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	Mr. Blinky - About Page 1
		In the book Barn Burning, Barn Building former Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes takes a close look at the transitional phase of Texas political history in the late 20th century.
		Barnes' experience in Texas and American government makes him uniquely qualified to comment on late 20th century politics.
		Temple Dickson passed away in November 2006, but Ben Barnes' pipe-dropping vote is a pretty funny story.
	blinky.4t.com /barnes.html (415 words)

	LBJ School - Ben Barnes Fellowship in Public Leadership - Home
		In 2000, friends and admirers of former Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes created an endowment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.
		By 1965, while studying for finals, Barnes was named Speaker of the House, and as the youngest Speaker of the House in the nation, the Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce honored him as one of five outstanding young men in the state.
		The Barnes Fellowship in Public Leadership will be used to recruit top students from across the nation who have demonstrated interest in public leadership.
	www.utexas.edu /lbj/development/barnes.php (357 words)

	Ben Barnes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ben Barnes (born April 17, 1938) is an American lobbyist and former Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
		Barnes served as state Speaker of the House in Texas from 1965-1969, U.S. representative to the NATO Conference in 1967, and United Nations Representative to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1968.
		Barnes repeated the claim in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, specifically stating that he had assisted Bush while Lieutenant Governor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Barnes (644 words)

	Bush Served Honorably - GW Bush Not AWOL - Who is Ben Barnes?
		Ben Barnes denied a magazine report Thursday that he helped George W. Bush get a place in the Texas Air National Guard at the urging of Bush's father. Bush, the Republican presidential front-runner, has repeatedly denied that he received preferential treatment in being accepted into the Guard during the Vietnam War.
		Ben Barnes, a rising political star, was caught in the housecleaning when he tried to win the governor's seat.
		Ben Barnes to a similar kickback scheme. In a sentencing memo in the Smith case, New Jersey prosecutors alleged that Mr.
	www.geocities.com /bush_not_awol/barnes.html (1510 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Ben Barnes: John Kerry’s Unbelievable Last-Ditch Weapon by Lowell Ponte (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barnes that CBS and the rest of the establishment media are unlikely to mention.
		Barnes has acknowledged that no member of the Bush family sought his help, but claims he was approached by a Bush family friend (who died three years before Barnes began telling his self-serving story).
		Barnes promoted an earlier version of his story in 1999 and 2000 in a clear attempt to damage the presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14993 (1376 words)

	The Power of Philanthropy \| Ben Barnes \| Faces of Philanthropy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ben Barnes is a political consultant who started his career at a young age.
		Barnes is actively involved with many Austin-area public interest organizations.
		Ben Barnes also serves as Barnes serves as the chairman of Boys and Girls Club of Capital City.
	facesofphilanthropy.com /BenBarnes.php (157 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Man Who Helped Bush Dodge Vietnam to Break Silence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ben Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Texas, will finally break his silence and talk to the press about what role he played in helping Bush get a coveted slot in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968.
		Barnes made his comments in May and the video was posted on a pro-Kerry Web site in June, but word of it only began to spread widely last Friday.
		That story is entirely consistent with the statement Barnes made five years ago, when he revealed that in 1968 he made the phone call to the head of the Texas Air National Guard at the request of the late Sidney Adger, a Houston oil man and longtime Bush family friend.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/090204W.shtml (1050 words)

	SurferMag Message Boards: Ben Barnes on 60 Minutes Tonight (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ben Barnes is the ONLY person who reported that he used his influence to put George W. into the National Guard, a move which would have required the influence of a Lieutenant Governor.
		Ben Barnes admits he never breathed a word of this accusation to anyone, including the Bush family, until recently, and Barnes named a dead associate as his only witness......
		Ben Barnes held both of these positions, so essentially was of strong influence to get George Bush into the National Guard, who cares that he can't remember under what title he did it as, he still had the authority and influence to do so.
	forum.surfermag.com /forum/showflat.php?Number=554602 (3366 words)

	Greg's Opinion - GregsOpinion.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ben Barnes to head up a “Democrats for Hutchison,” sparking renewed speculation that Texas’ senior solon has made her decision to take on Rick Perry in what promises to be a bruising GOP primary.
		Barnes, a longtime Hutchison supporter, was at the center of last fall’s CBS controversy over reports that George W. Bush was AWOL from much of his National Guard duties in the early Seventies.
		Ben Barnes (who led the successful Senate fight to bust Bob Bullock's appointment to the State Board of Insurance) should NEVER be mentioned in the same sentence with Mr.
	www.gregsopinion.com /archives/005706.html (896 words)

	Texas Monthly June 1979: Ben Barnes Is Still Running
		Having worked for Barnes during much of the eight years he was at the pinnacle of the Texas power structure—first as Speaker of the Texas House from 1965 to 1969, then as lieutenant governor from 1969 to 1973—I sometimes find it hard to imagine Barnes existing outside of politics.
		Barnes’ meteoric rise in Texas politics began in 1960, when he was elected state representative from Brownwood at the age of 21.
		Barnes was anointed the heir apparent in a remarkable Texas political dynasty that began in the thirties: Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson, John Connally, Ben Barnes.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1979-06-01/feature4.php (3785 words)

