Businessman who donated to Barbour saw company make millions from energy project

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The Texas businessman who recently donated $100,000 to Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's political campaign heads a company that has made hundreds of millions of dollars from the sale of its interests in a Mississippi liquefied natural gas facility.

The natural gas facility, which processes the fuel for distribution, is under construction in Pascagoula, Miss., and was endorsed by Barbour shortly after it was proposed. The project also benefited from a series of approvals by Mississippi agencies at the state and local level and is being built on state-owned land under a long-term lease.

Jamal Daniel and his partners in the Crest Group, a Houston-based firm, formed Gulf LNG in 2004 to develop a liquefied natural gas facility. Last year, Daniel donated $100,000 to Barbour's Leadership Committee, a Georgia political action committee.

Georgia state law allows contributions exceeding the limits that would apply to committees set up at the federal level. Daniel's contribution, made Dec. 14, 2010, accounted for nearly 20 percent of the $526,240 total the committee collected last year, according to a report filed at the Georgia Campaign Finance Commission.

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1. Not Haley Barbour*, too!

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2. Wait a sec...

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3. I don't recognize that flag.

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What Country Is This Flag?

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4. It's Obama's fault....

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5. Yep.

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6. Everything is Obama's fault here....

never congress' fault....Only Obama....

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7. Disagree.

Every person with a brain cell understands the situation in the House.

That's a given. :think:

One can't control that message. :think:

The criticism is based on that which can be "controlled." :think:

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9. Thats not true at all....

I can give you many examples if you want me too....people here blame Obama for everything!

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8. This has to stop...

Somehow, someway, this has to stop. We know how corrupt our political system is yet we continue to tolerate it on a massive scale. It has to stop now.