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	TWM - Jesse's Victory/ Steven Schier
		Jesse is the culmination of this trend, rocking the political establishment from the "radical" center.
		Ventura was also helped by the fact that Minnesota is one of only seven states that allow voters to register on election day.
		The Ventura candidacy is a warning bell to the national parties about their extremism and dependence on powerful interest groups.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/1999/9901.schier.ventura.html (2562 words)

	Professional Wrestling Online Museum - Ring Chronicle Hall of Fame Inductee - Jesse Ventura
		Ventura (pictured, left) openly admits that he modeled nearly every facet of his wrestling persona after the legendary "Superstar" Billy Graham, who was then at the height of his popularity and influence.
		Ventura used his fame, and acting talent, to land several parts in major films such as Predator and The Running Man, and by the end of the 1980's, Ventura was a household name.
		But when Ventura ran into problems with WWF management (concerning Ventura's plans to form a wrestlers' union, similar to those found in other sports and fields of entertainment) he was released from his WWF duties.
	www.wrestlingmuseum.com /pages/bios/halloffame/jessebio.html (1743 words)

	Jesse Ventura (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jesse Ventura Jesse Ventura (born July 15, 1951, as James George Janos, which is still his legal name) was elected the 38th Governor of Minnesota on November 3, 1998, after a career as Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, actor, mayor, and radio talk show host.
		Ventura, who spent considerably less than his opponents, is widely regarded as one of the first candidates to effectively use the Internet in a political campaign.
		Ventura ran for mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota in 1990 and served from 1991 to 1995.
	jesse-ventura.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1763 words)

	Jesse Ventura
		Ventura described party leaders as "hopelessly dysfunctional" and said he could not support a political organization that might have Patrick J. Buchanan, a former conservative commentator, as its presidential candidate and David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as a party member.
		Ventura's departure would have only "minimal impact" on the party, allowing it to proceed with the selection of a presidential nominee and to refocus party efforts on policies rather than personalities.
		Ventura said he was returning to his roots as a nominal member of the Independence Party of Minnesota, which officially changed its name in 1996 to the Reform Party.
	members.tripod.com /platforum/ventura.htm (1838 words)

	Jesse Ventura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In November 1990, professional wrestler turned actor Jesse Ventura was...
		Jesse 'The Body' Ventura: The Man, the Myth, the Legend (1999)....
		Wrestlemania III (1987) (V) (as Jesse 'The Body' Ventura)....
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001818 (240 words)

	Gov. Jesse Ventura -- Friend of Libertarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Governor Jesse Ventura -- the ex-pro wrestler who stunned the nation with his victory for governor of Minnesota in 1998, may be the most libertarian of all governors.
		Though Ventura was a Reform Party candidate, the word "libertarian" is constantly used by journalists and pundits to describe his views.
		Ventura -- who served from 1991 to 1995 as mayor of Brooklyn Park, a Minneapolis suburb -- ran clever, funny anti-establishment ads that mocked the other candidates.
	www.self-gov.org /celebs/Ventura.html (406 words)

	NHextra: Jesse Ventura
		Jesse Ventura, former wrestler, actor, radio shock jock, Vietnam veteran, Navy Seal, mayor and volunteer assistant high school football coach, who changed his nickname from Jesse "The Body" to Jesse "The Mind," won the Minnesota governor seat in November.
		Ventura is very pro public schools, he calls school busing a complete disaster, and says parents are partly to blame for the problems in public schools.
		Ventura has also proposed that the law preventing him from carrying a concealed weapon in the Minnesota State House be changed.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/on2/elections/ventura.html (1053 words)

	The Body Politic - effectiveness of Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura Washington Monthly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ventura was the third-party candidate who won control of the ship of state and changed Minnesota's fortunes while handsomely boosting his own.
		Ventura may well run for reelection next year, but unless he learns to convert popularity into political muscle, he could be a political novelty item: the guy who discovered the value of public office for bolstering a waning entertainment career.
		Ventura traveled by bus in wide bops around the state, trying to incite the citizens to demand the chance to vote for a one-house legislature in place of the two-house arrangement that has prevailed since Minnesota earned statehood in 1858.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_6_33/ai_75434983 (912 words)

