<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - barbour</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/barbour</link><description>Newsvine - barbour</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:08:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:46:18 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Man pardoned by Barbour involved in fatal shooting</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Mississippi sheriff says one of the ex-prisoners who received a pardon last year from the state's then-governor was involved in exchange of gunfire that killed another man.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Elliott Jr.]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jack Elliott Jr.]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/11/16467460-man-pardoned-by-barbour-involved-in-fatal-shooting</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/11/16467460-man-pardoned-by-barbour-involved-in-fatal-shooting</guid><category>us</category><category>shooting</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:07:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>APNewsBreak: Miss. pardoned inmates to be freed</title>
<description><![CDATA[Four inmates pardoned by former Gov. Haley Barbour are scheduled to be released Saturday, including a South African man whose pardon had the support of a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a former South African president.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/08/10612924-apnewsbreak-miss-pardoned-inmates-to-be-freed</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/08/10612924-apnewsbreak-miss-pardoned-inmates-to-be-freed</guid><category>us</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>nobel-peace-prize</category><category>south-african</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><category>mississippi-supreme-court</category><pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 19:56:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Former GOP head: Nomination could go to convention</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour says the fight for the GOP presidential nomination could go all the way to the convention.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/26/10517246-former-gop-head-nomination-could-go-to-convention</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/26/10517246-former-gop-head-nomination-could-go-to-convention</guid><category>campaign</category><category>politics</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>republican</category><category>barbour</category><category>former-republican-party</category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:30:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Miss high court hears challenge to Barbour pardons</title>
<description><![CDATA[Feuding attorneys asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday to determine the validity of pardons that Haley Barbour gave to convicted killers and other convicts during his final days as governor.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/09/10361544-miss-high-court-hears-challenge-to-barbour-pardons</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/09/10361544-miss-high-court-hears-challenge-to-barbour-pardons</guid><category>us</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><category>mississippi-supreme-court</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:02:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a21df5d8-ab54-4e51-8b39-b9238d43e0e9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="357" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a21df5d8-ab54-4e51-8b39-b9238d43e0e9.jpg" width="120" height="172" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Jess H. Dickinson questions an attorney for a group of former inmates arguing that former Gov. Haley Barbour's pardons of them are valid, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in Jackson, Miss.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c80d25db-eefd-49b1-998d-b8ebffa01513.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c80d25db-eefd-49b1-998d-b8ebffa01513.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood argues before the Mississippi Supreme Court that several last minute pardons  by former Gov. Haley Barbour, including those of five former Governor's Mansion trusties, did not meet the requirements as established in the state constitution, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/89d5decb-880a-4484-ab3c-8225adbdb8d8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/89d5decb-880a-4484-ab3c-8225adbdb8d8.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mississippi Supreme Court Justices Michael K. Randolph, left, George C. Carlson, Jr., and Chief Justice William Waller Jr., consider responses from inmate attorneys on whether the pardons granted them by former Gov. Haley Barbour are valid during arguments in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e6fc5862-d97c-48d8-8136-8e5c818b6e6a.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="219" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e6fc5862-d97c-48d8-8136-8e5c818b6e6a.jpg" width="120" height="66" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Jess H. Dickinson, left, listens as Justice Ann H. Lamar asks questions of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood as to why he believes a number of last minute pardons by former Gov. Haley Barbour are not valid Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 in chambers in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, POOL)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/70d79ff9-d5bd-48d1-a1aa-6433ba21e80d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="299" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/70d79ff9-d5bd-48d1-a1aa-6433ba21e80d.jpg" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Attorney Charles Griffin, attorney for former Gov. Haley Barbour, argues before the Mississippi Supreme Court that his client's pardons are not reviewable and as such should not be overturned, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in Jackson, Miss. Griffin and several attorneys are trying to get the court to rule Barbour's last minute pardons are valid. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, POOL)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6a2b043b-f9f3-43e3-8d0d-252d73f34a29.