is the poorest state in the whole USA, but Haley Barbour takes the state jet to football games and wrestling matches?”
“Haley Barbour is so cold blooded that you could get frostbite taking his pulse,” Juanita says.