Mr Minor writes: “Henry Barbour, the nephew who managed Gov. Haley Barbour’s recent gubernatorial campaign, and his brother, Austin, have hooked up with Capitol Resources — an influential legislative lobbying group with a number of big corporate, gaming and oil clients. Capitol Resources, headed by two top lobbyists, Clare Hester and John Lundy, lists among its clients Kerr-McGee Corp., Lorillard Tobacco, Northrup Grumman Ship Systems and even the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. What especially got the effusive Holland’s attention were quotes from one of the Barbour nephews that ‘we’re going to assist … Republican candidates in raising money both nationally and at the state level.’”
That especially resonates down here since Henry Barbour, in the mid-1990s was then-National Republican Chairman Haley Barbour’s top aide in extracting big contributions from fat-cat corporate donors.
Henry was director of Team 100, the name indicating contributors who gave $100,000 or more. This column last year reported that several memorandums penned by Henry showed up in court documents from the RNC, revealing that he arranged insider contacts for several big corporate givers with powerful GOP figures.
The correspondence became public as part of court documents required to be filed when the RNC was challenging the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act.
