Gov. Haley Barbour’s press secretary to the press: Leave or get arrested

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http://www.sunherald.com/2010/05/21/2200902/photographer-asked-to-leave-taping.html

Friday, May. 21, 2010

A Sun Herald photographer was asked to leave the courtyard of Mary Mahoney’s restaurant in Biloxi on Friday during the filming of a commercial and later was threatened with arrest.

Gov. Haley Barbour’s press secretary, Dan Turner, asked photographer John Fitzhugh to leave during the filming of a commercial by the governor and his wife, Marsha. Turner said he wanted the set to be as quiet as possible and he asked security to remove Fitzhugh from the courtyard.

Fitzhugh then went to get exterior shots of the building and was standing on a public sidewalk west of the restaurant. A uniformed Highway Patrol officer came onto the sidewalk and told Fitzhugh he would be arrested and taken to the Harrison County jail if he shot one more photo of the building.



JOHN FITZHUGH/SUN HERALD In a frame from video, Gov. Haley Barbour’s press secretary, Dan Turner, tells Sun Herald photographer John Fitzhugh to leave the courtyard of Mary Mahoney’s restaurant in Biloxi on Friday. At right, Barbour and his wife, Marsha, were preparing to film an ad to promote tourism on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the wake of the oil spill.

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1. I'd file suit against his fat ass. n/t