From the Sacramento Bee-
BILOXI, Miss. -- An Atlanta group wants Gov. Haley Barbour in the White House.
On Sunday, the group known as Draft Haley Barbour for Vice President will run ads touting Barbour as the best choice to be Arizona Sen. John McCain's running mate in November's presidential election. The spots will run in Phoenix and Jackson, where the two politicians live.
The ad, which is posted on Draft Haley's Web site, shows Republican Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan and the voice asks, "Remember when Republicans stood for something? Extolled conservative values and meant it? When Republicans fought for a government that spent less but did things better? Haley Barbour does."
The group will continue to run the ad on the Web site, and hopes people contribute so the ads can be run again later, the release said. It hopes to collect 50,000 signatures to persuade the candidate to pick Barbour.
Earlier this week in a meeting with the Sun Herald, Barbour was complimentary of McCain. He said the senator, who has a reputation for being against earmarks, actually helped Barbour lobby other fiscally conservative senators to appropriate billions in Katrina relief money.
"He brought them in to meet with us one by one with him sitting there," Barbour said. "He not only voted for us, but he very actively helped us and helped us with the people we needed help with the most."
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