Ventura also said that he and his wife plan to pursue their Mexican citizenship and that he would now refer to the United States as the “Fascist States of America.”
A slate of 35 DFLers introduced legislation on Monday that would allow state employment contracts to include benefits for same-sex domestic partners. The bill aims to restore benefits that were offered during the administration of Gov. Jesse Ventura but repealed under pressure from Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Republican legislators in 2003.
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura told the Pioneer Press Friday that he backs Independence Party candidate Tom Horner for governor. Horner has secured the endorsements of three of the five living governors, including former Republicans Arne Carlson and Al Quie. Gov. Tim Pawlenty is backing Republican Tom Emmer, while former DFL governor Wendell Anderson hasn’t yet announced his support for a candidate. Ventura was the first and only Independence Party candidate to win the governor’s election.
It seems Jesse Ventura’s new conspiracy TV show might be buying him some credibility with the schizophrenic Ron Paul crowd. In an online poll at RonPaul.com asking who should serve as Paul’s 2012 running mate,…
Despite a ruling last week by a federal judge in Wisconsin striking down the National Day of Prayer as unconstitutional, Minnesota’s commemoration of the annual event — almost exclusively an evangelical affair — will go on this year. It remains to be seen whether Gov. Tim Pawlenty will again sign a proclamation for the day in Minnesota.
Fox Business News brought Jesse Ventura on, presumably for ratings-boosting color, but what he delivered might not have been the kind of fireworks producers had hoped for. In a heated interview, Ventura proposed a tax on the war in…
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura hawks his forthcoming book, “American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us,” with a column at Huffington Post today in which he decries the “staggering” hypocrisy of the…
Former Sen. Dean Barkley told tea partiers in an email Tuesday that they should join the Independence Party and rename it the Tea Party. Already, tea party–affiliated candidates are aligning themselves with Gov. Jesse Ventura’s former party, including…
Tom Horner says Jesse Ventura’s first two years in office are a template for governing, should his Independence Party campaign match Ventura’s 1998 storming of the governor’s mansion. But before that can happen, says 2002 IP guv candidate Tim Penny, the party may have its first real endorsement battle.
“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.” With that line, former Gov. Jesse Ventura cemented a place for himself alongside U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, rapper…
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