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{{Short description|American football player (born 1954)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name        = Dave Lindstrom
|birth_name  = David Alan Lindstrom
|birth_date  = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1954|11|16}}}}
|birth_place = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S.
|death_date  =
|death_place =
|party       = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|education   = [[Boston University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
|module      = {{Infobox NFL biography
| embed       = yes
| number      = 71
| position    = [[Defensive end]]
| height_ft   = 6
| height_in   = 6
| weight_lbs  = 256
| high_school = [[Weymouth High School|Weymouth (MA)]]
| college     = [[Boston University Terriers football|Boston University]] (1972–1976)
| draftyear   = 1977
| draftround  = 6
| draftpick   = 146
| teams       = * [[Kansas City Chiefs]] ({{NFL Year|1978}}–{{NFL Year|1985}})
| statlabel1  = Games played-[[Starting lineup|started]]
| statvalue1  = 118-30
| statlabel2  = [[Quarterback sack|Sacks]]
| statvalue2  = 7.5
| statlabel3  = [[Fumble]] recoveries
| statvalue3  = 1
}}
}}
'''David Alan Lindstrom''' (born November 16, 1954) is a former [[American football]] [[defensive end]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL), playing eight seasons (1978–1986) for the [[Kansas City Chiefs]]. Drafted by the [[San Diego Chargers]] in [[1977 NFL Draft|1977]],<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article232021292.html|title=Former Kansas City Chiefs player joins 2020 Senate campaign in Kansas|last=By|website=kansascity|language=en|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref> Lindstrom was inducted into both the Boston University Hall of Fame and Massachusetts High School Hall of Fame in 1993.
Lindstrom served as the chairman of the [[Overland Park, Kansas|Overland Park]] Visitors and Convention Bureau as well as a Kansas City Chiefs Ambassador. He has owned four [[Burger King]] restaurants in the [[Kansas City Metropolitan Area|Kansas City area]].<ref name="auto"/> Lindstrom also serves as board chairman for the [[Kansas Turnpike Authority]] and as a member of [[Johnson County Community College]]’s Board of Trustees.<ref name="auto"/>
A [[Johnson County, Kansas]] resident since 1979, Lindstrom and Mary, his wife of 40 years, are parents of Halee and Adrienne.
==2020 U.S. Senate campaign==
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Lindstrom launched his bid for the Republican nomination for the [[United States Senate]] with an event on June 27, 2019, at [[Goodland, Kansas]] in [[Kansas]]' northwestern corner (four-term GOP Sen. [[Pat Roberts]] is not seeking re-election in 2020). Entering the Senate race, Lindstrom stated he's concerned about what he sees as a growing embrace of socialism by people in Washington: “People are making promises with other people's money and resources that they cannot keep, that they understand are not sustainable — that will create an environment in this country, of one of entitlement, as opposed to hard work,” he said during an [[Associated Press]] interview, “That's what I mean when I talk about socialism.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/20a037dcd9184250bcd1d1e0f25c0964|title=Ex-Chiefs player, businessman runs for US Senate in Kansas|last=Hanna|first=John|date=2019-06-27|website=AP NEWS|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref> He ended up getting 4th place in the votes during the primaries.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=|title=2020 Kansas Primary Results|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/kansas-primaries-2020/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113223203/https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/kansas-primaries-2020/ |archive-date=2020-11-13 |access-date=|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090719142319/http://www.kcambassadors.com/docs/profiles.asp?profile=3205 Kansas City Ambassadors profile]
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{{s-bef|before=[[Gary Sherrer (Kansas politician)|Gary Sherrer]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for [[Lieutenant Governor of Kansas]]|years=[[2002 Kansas gubernatorial election|2002]]}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Susan Wagle]]}}
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[[Category:Politicians from Overland Park, Kansas]]
[[Category:Players of American football from Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
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