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6a2b043b-f9f3-43e3-8d0d-252d73f34a29.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Attorney Thomas Fortner, one of several attorneys representing a group of former inmates tell the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, that former Gov. Haley Barbour's pardons of them are valid at a lengthy hearing in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b6471c80-b337-4beb-8d76-53f6b5e1b976.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="248" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b6471c80-b337-4beb-8d76-53f6b5e1b976.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Attorney Thomas Fortner's hand reaches out for a copy of the state's constitution during a hearing before the Mississippi Supreme Court for a group of former inmates arguing that the last-minute pardons granted them by Gov. Haley Barbour are valid, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/36812229-8048-4fdc-a10c-62ca5de50d82.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/36812229-8048-4fdc-a10c-62ca5de50d82.jpg" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2012 file photograph, former Gov. Haley Barbour tells reporters that says he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference in Ridgeland, Miss. A month after Barbour's pardons were issued, the state Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 on whether those pardons complied with the letter of the law. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/5e3a1e06-a0df-4e7d-b966-9362474032a9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/5e3a1e06-a0df-4e7d-b966-9362474032a9.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This Jan. 9, 2012 photo shows gunshot survivor Randy Walker, with his relatives and those of Tammy Ellis Gatlin who was killed in the same incident caused by recently pardoned killer David Gatlin, calling for an end to such end-of-tenure pardons by outgoing governors at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. A month after former Gov. Haley Barbour ended two terms in office by pardoning nearly 200 people including convicted killers, Mississippi's highest court will take up the issue of whether those pardons complied with the letter of the law. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Miss. AG: Pardoned killer located in Wyoming</title>
<description><![CDATA[Authorities say a convicted killer who had missed a court hearing after being pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was in Wyoming with his fiancée and initially drove off when he was found by investigators.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10273468-miss-ag-pardoned-killer-located-in-wyoming</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10273468-miss-ag-pardoned-killer-located-in-wyoming</guid><category>us</category><category>2nd</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>ld</category><category>writethru</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:13:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Miss. AG: Pardoned killer located in Wyoming</title>
<description><![CDATA[Authorities say a convicted killer who went missing after being pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was in Wyoming with his fiance and tried to flee when he was found by investigators.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10272933-miss-ag-pardoned-killer-located-in-wyoming</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10272933-miss-ag-pardoned-killer-located-in-wyoming</guid><category>us</category><category>1st</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>ld</category><category>writethru</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:36:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Man gets DUI between applying for, getting pardon</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and parole officials said Saturday that they didn't know a man was charged with DUI after a fatal wreck that happened between the time he applied for a pardon and the time Barbour granted it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10272582-man-gets-dui-between-applying-for-getting-pardon</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10272582-man-gets-dui-between-applying-for-getting-pardon</guid><category>us</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><category>jim-hood</category><category>mississippi-supreme-court</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:26:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>APNewsBreak: No files on pardoned Miss. killers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Pardon files are missing or don't exist for four convicted killers and another man who worked as trusties at the Governor's Mansion and were pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour during his final days in office.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/25/10236961-apnewsbreak-no-files-on-pardoned-miss-killers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/25/10236961-apnewsbreak-no-files-on-pardoned-miss-killers</guid><category>us</category><category>missing</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><category>files</category><category>mississippi-governor</category><category>missing-files</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:24:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Miss. judge delays decision on pardoned inmates</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Mississippi judge has delayed a decision on whether to invalidate some pardons, including of convicted killers, issued by Haley Barbour in his final days as governor.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/20/10202085-miss-judge-delays-decision-on-pardoned-inmates</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/20/10202085-miss-judge-delays-decision-on-pardoned-inmates</guid><category>us</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><category>parole-board</category><category>mississippi-parole-board</category><category>when-thomas-ailes</category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:12:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/73efafcf-ca9f-4f11-9265-506793d02546.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="288" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/73efafcf-ca9f-4f11-9265-506793d02546.