the store and so when they should have spent the money i got pretty vocal overt and i made a statement on the radio one day i said maybe i ought to run for governor you could sense the feeling out there that people were looking for something else and weren't getting it the center's never represented it's always the left on the right on the far wings and there and then the center is made to pick at quote the lesser of the two evils i guess when you get a candidate that occupies the center the left and right them can make inroads and i knew and plus i knew that that we needed to get. voters who did normally vote so i figured there's about twenty four or twenty five percent that are already voted for an independent with well as is ok with them what we have to do and you're right we had to expand the electorate says we can get to twenty five but how do we get to thirty five to thirty seventh and i figured well the young voter doesn't

vote for it out for me we can motivate that walking voters to take a chance and show up we had a shot we did the first part of the campaign and that replay didn't stir well what you do is you do exactly you go to vail at which is whether you did you go to the people still using it event like it's on and on did you describe it to slide by greedy or hey i'm only wealth but if you think of a governor campaign you can oh you can understand or picture what the other side of the dialler not hearing their paranoia us at the time good thing which is whether the campaign was them or read caroline live tolerate before and we were every. day are free to line the campaign manager was a poll to have yeah there's a poll to out if you are ok and i know he'd run cold he can't make this stuff up knowing you know this it was a. completely. there was as grass root as you could possibly and then as you just

read a lot of people doing this when i was young i remember taking me to a debate i think was the twin cities public television right and we were sitting in a cafeteria or something watching this debate and that was one. i just decided you have to work for jesse because he was so different from middle in those debates you are right. and he means you were actually part of the strategy you were there doing the numbers yeah we really did we had really good voter targeting and by gross as well and the only thing people forget about this campaign it was really the first effective use of the internet yes in a political campaign. we didn't have a feel or it was that the field organization was people emailing other people but there were some pretty big indicators people forget the context of the entire race

we were at the state fair the democrats for some reason that still eludes me invited everybody to their debates so jesse would show up other third party candidates and show up and every time i'd watch these debates go on. everybody would be nodding when jesse spoke so it's not hard to figure out if you're at a democratic primary event and there's five candidates in the democratic primary and this guy is the second choice of almost everybody there you start to go through this is a very different dynamic than we've ever seen before if he's the second choice of all the democrats that's pretty good that's an awfully good starting place when i initially rare on there were malta appointments because i was in the debates very early on before the primaries even came around but when it got going after the. my

marriage it got down to the big two or if you include me three. hubert h. skip humphrey the democrat hubert humphrey son the former vice president's son and he was the current attorney general. maire norm coleman the mayor of st paul who they always i found it very interesting. that humphrey was always referred to by his political title of attorney general humphrey coleman was always referred to as mayor norm coleman and even though coleman had no more mayor than i did i was always former pro wrestler jesse ventura so i was the only candidate that had his private sector job put in front of his name where the public and i have been a mayor so should shouldn't it be former mayor jesse ventura because we're talking politics here but that's the bias that i faced but in hindsight that was probably

good but if they did name the other two xp private sector jobs i don't want to landslide because then it would have been former lawyer skip pomfrey and former lawyer norm coleman are some of the substance of those debates was really surprising to people and other things that happened in the debates had never happened i mean they would ask. questions and skipped as the family disease of luxury is so he starts talking immediately and you can see him trying to formulate an actual answer as he's talking so he is up his entire two minutes they give the same question to norm call it he starts right away he's trying to make his points he gets cut off because he's going go over they ask jesse a question he says yes. and they say nobody knew what to do they say would you like to elaborate on it and. and he says us read question i gave

you an answer still nobody knew what to do nobody and i don't so get a history of politics in there ever and not use their entire two minutes to say something i want to pretty back to that now because i don't need never said yes. i'll never forget the moderator did have a sense of humor because i looked around when there was a struggle i said while i answered the question did night on the moderator of the new wed yes i mean if he did but he didn't show it that double song getting into the crowd good all it required was a yes or no right in another debate it was a friday night and the two other candidates are all dressed up. jesse shows up piecing is football coaching how can you not anything like a sweatshirt in and distance yeah oh office yeah yeah right there and then just people relate to somebody like that you know it wasn't all show

