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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday vetoed a bill that would continue to allow the Mississippi Legislature to give $20 million a year to a private, nonprofit anti-tobacco organization.
In his veto message, Barbour said "the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi has been cloaked in politics and cronyism."
The Partnership has received $20 million a year by court order since 2000. The money comes from a massive lawsuit Mississippi settled with tobacco companies in 1997.
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