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Venture names barkley Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3408637.html http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3408637.html Ventura names Barkley to succeed Wellstone Jackie Crosby Star Tribune Published Nov. 4, 2002 VENT05 On the eve of one of the most hotly contested U.S. Senate elections in decades, Gov. Jesse Ventura today appointed state Planning Commissioner Dean Barkley to complete the term of Sen. Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash on Oct. 25. Barkley "has a keen sense of what is in the best interest of ordinary Minnesotans," Ventura said. "He will put the people's interest before the party's interest." Ventura announced his plans for filling the vacant seat at 10 a.m. just as a scheduled debate between Democrat Walter Mondale and Republican Norm Coleman began. Ventura said he was appointing Barkley in "direct protest" to the debate organizers' exclusion of other candidates. "Today, three very powerful institutions -- the Republican Party, the Democratic Farmer-Labor party and the Minnesota media -- are conspiring to limit the hard-earned rights of ordinary citizens to rise up and compete for elected office without having to be a Democrat or a Republican," Ventura said. Ventura earlier had said he would not appoint an interim senator until after the election on Tuesday. "I changed my mind," he said. Barkley said that he had not applied for the job, and that he heard about his nomination just before 9 a.m., in a phone call from Ventura chief of staff Steven Bosacker. "I'm the first former car-wash operator to be a U.S. senator," Barkley said at a hastily called news conference at the State Capitol. He described his political leanings as "a little Wellstone, a little Rudy Boschwitz," referring to the former Republican Senator unseated by Wellstone in 1990. Ventura appointed Barkley as director of Minnesota Planning in January 1999. He was one of the key developers of the Minnesota Independence Party. Barkley ran for U.S. House in 1992 and for the Senate in 1994 and 1996. He first earned major-party status for the Independence Party in 1994 when he earned 5 percent of the vote. Barkley earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and earned a law degree there in 1976. He began practicing law in 1977 and worked at Palmer, Hanjani, Barkely and Barley in Loretto, Minn., before being appointed planning director. The firm specializes in real estate and small business. Barkley also has served as CEO of a retail furniture operation, was a former part-owner and marketing director for a company that manufactured panelized houses and has been a business consultant. Barkely said his first order of business would be to educate himself on the dozen or so spending bills still awaiting Senate action. "I have a lot of homework to do," he said. Lacking either Democratic or Republican credentials, Barkley was asked with whom he would caucus in Washington. "I'll do what I can do to help the people in the state of Minnesota," he said. "I'll caucus by myself in a bathroom, if I have to." Return to top © Copyright 2002 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

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