Haley Barbour joins Karl Rove-backed campaign group

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-barbour-crossroads-20110909,0,3604615.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fpolitics+%28L.A.+Times+-+Politics%29

This was announced immediately after President Obama spoke to congress last night

By Tom Hamburger
September 9, 2011, 7:37 a.m.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, perhaps the most prodigious fund-raiser the GOP has ever seen, will be joining forces with politically powerful Crossroads groups, the independent campaign organization that helped tilt several congressional races to the GOP in 2010.

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The news is yet another sign that independent political groups that can raise unlimited sums from corporate, individual and union donors will play a bigger role than ever in the upcoming election, possibly overshadowing traditional campaign and party organizations in some races.

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Barbour is a legendary fund-raiser for the Republican Party, related organizations and individual campaigns. In 2010 he led the Republican Governors Assn. and broke all records for fund-raising and spending. The details of his upcoming work with Crossroads were described in a press release from Crossroads on Thursday night.

Just a week ago, the groups announced they had already exceeded this year’s goal, raising more than $24.5 million to date.

“Both Gov. Barbour and Karl Rove are prodigious fund-raisers and brilliant strategists, and we are honored to have them both engaged with us,” said Steven Law, who serves as president of the two Crossroads groups. “We are reaching high in our fund-raising goals because we believe this is going to be a destiny-shaping election for our country.”

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1. Even tho they have enough money to BUY the election,

they still think they need to rig the voting process as well.
sheesh.