Smoke at Barbeque (Haley Barbour attends CCC event)

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And now this from the Web site of the Council of Conservative Citizens, "The True Voice of the American Right":

"The election year Mississippi Black Hawk Barbecue and Political Rally held on July 19 drew dozens of political candidates and was attended by a crowd of over 500," we are told. "The Black Hawk Barbecue is sponsored by the Council of Conservative Citizens to raise money for private academy school buses."

And there's a nice photo of several folks at the barbecue with one of those candidates, GOP gubernatorial nominee, Washington restaurateur and former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour.

But Bill Lord, the council's Mississippi field director and one of the folks in the picture, told our colleague Tom Edsall that it should be noted Barbour spoke to a rally not sponsored by the council but by the Black Hawk Bus Association and the Carrollton Masonic Lodge. The council sponsored the Black Hawk Barbecue at the same event, but that was a separate thing.

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