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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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