Rhode Island Senate Hopeful In ’09: ‘Run For Office… You Get Tons Of Free PR’ | Talking Points Memo

In February 2009, businessman Barry Hinckley gave a speech at a conference in Las Vegas, running through numerous “out of the box” ideas to “help you get ahead.” Among them: run for office. Even if you lose, he said, “you get tons of free PR.”Video of the speech surfaced in the Rhode Island press this week because, well, Hinckley is now running for office himself. Hinckley, a co-founder of Bullhorn Software, an online recruiting software company, is challenging incumbent Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D). (Hinckley’s considered a big underdog in the race.)


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