Reply #5: I've never met Barnes, but some of my political buddies know him [View All]

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They don't really think a lot of him as a Democrat.

In case you don't remember, Barnes is the one who pulled strings for W to get into the National Guard. He also admitted back in 2000 that he had done it, and that he suspected HW Bush was behind it, but that another mutual friend has asked him to. He was Lt Gov at the time.

As for your daughter, tell her Kinky is way more conservative than Strayhorn. When she was mayor of Austin she was a Democrat. She never really changed her ideology much, but she became a Republican because she had statewide ambitions. So we have here a case of a man who's barely a Democrat supporting a woman who's barely a Republican. Both of them are to the left of Kinky.