	Politainer- Jesse Ventura
		Jesse carried that persona over into his surprise run for governor, using it as a way to distinguish himself from the political establishment and to demonstrate that, if elected, he would be a different kind of governor.
		Jesse Ventura™ cannot separate his interests, those of his sponsor, and those of the public, because he and his governorship are simply products of the corporate infotainment culture, lacking distinct identities.
		Jesse Ventura™ justifies his pursuit of private gain by claiming that he is doing it in his off hours, and that if one bans outside gain, then only rich professional politicians can run for office.
	condor.depaul.edu /~dweinste/celeb/Politainer-_Jesse_Ventura.html (7682 words)

	Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Governor of Minnesota
		Jesse Ventura was a decent wrestler, and teamed with Adrian Adonis in the old AWA, as part of the East-West connection.
		Ventura was good with the microphone and got himself over in that respect.
		Ventura retired from the sport of pro-wrestling for a while, and ventured into the world of politics, eventually winning an election to the position of Mayor of where he had settled down, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
	www.slovakopedia.com /j/jesse-ventura.htm (427 words)

	Jesse Ventura Highlights Government Plan To Attack U.S. Cities & Kill Americans
		Ventura said that shortly after he found out the truth behind the Gulf of Tonkin, Robert McNamara paid a visit to Harvard where Ventura was teaching and he had to be "locked up in a room" so that he wouldn't confront McNamara.
		Ventura said that it was via his 25-year research of the Kennedy assassination that he came to learn about the Gulf of Tonkin and Operation Northwoods.
		Ventura said the Democrats and Republicans were destroying the election process and allowing the elections "fall victim to a system of bribery," but blamed the American people for sharing an apathy that means they don't get involved and don't care beyond their own lives.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/september2006/270906jesseventura.htm (952 words)

	SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Jesse Ventura
		Ventura would continue to team with Adonis but soon Ventura was moved into a singles program, managed by "Classie" Freddie Blassie, and Adonis went on to team with Dick Murdoch.
		Ventura was supposed to work a lengthy program against Hogan when, just prior to a WWE World title match at Madison Square Gardens in 1984, he was rushed to hospital with a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot that Ventura would contribute to being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
		Ventura's ascention to the Minnesota Governor's mansion made him into as much of a celebrity as a politician can be, with a Jesse Ventura action figure, autobiography, an unauthorized TV movie and even a stage play.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/Bios/ventura_jesse.html (1211 words)

	Cursor's Jesse Ventura Watch (updated regularly)
		A Los Angeles Times analysis of Jesse's impact and exit overstates the media coverage of his family, inaccurately characterizing it as "relentless." And like hundreds of other articles, it mistakenly refers to the one-time frogman as a "former Navy SEAL," a myth that Jesse has aggressively perpetuated.
		Jesse barks at media, but fails to disclose that it was his staff that contacted "Good Morning America" before his trip to NYC's ground zero.
		Jesse advises constituents to boycott TV and newspapers and get their news from talk radio.
	www.cursor.org /venturawatch/default.htm (1647 words)

	Online NewsHour: Jesse "The Governor" Ventura - February 14, 2000
		JESSE VENTURA: I stand before you as governor willing to say what too many politicians at all levels of government have been scared to say: The free ride is over.
		JESSE VENTURA: It is my goal to erase the word "voucher" from the vocabulary by investing in public education and expecting local school boards to deliver results.
		FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Members of Ventura's cabinet say that in contrast to his public persona, they've always seen that serious side of Jesse Ventura, a CEO who is a keen listener, who defers to the expertise of his cabinet.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/politics/jan-june00/ventura_2-14.html (1318 words)

	The Body politic - The Boston Globe
		Now Jesse Ventura is putting his moves on a class at the Kennedy School.
		Ventura's counterspin: The media began piling on when he refused to play by their rules.
		Were he single, Ventura says today, he would have run for office again and "stuck it down their throats," as he colorfully puts it.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/25/the_body_politic (1910 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jesse Ventura Tells It Like It Is: America's Most Outspoken Governor Speaks Out about Government: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His coauthor is probably responsible for much of the text; it seems unlikely that Ventura sat down to write a two-page spread on the history of suffrage, for example.
		Nevertheless, Ventura's brash, confident voice is heard throughout, in discussion of everything from the nature of government and the Constitution to the budget, third-party candidates, and ways for kids to participate.
		Ventura's credentials as a former Navy Seal and Governor give him a realistic view opposed to the myopic view of career politicians who have spent their lives in Washington.
	www.amazon.ca /Jesse-Ventura-Tells-Like-Government/dp/0822503859 (732 words)

