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Posted: Tuesday, 20 May 2008 8:39AM

Dean Barkley: Expect Ventura OR Me to Enter Senate Race in June

Former U.S. Senator Dean Barkley says he - or Jesse Ventura - will enter the race for senate within the next month. Barkley, who helped run Ventura's successful campaign for Minnesota governor in 1998, announced his intentions on Brad Walton's overnight program on WCCO Radio: "If not him (Ventura), I certainly am considering - strongly considering - that I'll do it, if he won't", Barkley said. "I talked to him this (Monday) afternoon. We're talking about it. He's thinking about it. And I think, by the end of June, one of us will be in the ring, trying to duke this thing out."

Barkley was appointed by then-Governor Ventura to finish out the senate term of the late Paul Wellstone in the fall of 2002. Barkley and Ventura both have said the voters deserve another candidate choice in this fall's U.S. Senate race. Recent polls show Republican incumbent Norm Coleman leading both DFL candidates Al Franken and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer.


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5-20-08 Dean Barkley with Brad Walton
Former U.S. Senator Dean Barkley joined Brad Walton to discuss the Independence Party entering the Minnesota Senatorial race in June with either former Governor Jessie Ventura or himself running against Coleman and Franken.
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