Haley Barbour and the Section 8 Evictions attempt

[SargeUNN]

A few months after Katrina when housing was almost impossible for everyone but especially the lower income, WLOX-TV aired a report about 2 section eight housing complexes, one in Gulfport, the other in Pascagoula, getting 30 day eviction notices from section 8. I had a website called UnreportedNews.Net that was well visited and some people contacted me asking me to look into this situation. I did.

I first called the Governor's office and talked to then press sec. Pete Smith who told me the Governor had no involvement in the situation, and wasn't even aware of it. I called several places like the White House, Senators, and congressmen but nobody would get involved, until I was able to get a man at HUD to pay attention. He said he would look into it and get back to me in a couple days or so, and as you can expect, I doubted any return call. He did call back and told me that Haley Barbour had ordered the evictions because several corporations wanted the land for commerical devolpment and that he was getting kickbacks from them. The man explained to me Barbour was misusing a provision of HUD policy which was designed to upgrade properties but there was 2 things being ignored in the policy by Barbour. One thing it stated that the provision did NOT apply to the Katrina Area since housing was at a premium, and the other that anyone moved out had to be given a place of equal status to move to during the reconstruction work.

I was asked to lodge a complaint that would stop the evictions and I did so. Barbour was given the choice of rescending the evictions or get indicted so he vacated the evictions and suddenly I found myself getting death threats, people I knew all my life scared to be around me, and finally thanks to Mike Malloy, Jeff Farias, and their listeners I was relocated to Phoenix and given a radio show on Nova M. One day I was talking to a man involved in one of the many sorted Katrina issues, and we were talking about any area you got into about Katrina it was soon you found your life in danger, and when I mentioned the housing thing I was involved in he recalled it and knew the man who had gone after me. The man owned a construction company and had pumped lots of money to Barbour on that project and when it was stopped he was angry and had a reputation of not letting any act of revenge be too low. I happen to know the man since he was in my hometown so I knew why I would have been dead within a month had I stayed in Mississippi.

So there is Haley Barbour. Wouldn't he be a great President?

[47of74]

1. I'd call Haley Barbour a fat pig...

...but that'd be disrespectful towards fat pigs.

[benddem]

2. even the repubs

don't want him. Check out TPM.com

[ellenfl]

3. in the nixon mold, perhaps? eom