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Jan. 18, 2012 photograph, on the porch of his Wesson, Miss., home, Thomas Ailes displays Executive Order No. 1083, which pardons him for a marijuana conviction from the 1970s. The Vietnam veteran drove to Jackson to pick up the executive order from the Mississippi Parole Board after first learning of the pardon from a friend earlier this month. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e0e09172-2940-47b4-8b07-1e717eb50ea1.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e0e09172-2940-47b4-8b07-1e717eb50ea1.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Jan. 18, 2012 photograph, Thomas Ailes speaks about his pardon outside his Wesson, Miss., home while showing some deer meat he plans to cook for family and friends. Ailes, who received the pardon from Gov. Haley Barbour earlier this month, first heard about it from a friend, and then once confirming the pardon was issued, drove to Jackson to pick up the executive order from the Mississippi Parole Board pardoning him for a marijuana conviction from the 1970s. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/f657c34c-f703-4232-93ce-ec819ed1d726.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/f657c34c-f703-4232-93ce-ec819ed1d726.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Jan. 18, 2012 photograph, Thomas Ailes laughs on the porch of his Wesson, Miss., home as he recalls his reaction to receiving a pardon from Gov. Haley Barbour earlier this month. The Vietnam veteran drove to Jackson to pick up the executive order from the Mississippi Parole Board pardoning him for a marijuana conviction from the 1970s. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/36aa774e-5484-4e0e-a1ff-378af05e4ff9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/36aa774e-5484-4e0e-a1ff-378af05e4ff9.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Jan. 18, 2012 photograph, Thomas Ailes recalls the events that led to his 1970s marijuana conviction, while at his Wesson, Miss., home. Ailes received a pardon from Gov. Haley Barbour earlier this month. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Trusties booted from Governor's Mansion in Miss.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Amid controversy over pardons issued by then-Gov. Haley Barbour, inmate trusties will no longer work at Mississippi's Governor's Mansion.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Elliott Jr.]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jack Elliott Jr.]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/20/10198051-trusties-booted-from-governors-mansion-in-miss</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/20/10198051-trusties-booted-from-governors-mansion-in-miss</guid><category>us</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><category>phil-bryant</category><category>trusties</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:46:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Barbour: No pardon for sisters showing no remorse</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says two sisters released last year on the condition one donate a kidney to the other showed no remorse for their crime so they weren't included among 200 people he gave a full pardon.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/13/10152473-barbour-no-pardon-for-sisters-showing-no-remorse</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/13/10152473-barbour-no-pardon-for-sisters-showing-no-remorse</guid><category>us</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>sisters</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:04:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/d90392e5-274d-4d85-b988-7075526c7fc7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="490" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/d90392e5-274d-4d85-b988-7075526c7fc7.jpg" width="120" height="147" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2011 file photo, Jamie Scott, left, and her sister Gladys Scott answer questions during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., following the suspension of their life sentences from a Mississippi prison after serving 16 years for an armed robbery on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other. On Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, Chokwe Lumumba, the sisters' lawyer, said they were saddened and disappointed they weren't among dozens receiving full pardons from former Gov. Haley Barbour. Barbour granted more than 200 reprieves in his final days in office. Most were full pardons, though some received suspended sentences. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/92629607-ce08-4018-8a84-3a9064eba148.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="488" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/92629607-ce08-4018-8a84-3a9064eba148.jpg" width="120" height="146" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour, left, and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves confer during the inauguration of Gov. Phil Bryant at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012.  Barbour in his final days as Mississippi governor gave pardons or early release to dozens of people including 29 whose crimes were listed as murder, manslaughter or homicide state records show. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Ex-Gov. Barbour 'very comfortable' with pardons</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Friday he's "very comfortable" with his final-days decisions to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people, including convicted killers &#8212; decisions that outraged victims' families and dismayed even some of his most devoted supporters.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/13/10151172-ex-gov-barbour-very-comfortable-with-pardons</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/13/10151172-ex-gov-barbour-very-comfortable-with-pardons</guid><category>us</category><category>interview</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:30:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/77dc80c5-e070-4653-bdb2-f1b1427804a1.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="391" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/77dc80c5-e070-4653-bdb2-f1b1427804a1.jpg" width="120" height="157" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour tells reporters that  he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4de673dd-ea88-437c-bc57-c4b9fa6286bd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="282" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4de673dd-ea88-437c-bc57-c4b9fa6286bd.