BLIND TRUST….When he became governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour promised that he would sever all ties with Barbour Griffith & Rogers, his “little lobbyin’ firm up in Washington, D.C.” But did he? In the New Republic this week Noam Scheiber and Bradford Plumer raise some questions.

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