	The Miseducation of Jesse Ventura
		Gov. Jesse Ventura said Saturday it is an ``oxymoron'' for Indian tribes to claim to be sovereign at the same time they ask the government claims to fishing rights in Minnesota.
		Ventura, who is in Washington for the National Governors' Association winter meeting, was asked by reporters about a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Chippewa Indians are asserting their right to fish in Minnesota free of state regulations.
		Jesse seems to have confused his former job as a talk-show knucklehead with the more responsible job of being governor of all the people, not just the ones who like ethnic jokes.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/ventura.html (3990 words)

	CNN.com - Jesse Ventura's MSNBC show in limbo - Dec. 26, 2003
		After a two-month run, former Gov. Jesse Ventura's cable show is off the air and there are no immediate plans for MSNBC to bring it back.
		Ventura's phone number is unlisted, and he has refused interviews with local reporters since leaving the governor's office in January.
		Ventura had a weekly radio show during his four years as governor and was a television commentator for the XFL, an alternative football league that folded after airing for one season on NBC.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/26/jesseventura.ap/index.html (335 words)

	Jesse "The Body" Ventura plays the spoiler in Minnesota gov. race - October 23, 1998
		Ventura's protest campaign has particularly eroded Humphrey's support -- an ironic twist since it was Humphrey who refuses to appear in debates with Coleman unless Ventura was invited.
		Now that the two major party candidates are paying attention to Ventura they're vying to attract his supporters, arguing that the wrestling ring is no training ground for the state capitol where the political wrestling is very real
		But being politically correct is precisely what Ventura has not been and caution may be the price of his success, trying to be establishment may be what ultimately allows one of the other candidates to slip out of Ventura's hammerlock.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/10/27/mn.gov/index.html (641 words)

	Mr. T vs. Jesse Ventura @ WWWF Grudge Match (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jesse Ventura beat the odds in 1998, and they don't come much odder than a kilt-wearin' giggly man with a mohawk, pounds of jewelry, and a kilt-wearin' rubber chicken.
		Jesse Ventura claimed he was a Navy SEAL, though there is some question about whether he actually was or if he really was a UDT (see http://www.cursor.org/stories/seal_or_udt.htm for the details).
		Jesse Ventura may conflate his public and private personae, like most wrestlers, but you can sort of tell who's who - he doesn't, so far as I know, wear his feather boas to official state functions.
	www.grudge-match.com /History/t-ventura.shtml (9220 words)

	Scott's Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jesse Ventura was a great wrestler, and with Adrian Adonis in the old AWA, as part of the East-West connection in which he won the tag title.
		Ventura always wanted to be known as the bad guy in wrestling, he said he loved walking into an arena and getting booed by every person there.
		Ventura was offered a color commentating job with the WWF and he took it.
	www.geocities.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Colosseum/3025/ventura.htm (819 words)

	USATODAY.com - Jesse Ventura eyes White House run in 2008 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of his first acts would be to try to abolish the income tax in favor of a sales tax, which Ventura says is a better indicator of wealth.
		Ventura, 52, shocked the political establishment in 1998 when he used his message of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism —; and his sizable personality — to defeat two better-known and better-funded candidates to become the first third-party governor of Minnesota.
		Yet by the end of the semester, which concludes Friday, some faculty poked around Ventura's office, hoping to catch a glimpse of the man whose study groups were unconventional but always well attended.
	www.usatoday.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/politicselections/2004-04-15-ventura-white-house_x.htm (690 words)

	Gov. Jesse Ventura Portrait Unveiling
		Cepello calls the opportunity to paint the portrait “a career artist’s dream.” He says he strove to incorporate into the portrait aspects of his friend’s life that he has observed over the years of their friendship for future generations to discover.
		Ventura is pictured standing proudly over a landscape filled with symbols of Minnesota and important aspects of his life and career.
		Blended into the landscape behind him are images of an undeveloped, wild Minnesota to his left, and to his right the Capitol building, the Minneapolis skyline, a bridge spanning the Mississippi River, a lush Minnesota golf course and a light-rail train.
	www.mnhs.org /events/press/portrait (539 words)

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