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour tells reporters that he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/58016806-7a1e-4238-a1eb-20026fb48624.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/58016806-7a1e-4238-a1eb-20026fb48624.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour tears up while recalling his family's experiences with trustees, telling reporters that says he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/26e30cf4-dd19-4f27-9988-c01cbc8d4685.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/26e30cf4-dd19-4f27-9988-c01cbc8d4685.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour pauses while recalling his family's experiences with trustees, telling reporters that  he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/48e2eaba-c371-496f-9916-93c23f18dcfb.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/48e2eaba-c371-496f-9916-93c23f18dcfb.jpg" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour says he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/351197b4-62cc-4806-bd77-ceb8872514c6.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/351197b4-62cc-4806-bd77-ceb8872514c6.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour tells reporters that  he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9519e098-fef0-4f64-a98e-ff02a699ece7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9519e098-fef0-4f64-a98e-ff02a699ece7.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A stenographer's screen displays the comments of former Gov. Haley Barbour as he speaks to reporters regarding his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/0ff68299-fee1-47e2-b51d-6134320deb5b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/0ff68299-fee1-47e2-b51d-6134320deb5b.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour tears up while recalling his family's experiences with trustees, telling reporters that  he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/acef4a80-58c0-41e7-bdf9-8dc58c0707e2.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/acef4a80-58c0-41e7-bdf9-8dc58c0707e2.jpg" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour tells reporters that  he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/119fa137-8ca5-410e-b682-caaa93330894.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/119fa137-8ca5-410e-b682-caaa93330894.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour tells reporters that  he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/2321bc36-6cbb-49fe-80ee-ca239fb79499.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/2321bc36-6cbb-49fe-80ee-ca239fb79499.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour leaves a news conference after telling reporters that he's &quot;very comfortable&quot; with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people in the last days in office at a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Ridgeland, Miss. Barbour said during his first interview on the pardons that nearly 190 of the people who got pardons or other reprieves had already been released from prison. Only 10, he said, have been or will be fully released from prison. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Outgoing Miss. guv pardons Brett Favre's brother</title>
<description><![CDATA[The brother of former NFL quarterback and Mississippi native Brett Favre has been pardoned by Haley Barbour, whose last day as governor was Tuesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/10/10101417-outgoing-miss-guv-pardons-brett-favres-brother</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/10/10101417-outgoing-miss-guv-pardons-brett-favres-brother</guid><category>us</category><category>brother</category><category>favre</category><category>brett-favre</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:51:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Lawyer: Miss. sisters will push new gov for pardon</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two sisters released from a Mississippi prison last year on condition that one donate a kidney to the other were saddened and disappointed they weren't among dozens receiving full pardons from the governor, one of the women said Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/10/10099756-lawyer-miss-sisters-will-push-new-gov-for-pardon</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/10/10099756-lawyer-miss-sisters-will-push-new-gov-for-pardon</guid><category>us</category><category>associated-press</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>pardons</category><category>republican-haley-barbour</category><category>azikiwe-kambule</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:39:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/d90392e5-274d-4d85-b988-7075526c7fc7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="490" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/d90392e5-274d-4d85-b988-7075526c7fc7.jpg" width="120" height="147" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2011 file photo, Jamie Scott, left, and her sister Gladys Scott answer questions during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., following the suspension of their life sentences from a Mississippi prison after serving 16 years for an armed robbery on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other. On Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, Chokwe Lumumba, the sisters' lawyer, said they were saddened and disappointed they weren't among dozens receiving full pardons from former Gov. Haley Barbour. Barbour granted more than 200 reprieves in his final days in office. Most were full pardons, though some received suspended sentences. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/92629607-ce08-4018-8a84-3a9064eba148.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="488" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/92629607-ce08-4018-8a84-3a9064eba148.jpg" width="120" height="146" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Gov. Haley Barbour, left, and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves confer during the inauguration of Gov. Phil Bryant at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012.  