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Worrisome plan for BP money emerges far from Mississippi Coast
The assault continues on the Coast’s share of BP money meant to right the economic damage inflicted by the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
“The idea that has legs right now is let’s just split it 25 percent per congressional district,” said Hancock Holding President and CEO John Hairston, who met with the Sun Herald on Thursday. “At this moment in time, that is the most popular idea in the Legislature.”
That proposal worries Hairston, who in his role as the Gulf Coast Business Council’s Executive Committee chairman has joined the fight to keep most of that money on the Coast.
Why?
“It’s easy,” he said. “And everybody gets something. Everybody gets something.
Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/article112328332.html