Haley Barbour: “The idea that somehow shooting your girlfriend or your wife is a lesser crime than killing a stranger is a relic that we…”
On the recordJanuary 15, 2012
“The idea that somehow shooting your girlfriend or your wife is a lesser crime than killing a stranger is a relic that we hoped had been left very much in the past.”
I learned a great lesson about government when we did the census in 1970. And that is that the government is not a very good communicator. That the government doesn't do a good job of getting things across. So I've been trying all my…
I think that really is a technicality. Here, the fact that these people didn't know that these murderers were up for pardons is a substantive problem with how the process worked.