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Just a simple Cherokee trial lawyer, Barkman has been forcing his opinions on others in print since, for reasons that passeth understanding, he was an unsuccessful candidate for state representative in 2002. His philosophy: "If people had wanted me to be nice, they should've voted for me."
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Now, now, let's not be tacky. Besides, that wouldn't solve the problem either, depending on when it happened. If it's less than (I think) 60 days prior to the election, his name would STILL have to remain on the ballot. Ironically, Republicans pulled something similar (the ballot thing, not the Ken Lay thing) years ago when Lena Guerrero was running for Railroad Commission. They found out that she had lied about graduating from UT, but held on to the dirt until it was too late to remove her name from the ballot, then they swamped her with a massive TV campaign. It ended Guerrero's career, and she was widely thought of as a potential future governor, and it was a HUGE embarassment to her political mentor, Ann Richards.
Worse than that. Pa was impeached and removed from office (for screwing with the UT Board of Regents) and so was barred from holding office. So he ran Ma under the slogan, "Two for the price of one." During her first term, she was pretty much under his thumb. During her second (non-consecutive) term, she kicked him out of her office and was pretty much her own person.
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