Gov. Haley Barbour has traveled extensively on a Mississippi state plane and has mixed state business with both pleasure and national politics, a Politico review of the flight manifest since 2007 shows.Mississippi spent more than $500,000 over the past three years on Barbour’s air travel, flight logs obtained by Politico indicate. Those costs do not not including security and other logistical costs associated with his trips. Politico said the records were obtained from the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration under a Mississippi Public Records Act request by a Democrat who worked in Mississippi.
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