Dean Barkley
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"Dean Malcolm Barkley" is a politician who served as a member of the United States Senate from Minnesota. A founder and chair of the Minnesota Reform Party (the predecessor of the Independence Party of Minnesota), he chaired Jesse Ventura's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign; Ventura subsequently appointed him director of the state's Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning, and appointed Barkley to the Senate after the death of Paul Wellstone. Barkley ran as the Independence Party's candidate for the United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008/Senate in 2008, coming third to Al Franken and Norm Coleman.

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I think it speaks volumes how lost the Democratic Party has become in Texas and how dispirited Democrats have become.

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So far, in the two months I've been down there, the response has been overwhelming. Things couldn't be better than they are, as far as I'm concerned.

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It's a legal activity, and he likes doing it. Too bad some of that money doesn't come into Texas and he has to go to Vegas or New Orleans to do it.

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I don't think that Kinky is a rich man, but he does OK.

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You just keep doing what they're doing and people can judge for themselves who is the true independent.

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May the best man win.

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This is a good two-minute piece of why this guy got into the running – in a funny way.

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I don't think Kinky weighs the risk about who he may or may not offend.

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Whatever we're going to do, we're going to make it fun. We're going to make it different, and we're going to be as creative as we can be to get our message out.

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