What was the name of the national chairman of the party that took on the chair of the Minnesota Reform Party in an advisory role?
Independence Party of America:  Its National Chairman was Frank MacKay, chairman of the Independence Party of New York. Independence Party of America:  Dean Barkley, a former United States Senator and Independence Party of Minnesota activist, agreed to play an advisory role with the new party. Dean Barkley:  A founder and chair of the Minnesota Reform Party (the predecessor of the Independence Party of Minnesota), he chaired Jesse Ventura's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign; Ventura subsequently appointed him director of the state's Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning, and appointed Barkley to the U.S. Senate after the death of Paul Wellstone.
Frank MacKay