I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

I don't care who has my picture. He responded to criticism of his actions saying that 90% of those involved had already been released from prison many years earlier; he acted in order to allow them to find employment get professional licenses vote and hunt. Other second term activities
In September 2008 some Democrats accused Barbour of trying to influence the outcome of the 2008 Senate race by placing the candidates at the bottom of the ballot.

He was given a national spotlight in August 2005 when Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. Haley Reeves Barbour (born October 22 1947) is an American Republican politician who served as the 62nd Governor of Mississippi from 2004 to 2012.