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To: ambrose

Ben Barnes is one of the biggest crooks Texas politics ever saw, and that's saying something. He's also a democrat (shocking!). I wouldn't believe anything he said.


10 posted on 08/27/2004 5:28:32 PM PDT by Endeavor
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To: Endeavor

LOL!!! That is something to say he is one of the biggest Texas crooks ever -- that's really bad.


26 posted on 08/27/2004 5:31:28 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Oklahoma is Reagan Country and now Bush Country -- Win Another One for the Gipper!)
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To: Endeavor
He probably learned his trade and was a protege of the Infamous Bobby Baker, onetime henchman of LBJ.
Anyone remember him????????????????
32 posted on 08/27/2004 5:35:22 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Endeavor

In the 1980s I took Barnes' deposition. He was a typical politician deadbeat---unwilling to pay his bills. I see his character hasn't changed.


51 posted on 08/27/2004 5:48:42 PM PDT by John Thornton
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To: Endeavor

Yeh, Barnes was "tainted" by the Sharpstown scandal which "tainted" many in state government at that time-Sharpstown was a major stock fraud. He's Texas' second biggest crook to LBJ.


54 posted on 08/27/2004 5:58:42 PM PDT by izzatzo
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To: Endeavor
Ben Barnes is one of the biggest crooks Texas politics ever saw
Yeah, Ben was so crooked that he couldn't run for political office anymore. Ben, like Mr. Kerry did, hopes that we won't remember the past.
56 posted on 08/27/2004 6:03:18 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: Endeavor
Ben Barnes is one of the biggest crooks Texas politics ever saw, and that's saying something. He's also a democrat (shocking!). I wouldn't believe anything he said.

Yep. I just did a google search on him. Texas Monthly says this:

Majority leader Tom Daschle has called him "the fifty-first Democratic senator."

95 posted on 08/27/2004 8:09:48 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Endeavor

Barnes was kicked out of office best I remember--Sharpstown Bank scandal.


104 posted on 08/27/2004 9:03:23 PM PDT by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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