Barbour in his final days as Mississippi governor gave pardons or early release to dozens of people including 29 whose crimes were listed as murder, manslaughter or homicide state records show. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Outgoing Miss. Gov. Barbour pardons 4 killers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has pardoned at least four convicted killers who worked as inmate trusties at the Governor's Mansion, including a man who was denied parole less than two weeks ago.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Holbrook Mohr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/09/10061466-outgoing-miss-gov-barbour-pardons-4-killers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/09/10061466-outgoing-miss-gov-barbour-pardons-4-killers</guid><category>us</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>pardon</category><category>barbour</category><category>mississippi-democrats</category><category>barbour-pardon</category><pubDate>Mon, 9 Jan 2012 04:49:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/66734bed-dceb-4015-9230-0a8cb9d9bba9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/66734bed-dceb-4015-9230-0a8cb9d9bba9.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2011 file photo, Gov. Haley Barbour urges the next administration and lawmakers to curb spending and streamline state services as he presents his Fiscal Year 2013 Executive Budget Recommendation in Jackson, Miss. Outgoing Gov. Barbour has pardoned at least four convicted killers who worked as inmate trusties at the Governor's Mansion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>APNewsbreak: Barbour to return to lobbying firm</title>
<description><![CDATA[When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour leaves office Jan. 10, he'll return to the lobbying firm he founded in 1991]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/21/9614196-apnewsbreak-barbour-to-return-to-lobbying-firm</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/21/9614196-apnewsbreak-barbour-to-return-to-lobbying-firm</guid><category>us</category><category>future</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:43:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Barbour votes for life-at-fertilization initiative</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Thursday he voted after all for a state ballot initiative that would declare life begins at fertilization.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/03/8621947-barbour-votes-for-life-at-fertilization-initiative</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/03/8621947-barbour-votes-for-life-at-fertilization-initiative</guid><category>us</category><category>abortion</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>amendment</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:39:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Last original member of Four Freshmen dies at 82</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ross Barbour, who was the last original member of the influential 1950s harmonizing group the Four Freshmen, has died in Southern California at 82.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/23/7449300-last-original-member-of-four-freshmen-dies-at-82</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/23/7449300-last-original-member-of-four-freshmen-dies-at-82</guid><category>us</category><category>obit</category><category>southern-california</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>ross-barbour</category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:34:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Broadway actor who had teen sex drops Calif. show</title>
<description><![CDATA[Broadway actor James Barbour is leaving a San Diego production of "The Rocky Horror Show" days after it was revealed that he had sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/19/7416177-broadway-actor-who-had-teen-sex-drops-calif-show</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/19/7416177-broadway-actor-who-had-teen-sex-drops-calif-show</guid><category>us</category><category>san-diego</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><category>james-barbour</category><category>rocky-horror-show"</category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:25:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Miss. gov grew up with flood history in his family</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has a calm but urgent tone when he tells people in low-lying areas to prepare for possible flooding from the Mississippi River.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/07/6603719-miss-gov-grew-up-with-flood-history-in-his-family</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/07/6603719-miss-gov-grew-up-with-flood-history-in-his-family</guid><category>us</category><category>flooding</category><category>mississippi-river</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2011 19:35:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Barbour didn't think he could beat Obama</title>
<description><![CDATA[ - Haley Barbour ultimately decided not to run for president after concluding that Barack Obama will be too tough to beat in a general election race, according to two advisers familiar with the Mississippi governor’s decision making. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Isikoff]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Michael Isikoff]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/26/6534785-barbour-didnt-think-he-could-beat-obama</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/26/6534785-barbour-didnt-think-he-could-beat-obama</guid><category>gop</category><category>news</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>barbour</category><category>advisers</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>decision-2012</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:03:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/msnh-syriaunrests-635p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="155" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/msnh-syriaunrests-635p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="47" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour takes questions from reporters during the California Republican Convention in Sacramento, Calif., Saturday, March 19, 2011. Barbour is the featured speaker at the Convention dinner.