Dean Barkley to Tea Partiers: Join us

"I am one of you," former Senator writes, "a political revolutionary"

February 24, 2010 at 5:05PM

Not content with having hatched one insurgent political party (and foisting Jesse Ventura on Minnesota), former U.S. Sen. Dean Barkley is trying to woo folks currently attracted to the Tea Party movement.

Barkley recently posted a letter on the Minnesota Tea Party Patriots' website, asking them to migrate their movement to the Minnesota Independence Party. Here's the letter:

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