and then finally there was the third debate where you told that amazing story about the gay wrestler whose companion couldn't get in to see him when he was dying of aids i mean i heard. all over the state when you said that there was one of the most affecting things i ever see wallet how can you have a sign telling you who you love and who you don't get to sit by your bedside dying or your mother in emergency and because again you're not allowed in there to salute and say movie you know and so they and i think that. the fact that i didn't you should know nothing. you know people knew that that the answers they were getting were true and from the heart the truth was what if you were looking at . jesse ventura and and the campaign from the outside as i was that's what started to resonate with me it was it was the truth and you would also

often use examples of truth and knowledge that i gave you two things it took place for debates i said number one is tell the truth just don't want to think and they want to see if you don't know the answer minute yeah it's fine it will make you look a real person you don't have it all there and just personally know your performance than your bait you know you want from what. beginning at september october shares and they looked at the shop through the mid twenty's and we had to spell one penny on advertising and that mob i pointed to a couple radio ads that was that and that's where we got into position actually when i looked it up just a day or two ago and jesse was at fifteen percent october fifteenth. and he finished thirty seven percent so a two a literally a twenty point jump in three weeks on you tube and that's restaurant was about.

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to remember and want one just to show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. ministry is police forces and city administrations of many countries depend on one corporation that does what mike was hoping the board doesn't run from them in the eyes of god i'm stumped on this is going to going to be woods as that see that is up on him to see if the must also apply to them proprietary software you don't know the source code isn't that a such a security risk when you have a black box operating in the public eye to microsoft dependency puts governments under a cyber threat and not only that i think office can put us in mall that will close off the civil service of selling the false glow worm woke. hoping to lead to more openness to board with all of those with the rules and all this in

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early on in the campaign you know we did that we we did look at you know some of the results of how we're progressing amongst the groups. may actually my to stop still rolling level of seven extruded we hope i am sure that the chances of me becoming you know i needed to be softened by felt i felt strongly that i'm i'm sold told them i'm sold brown out the back to defend a lot of people i actually was polishing my kitchen cabinets that i get this call and they said my name is i am on the committee for justice and tour as a candidate for governor and i said yes and they said we're wondering we

would like to ask you to be his running mate i said no public teacher i'm not a politician i knew that he wanted somebody who had a background in education because of this lot of experience with education to do that in the schools and such and i thought well you know i have i think i have. thirty years under my belt they're ready of being a teacher and i knew the schools from the children's point the parents point for me but the administrators and there were a lot of things that i thought need fixing so as i met with my family and they said well you're nearing retirement you are always talking about how to improve education and maybe this is your opportunity so i thought about that so the next day i got a call from justin asking me if i would be interested in being his. running mate as

lieutenant governor and i said yes i will do so i was up from that point on i was so excited because i could talk about education you were crucial to the success of the script i mean there's no way i don't think that jesse was without you on the ticket because. you gave it a certain sense of gravity to us you know and education is so important to voters and to this day i don't know if people would remember your name but they know they're just going to run with it teach or send emails side conference room and we're discussing and he said we should do a victory tour road to victory tour now is the first time we came off oil not you know what second until our and i go all over the state of minnesota in forty eight hours or three days i think for the last we need an r.v. you need to sell here. and now we're going to shop there are slow that's

a granted until madison was a and he says well we should use the internet and do some live shot outside of the stuff and kind of build some momentum saw you know i said then i says ok stop doing everything else and once but he decided after that. it's another thing that nobody had ever done before i mean people have done bus tours and stuff like that before but the whole rationale behind it was this is the next navy seal campaign is committed will be campaigning when they're sleeping ten miles of the people are going on the road in pay and there's like three cars behind us with with balloons with all these following the ocean and then there's laid believe fathers would replace them so we're going gaming people everywhere who go to rubble status wasn't exactly a well oiled machine so we would be running sometimes two three hours behind and we

were going all night so you'd show up three hours late at two o'clock in the morning to someplace homework yet and there was still a tremendous number of people there a nuisance sunday night these people got to work monday morning these are farmers regular people but don't they waited there for two hours for us to arrive when we come out and it was unbelievable i mean people hanging at midnight didn't wilmar minnesota paying off the building and of course the other two immediately imitate it so this skip on for goes out and gets a bus and he can't get anybody on the bus or to show up so they end up paying people to be on his bus or a crowd gets old and norm coleman has a bus that looks like something out of the music man i mean the whole thing they must have spent way more money than we spent in the entire campaign on this bus because the bus would roll and they'd roll out the stuff at me like