(AP Photo/Steve Yeater)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Miss. Gov. Barbour rules out 2012 presidential run</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour ruled out a 2012 presidential bid on Monday, saying he lacked the necessary "absolute fire in the belly" to run and wasn't ready for the "all-consuming effort."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/25/6526681-miss-gov-barbour-rules-out-2012-presidential-run</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/25/6526681-miss-gov-barbour-rules-out-2012-presidential-run</guid><category>us</category><category>2012</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:25:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/d2b3e4c8-e9ce-4c42-81ee-202c666ecd4d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/d2b3e4c8-e9ce-4c42-81ee-202c666ecd4d.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 21, 2011 file photo, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour speaks in Jackson, Miss. Barbour says he won't be a presidential candidate for 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ca50a175-58d5-4f54-af93-f24cc897528c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="358" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ca50a175-58d5-4f54-af93-f24cc897528c.jpg" width="120" height="108" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 12, 2011 file photo, Mississippi Gov. Rep. Haley Barbour gestures while addressing the Congressional Health Care Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barbour says he won't be a presidential candidate for 2012.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Miss. Gov. Barbour has surgery for lower back pain</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, has returned to the Governor's Mansion after having surgery to relieve lower back pain.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/18/6491293-miss-gov-barbour-has-surgery-for-lower-back-pain</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/18/6491293-miss-gov-barbour-has-surgery-for-lower-back-pain</guid><category>us</category><category>surgery</category><category>back</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:46:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>FACT CHECK: Barbour Medicaid claim off base</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, played fast and loose with his state's Medicaid enrollment numbers this week as he spoke in Washington and chatted up voters in the early primary state of New Hampshire.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Emily Wagster Pettus]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/14/6472558-fact-check-barbour-medicaid-claim-off-base</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/14/6472558-fact-check-barbour-medicaid-claim-off-base</guid><category>us</category><category>medicaid</category><category>new-hampshire</category><category>capitol-hill</category><category>check</category><category>us-news</category><category>fact</category><category>barbour</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:22:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a0c36d82-0c11-478c-a3bb-2e0fa17fbfb6.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="484" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a0c36d82-0c11-478c-a3bb-2e0fa17fbfb6.jpg" width="120" height="145" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Possible Republican presidential candidate, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour talks with reporters at Riley's Gun Shop, Thursday, April 14, 2011, in Hookset, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/18e4c140-a879-4fda-9123-27b2317655b3.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="339" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/18e4c140-a879-4fda-9123-27b2317655b3.jpg" width="120" height="102" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Possible Republican presidential candidate, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, left, talks with Buck Mercier at Chez Vachon, Thursday, April 14, 2011, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b58ee63d-f642-4eee-95ae-8e734c16c7e6.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="509" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b58ee63d-f642-4eee-95ae-8e734c16c7e6.jpg" width="120" height="153" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Possible Republican presidential candidate, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour talks with local political activists at Chez Vachon, Thursday, April 14, 2011, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Barbour: States need flexibility on health care</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, considering a White House bid, said Tuesday that states need more flexibility to devise their health care programs for the poor and predicted costs would skyrocket under the health care overhaul pushed by the Obama administration.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Thomas ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ken Thomas ]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/12/6459572-barbour-states-need-flexibility-on-health-care</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/12/6459572-barbour-states-need-flexibility-on-health-care</guid><category>us</category><category>white-house</category><category>health-care</category><category>us-news</category><category>barbour</category><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:47:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/92a8049d-8b35-4674-857f-638031a42117.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="284" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/92a8049d-8b35-4674-857f-638031a42117.jpg" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mississippi Gov. Rep. Haley Barbour gestures while addressing the Congressional Health Care Caucus, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c8324123-6188-48b8-ae90-5dd9ae7eadcf.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="446" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c8324123-6188-48b8-ae90-5dd9ae7eadcf.jpg" width="120" height="134" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mississippi Gov. Rep. Haley Barbour waits on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to speak at the Congressional Health Care Caucus. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>