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Ventura: No Senate Run At This Time
KEVIN DUCHSCHERE and PATRICIA LOPEZ,
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura on Monday burst the trial balloon he has been inflating for months, telling a national TV audience that he won’t join Sen. Norm Coleman and DFL candidate Al Franken in a campaign that had promised to become the most-watched Senate race in the country.
Although his appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live” had all the trappings of an incipient campaign, Ventura squelched weeks of hinting that he was planning to enter the arena against Coleman, whose pro-Iraq war record he despises, and Franken, whom he has characterized as an opportunist for returning to Minnesota after years away to run for office.
But King had to drag it out of him first.
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“I will tell you now, I am not going to run — at this moment,” Ventura said, after waxing for several minutes on his strong standing in recent polls, media attacks on his children, and the double standard he said third-party candidates face.
Late Monday, Dean Barkley said he might enter the race today.
“I certainly am considering it,” he said. Ventura appointed Barkley to fill out the late Sen. Paul Wellstone’s unfinished term in 2002.
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July 15th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Great, talk about a let-down. Although I respect Mr. Ventura’s decision, this really would have been a legendary race and his presence and beliefs could have won over the competition and materialized into a wrench inside the Left and Right machinery of the Senate.
I’m unaware of this, but just how far are the candidates’ families being “pryed” on in the media? For Senate races?–I think it’s over-stated. But that’s his choice.
(I still have my fingers crossed, the deadline is 5 pm afterall.)
July 15th, 2008 at 7:04 am
I am disappointed Ventura isn’t running for Senate. So that makes him available as a write in Candidate for President. And why not, what does he have to lose? The country is in ruin right now. Imagine Jessie campaigning as a write in candidate. It’s such a long shot, that people would be compelled to pull for him… the ultimate underdog, dark horse rolled into a beast of a candidate that could not be ignored. The force of his personality alone inspires me with hope in a scarcely hopeful world. I love Ron Paul, but he just doesn’t have the lifeforce of Jessie. Can you imagine a world with Jessie Ventura as our President? No prisoners would be taken, and the 911 wound that won’t heal would be ripped open and its poison cut out with surgical percision. Jessie… consider the idea.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I can imagine why… he sees a revolution sooner than we think. If he is in the Senate and they do a martial law- he will be one of the first picked up and sent FEMA camps or to death. He wants to stay free to be a leader in the revolution. There is no guarantee of liberty in the USA and no escape from martial law if they pick you up 2 weeks before martial law is declared which is the plan from what I heard around the internet. 1st phase is pick up all the leaders, 2nd declare martial law…
July 15th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Don’t write in Ron Paul or Jesse. Vote for Chuck Baldwin presidential nominee of the constitution party. He’s wonderful. Pretty much exactly the same as RP but he’s not giving in to the powers that be.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Alex’s interview with Jesse had quite a few hints that he wasn’t running, I’m sure Alex picked up on them as well.
While it would of been interesting to see Jesse in the senate throwing hardballs at those idiots in power, if I was in his shoes I would take care of my family first, and if I could be sure that they were safe from all the vultures, I would run.
Glad you’re on our side Jesse and hopefully we’ll see you doing a lot more interviews in the future.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I think Jessie is making a mistake, the whole future of this country probably depends on what happens in the next year or two, I respect his feelings for his family but his family may be living in a rat whole police state very soon unless we get some leadership from somewhere to get us out of this mess, Ventura would have been the right man at the right moment in history to be a Paul Wellstone like voice that rises above the rest and was heard.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:03 am
How about a Third Party ticket for president of lets say: Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura… Ron Paul with some muscle to back up his logic. Just a thought since Jesse is probably picking his next fight carefully.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Mr ventura has looked out for his family’s best intrest…
they don’t want to loose a father and a husband….
put yourself in his shoes… you have family and a wife, the elite would kill you if you started making a change… just like kennedy, lincoln, suddam hussain, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Slobodan milosevic and many more….
I would run for president,,, i would bring change…. but then i would be killed by the elite… simple as that….
The elite will have any President killed that try’s to make a change… There is no escape…
Don’t Destroy your goverment…. The goverment is Good, Its the people who own the Goverment that is evil… GET RID OF THE ELITE AND YOUR GOVERMENT WILL BE FREE>>>… YOU WILL BE FREE….
July 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I have a sneaking suspicion that there’s something more to this that just his family’s concerns and a desire to spend the next six years surfing in Mexico and California.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I’m extremely disappointed in Gov. Ventura. He spends the morning with Alex somewhat hinting and not hinting whether he’d run or not and then goes on Larry King just to say he isn’t going to run. A Press Release would have sufficed for this extreme letdown. He talks about not starting the revolution w/o him and yet he doesn’t want to begin the fight by running for Senator which is an extremely powerful and high profile position in government. He chose family issues versus his country. His family OVER the country. Yes, he’s served his country in the past on more than one occasion but the present time period is nothing but dire. His decision was a very terrible one.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
HE could make up for it be narrating the final cut on Loose change, ALex should suggest it to him
July 15th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
While I respect Gov. Ventura for his stance on 9/11 and many other issues regarding the future of our country, his pessimism in the interview with Alex was crushing. 80% of people thinking they have been lied to RE 9/11 are “meaningless figures”? His stating that he would be viewed as the “unpopular red-headed stepchild” for not being religious, among other things. That 9/11 is a “done & buried” issue that will never be exposed. In response to Alex speaking about the exploding, exponential growth of alternative media, Ventura again dismisses it as a we-have-no-chance scenario. One theme that he keyed on was the notion of people that “can’t handle the truth”. Well Jessie, people ARE ready. It seems clear that he isn’t quite ready to except the reality of the situation. “I’m not so fully in tune with the notion that one person can make a difference.” Judging by this quote and many others from his interview, I’m not so sure this would have been the right man for the job anyway.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Alex: “How dumb does the Government think we are to sit there and tell us that we’re crazy to sit there and question the falling of those towers?”
Ventura: “Because they will win. You Notice there’s no other investigations happening, there aren’t gonna be any investigations happening…There will be nothing happening on 9/11 in my opinion. 9/11 is a buried done deal.”
July 16th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Yeah, what a seriously retarded way of thinking. Its like saying “Oh Russia just launched 10 nukes at us what do we do?” Ventura:”Well they already fired em its a done deal, Nothing we can do now, but watch the mushroom clouds rise”.
I am pissed at Mr. Ventura for turning his back on the American people.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I could understand his attitude a little more coming from someone that couldn’t do anything about it but not from a probable Senator. It really feels like he has killed his grandchildren to feed his children.