	KLRU: Texas Monthly Talks > Ben Barnes > Biography
		Ben Barnes was once a considered a rising-star in Texas politics after becoming a state representative at age 21.
		In 1969, Barnes was elected lieutenant governor of Texas and served from 1969 to 1973.
		Barnes has been active in a number of community service organizations, including the People's Community Clinic, the Boys and Girls Club, the LBJ Library and School of Public Affairs, the Huntington Art Gallery and the Longhorn Foundation.
	www.klru.org /texasmonthlytalks/archives/barnes/bio.asp (273 words)

	BeldarBlog: Ben Barnes, Dan Rather, and the FORGED Dubya documents "exposed" tonight on "60 Minutes II"
		Barnes, 66, [as] an adviser to Senator John Kerry's campaign and an influential lobbyist with offices in Austin and Washington." No mention of the $464,250 in contributions to Kerry attributed to Barnes' efforts from 1999-2004.
		Barnes disingenuously states that he's "not into the politics of gotcha" and that he's "not here to bring any harm to George Bush's reputation or his career." Which is horsesh*t.
		Barnes was indeed Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from January 1965 through January 1969.
	beldar.blogs.com /beldarblog/2004/09/ben_barnes_and_.html (11183 words)

	Burnt Orange Report - Ben Barnes is Back
		Barnes went on to lavish praise on John Kerry, saying that he initially told Kerry he couldn't support him but changed his mind after one round of golf with the now-presumptive Dem presidential nominee.
		Ben Barnes was known as the "Fastest Zipper in the West" when he was Lt. Governor.
		Ben Barnes is now on his third wife, he was not faithful to the first two.
	www.burntorangereport.com /archives/001659.html (695 words)

	Ben Barnes, author of Barn Burning Barn Building
		Ben Barnes tells in fascinating detail how Texas switched from a solidly Democratic state to one in the Republicans' seemingly unshakeable grip.”
		Ben Barnes has been an influential player on the American political scene for four decades.
		The founder and CEO of Ben Barnes Group, with offices in Austin and Washington, Barnes sits on a number of corporate boards.
	www.barnburningbarnbuilding.com /ben_barnes.htm (202 words)

	Texan says he helped Bush into Guard / Former politician recalls family friend asking for a favor
		Barnes is telling friends that he understood that Adger was making his request on behalf of the Bush family, even though he has no memory of Adger explicitly saying he was.
		Barnes reportedly based his understanding on the knowledge that Adger was extremely close to the Bush family and his feeling that Adger would not have acted without their consent.
		Barnes was in close touch with the head of the Texas Air National Guard, Brig.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/04/MNGS78JRT41.DTL (577 words)

	Power Line: Ben Barnes: Another Hoax?
		Actually, I'm sure that Ben Barnes' claim of having interceded to place President Bush in the Texas Air National Guard as a favor to his family is a hoax.
		Ben Barnes, (whose testimony Powerline disbelieves), and it relies on the memos CBS unveiled on 60 Minutes -- the memos vir...
		Ben Barnes, (whose testimony Powerline disbelieves), and it relies on the memos CBS unveile...
	www.powerlineblog.com /archives/007769.php (889 words)

	Off the Kuff: Ben Barnes
		Ben Barnes, in a video posted on the Internet, says he is ashamed that he got President Bush and other young men from important families into the Texas Air National Guard to avoid service in Vietnam.
		Barnes told the crowd he came to seriously regret his actions recently after visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and seeing the names of men and women who died in the Southeast Asian conflict.
		Ben Barnes is well known for stabbing his "friends" in the back.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/004082.html (1257 words)

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		Ben Barnes was born in 1938 in De Leon, Texas southwest of Fort Worth.
		Its gist in the pre-2004 election time period was Barnes' claim that when he was the Democratic Lt. Governor, he intervened to get Republican Houston Congressman George H.W. Bush's son George W. into the Texas Air National Guard (alongside the sons of Governor John Connally and Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Democrats).
		Given Barnes' long past of unethical dealings, the shipwreck of his career on scandal, and the changes and inconsistencies of his story, Barnes is less than a credible witness.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1710 (1222 words)

	Board of Directors - Ben Barnes
		Barnes served as President and CEO of Intraspect Software, a privately held, leading provider of enterprise software solutions that enable internal and external collaboration, and content management.
		Barnes was the President and CEO of Sagent Technologies, a public enterprise software company.
		Barnes was general manager of IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions division and drove over $1 billion in sales annually for his division directly and more than $4 billion annually in sales across IBM.
	www.instranet.com /company/management/b_barnes.asp (180 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Ben Barnes' daughter: Father lied about Bush (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ben Barnes says her father fabricated claims made on "60 Minutes II" that he used his influence to help President Bush avoid going to Vietnam 36 years ago.
		Ben Barnes, in the "60 Minutes II" segment Wednesday, told Rather he pulled strings in 1968 to get Bush, then a college graduate, into the Texas Air National Guard, a posting that made it unlikely Bush would have to go to Vietnam.
		Barnes said he made the request of Houston oilman Sid Adger, a friend of the Bush family.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40396 (850 words)

