Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “The wife of the nephew of Haley Barbour, Mississippi Republican…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2005

The wife of the nephew of Haley Barbour, Mississippi Republican Governor, former RNC chairman, she has received $6.4 million in contracts for things like laundry service and showers and delivering tents. Not emergency needs 3 months after Katrina hit that would seem to require no-bid contracts, but 10 separate contracts from FEMA and the General Services Administration, no-bid contracts, of $100,000 or more. Now, if that is not cronyism.

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Democratic · Florida

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