Jesse Ventura

Jesse Ventura, who is a featured speaker at Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic today, just held an impromptu press conference of sorts with half a dozen people, myself included, who gathered round him in the hallway at Target Center. Here’s the transcript.
Q: Tell me what you think about the people who are fired up [...]

A source close to Jesse Ventura confirms that the former governor is indeed negotiating to play judge for a daytime courtroom TV show, as MnIndy reported yesterday. Further, Ventura is heading to Los Angeles next week to shoot a pilot for the show, which is scheduled to debut in Fall 2009. It sounds like the [...]

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura has been dropping hints all over the place that he may enter the race to replace Sen. Norm Coleman in November. On “Larry King Live” Wednesday night, King pressed him on recent statements that he may enter the race.

King: “How about that race in your old state, Norm Coleman, the incumbent [...]

Last month Jesse Ventura floated the idea of joining the race to unseat incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman in an interview with the Associated Press. The gambit seemed more like an attempt by the former Gov. to pimp his latest book than an actual testing of the electoral waters.

But if Ventura ultimately sits out the race, [...]

The Republican Party of Minnesota expressed its concerns to its supporters today about a possible Senate run by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura. The e-mail, sent by Minnesota GOP party chair Ron Carey, captions a picture of Ventura in a pink blazer, sporting a yellow feather boa and holding a WWF microphone with the words [...]

While former Gov. Jesse Ventura’s appearance on “Larry King Live” this week (and his comments about toying with a run for president or Senate) is getting a lot of attention, his comments on “The Alex Jones Show” yesterday might have more potential to “shock the world”: he said that, based on viewing footage, visiting Ground [...]

The 2008 Almanac of American Politics has finally arrived!  If you’ve never read the almanac before, it’s a doozie:  weighing in at over 1,800 pages and a list price of $74.95, it contains detailed profiles of every current governor, congressperson and senator in the United States.

In his introduction, principal author Michael Barone makes the observation [...]

Coleen Rowley takes one last look at the 2nd District race, speculation begins regarding Tim Walz’s 2008 challenger, and Jesse Ventura has a potential run in with the law…

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