a stage and all the sound stuff and on the get up to the song and dance everything gets rolled up back in the bus off to the next stop we've done a lot of races and i have never seen people work as hard on a campaign as your people did and they were almost all volunteers all staff and everybody was almost dead at the end of that bus trip but they saw it through. and it was an amazing. agent that job but everybody else. the only person that got paid was doug freed line and that's because he had to leave his job full time and take over you know the campaign for the party so we paid doug the equivalent of what he made. this is truly a people's campaign i don't think we've seen anything like it before or since the democrats other parties talk about their get out the vote program are volunteers

all this organization they have this is a situation where the people organize themselves. we were driving there to canterbury that night early evening there was a strange. circle around the mood in the sky that night truly was because i remember my son and my wife and i all looked at it. in the backseat and dad something strange is going to happen he said to me on the way out. and so we went out there with that expectation but when i truly realize. it i always believed i could win but believing. different things but what got me that night was one word. that the lines to register were longer. that. you know we have same day registration in

minnesota and i thought that these people are not. they're not waiting in the law in. the first time and i'll just state this. fall. how many people have come up to me that. makes me feel so good to tell me always you know you were the first person i ever folded for and that to me is the reward. more than anything ever being the governor was the fact that we had that type of impact on the people they told us were untouchable w c c o or me up that morning in their little political report of us crosses yeah the universe they went to sort of the valley lives around the block where young people registering to vote on the lights in day that's the first time i

said my god we may have done that because that was the missing piece that i didn't know of all time who are they going to show off i've never seen before or since the initial returns came in with you had thirty seven percent and you never moved i've never seen anything like this all of them stay as all night it was thirty seven percent and coleman was trailing and he made a little bit of a movie at one point and i thought well that's the end of it now call him annoyance but it never happened he will never get that it was interesting because when the first ferry returns came in the very first it was right in the order humphrey coleman money the second returns came in humphrey ventura coleman i moved up to second and then i think it was at what five percent to seven percent was when i took the lead was that about because they had a three percent to five of the seven but they came in with a missionary and i went from why i asked the second to first that was the real amazing thing is that it was skip and roger molds that put me in the debates

thinking i was going to take republican conservative votes because of fiscal conservative and it was the opposite come from at that time was polling like forty six percent coleman was at is thirty thirty two where he was all the time i was like ten and it was humphrey that went to twenty eight and i went to thirty seven and warm sleeper cells. always with. never went up. the fact that. it's. not just there. was. on the t.v. set. jesse ventura's being declared the winner i don't remember which.

c.b.s. or a.b.c. i don't know the first call but then all of a sudden the other two came right along. sixty percent of. everyone wanted me to. i said you want me to walk out there. i should. be the biggest laughingstock. i said i'm not there yet and i'll never forget bill sitting there. quietly. just forty percent left how can you say. fifty years.

ago. and i remember all of those huddling in. there to try to figure out what to do next terry who's a young. sun here this campaign. was crying ashley because she did not want to be first lady despite the fact that she turned into like the best first lady. it was just chaos at that point and i remember the memory when i finally did walk out all those volunteer cops were nowhere in sight all of a sudden there was like twelve smokey. around me and me. everyone out of the way. it was like almost you got taken over you know you got

taken over your life was no longer or. it was a case in this election where. we. were a loose knit group and just as i said if you if you saw behind the scenes when i made the statement the night we won we shocked the world if you would have been behind the scenes you would have truly understood what that statement so we shot the world because in all of you know we had great people. we have no money. to speak of the dems and republicans twelve million. three hundred fifty thousand a year you know but it proved to me. that money. when

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let it go on telling whether you are ignoring me in the. little league of if you will. a tremendous success. on the republicans holding on to the senate in the midterms however the democrats retake the house of representatives saying it is in fact a huge blow to the president. it's almost a boy it was never meant anything like this in history ever we have a country in. trouble well there was a record breaking turnout among early voters but the election process didn't count as some problems today with huge teams polling station.