	FR Action Item: Spread the truth about Ben Barnes! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ben Barnes has literally been one giant walking scandal for the last forty years in Texas politics and is probably the most disgraced living political name in our state.
		Barnes was the unindicted co-conspirator with Speaker Gus Mutscher and Governor Preston Smith who ramrodded a banking bill through the legislature as a favor to businessman Frank Sharp.
		The article notes that Barnes reputedly wore his only suit when he started work for the legislature, earned $4,800 a year as a legislator and for most of his career, but became a millionaire with interests in radio and TV stations, construction firms, a shopping center, and large land tracts.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1210174/posts (3741 words)

	The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Molly Ivins
		Ben Barnes has never claimed to be nonpartisan or not to have any affiliation with the Kerry campaign.
		I was with the anti-Lyndon Johnson, pro-Ralph Yarborough (a progressive state senator) faction, and Barnes was the darling of the establishment wing.
		Barnes is still playing the Texas power game, but he's backed a lot of people for public office who aren't going to help his business any, which I consider the test of an honest player.
	www.freepress.org /columns/display/1/2004/949 (962 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: News: Ben Barnes in Heavy Rotation
		"Barnes said that he was moved to remorse by a visit to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in D.C., and continued, "It was the worst thing I did, was help a lot of wealthy supporters and a lot of people who had family names of importance get into the National Guard.
		However, Barnes testified instead that the late Houston oilman (and Bush buddy) Sidney Adger, not Bush's family, had interceded on young George's behalf – a loophole that allowed the then governor (already a presidential hopeful) to claim (as he does still) that he knew nothing about it.
		Barnes (on tap for 60 Minutes Sunday) did not return a call requesting comment, but the real news in his May confession was his frankness on politics-as-usual in Texas: "I got a lot of other people in the National Guard because I thought that was what people should do when you're in office.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2004-09-03/pols_naked4.html (436 words)

	CBS News \| New Questions On Bush Guard Duty \| January 10, 2005 12:55:19 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At 29, Barnes was a protégé of President Lyndon Johnson.
		This is the first time Barnes has told his story publicly, but for years, the president has been hounded by questions about how he got in the National Guard.
		Thirty years after the fact, Barnes says he is one of many Americans still trying to make peace with what he did during the war.
	election.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/09/08/60II/main641984.shtml (2095 words)

	Abadi to Habib Corporate Bios - Business Leaders - Elite Bios
		Ben Barnes founded the Ben Barnes Group, a business and consulting firm based in Ben Barnes’ hometown of Austin, TX.
		Ben Barnes currently lives in Austin, TX operating as CEO of the Ben Barnes Group.
		Ben Barnes was a politician and the Lt. Gov.
	www.elitebios.com /execbios01.php (609 words)

	Ben Barnes Politician
		Ben Barnes, was elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a young man. He was in his early 20’s when his political career began and, a few years later, found himself as the youngest speaker in Texas history.
		Barnes did not limit his involvement in Texas to just politics.
		In addition to his charitable contributions, former politician Ben Barnes has accounted for immeasurable advancements in higher education in Texas.
	www.bennnbarnes.com (230 words)

	Ben Barnes
		Ben Barnes was once a considered a rising-star in Texas politics after becoming a state representative at age 21.
		Barnes did not limit his involvement to Texas politics.
		Barnes has been active in a number of community service organizations, including the People's Community Clinic, the Boys and Girls Club, the LBJ Library and School of Public Affairs, the Huntington Art Gallery, and the Longhorn Foundation.
	www.motherjones.com /radio/2006/06/barnes_bio.html (398 words)

	Ben Barnes Fan
		You may have seen Ben in the "History Boys" theatre production or may heard of him as Prince Caspian in the upcoming Narnia film.
		Ben Barnes Fan is not affiliated with Ben Barnes nor with his management.
		I have not at all lost any interest, it’s just I am so beyond slow with Ben news and media materials and along with that, University is going to start for me soon and I fear I won’t have the time to run the fan site.
	benbarnesfan.com (488 words)

	Transcript: Barnes On Bush , Dan Rather Interviews Man Who Helped Get Bush Into National Guard - CBS News
		Ben Barnes talks in an exclusive interview with Dan Rather on 60 Minutes about helping George W. Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard.
		Ben Barnes, the man who says he helped get President George W. Bush into the National Guard.
		Did he have any power to punish you in any way other than to say, "Well, Ben Barnes is not a good fellow because he didn't do what I told him to do?"
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/09/08/60II/main642060.shtml (4684 words)

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