When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

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.