Analyzed from the bottom to. What they like you know that i got. With that we. Would see this is. What caused me to run for governor i kind of french myself to help us celebrate and remember the 20th anniversary of the Political Campaign that shocked the world former governor Jesse Ventura was joined by several key figures in his campaign and Administration Campaign chairman dean barkley Bill Hillsman the Campaign Advertising guru and political strategist and running mate and 37 year schoolteacher may shunk and finally the Communications Director for the been to administration john would be. Really was the one that. Got me interested in the 3rd Party Movement because ive always been anti democrat and republican and in my neighborhood up there all of a sudden i started to see nice barkley signs for congress or senate i Forget CongressBarkley Barkley and i kind of thought who whos this barkley what is this Independence Party at the time who are they and so on i got involved there and i met them and i realized that the majority of the Independence Party a great many of them were disgruntled democrats and republicans who feel the systems failing and they want something new and so and i felt that way also and so i supported dean when he ran. To make the long story shorter. Genius for minnesota they have the and im dale 4th of july parade and he asked me to walk in it so were walking through annandale and the crowds going crazy but theyre going crazy for me you know youre not a team and ill never forget he leaning over to me and whispering there didnt have to whisper it was pretty loud he said see the wrong guys running that was the genesis thats when the white went on the line you know it was my hometown and its only fair and see that you can be completely sure you do. And i just wonder this would translate into popular and thats where the idea how my hand and thats where the thought started we had a great big Budget Surplus because the economy in the ninetys was super strong and because of the taxation rate in minnesota they took in billions of dollars more than they needed and they spent it and i was doing talk radio and i was just outraged over that how dare them thats the peoples money its not fair just because they have an excess doesnt mean their kids in the. Candy store and so when they 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 werent getting it the centers never represented its always the left and the right on the far wings and there and then the center is made to pick. Quote the lesser of the 2 evils i guess when you get a candidate that occupies the center the left and right them can make inroads and i knew. That that we needed to ya. Voters who did normally vote so i figured theres about 24 to 25 percent that are already voted for an independent withdrawal as is ok with them what we have to do and youre right we had to expand the electorate so we can get to 25 but how do we get to 35 to 37th and i figured well the young voter doesnt vote for it out for me we can motivate that walking voters to take a chance and that show was we had a shot we did the 1st part of the campaign and that replay didnt stir well what you do is you do exactly what you go to bed at which is why did you go to the people still unit event like this on and on that you describe it to flood luxury to your video will fly but if you think of a Governor Campaign you can oh you can understand or picture what the other side of the dialler not offering their pair washer at the time and good thing because one of the campaign was a mermaid carol on the a dollar a day before and you know we never as i and drop dead all 3 to line the Campaign Manager was a poll to have you know theres a poll tells you are ok and i know hed run cold he cant make this stuff up knowing that you know if it was a complete. It was as grass d roots as you could possible yes as you said 34 people down doing things that was you know i remember dean taking me to a debate i think was the twentys public telephone right and we were sitting in a cafeteria or something watching this debate and that was when. I just decided you have to work for jesse because he was so different from middle in those debates you. Simply means that you were actually part of the strategy you were there doing the numbers yeah we we really did we had. Really good voter targeting gross as well and the other thing people forget about this campaign it was really the 1st effective use of the internet yes in a Political Campaign. We didnt have a feel or it was the feelers ations people emailing other people but there are 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 debate so jesse would show up other 3rd Party Candidates show up and every time id watch these debates go on. Everybody would be nodding when jesse spoke so its not hard to figure out if youre at a democratic primary or that and theres 5 candidates in the democratic primary and this guy is the 2nd choice of almost everybody there you start to go through this is a very different dynamic than weve ever seen before if hes the 2nd choice of all the democrats thats pretty good thats an awfully good starting place when i initially ram there were multiple opponents because i was in the debates very early on before the primaries even came around but when it got down after the primaries it got down to the big 2 or if you include me 3. Hubert h. 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 saw 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. Jesse ventura so why 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 shouldnt be former mayor Jesse Ventura because were talking politics here but thats the bias that i faced but in hindsight that was probably good but if they did name the other 2 was private sector jobs i dont want to landslide because then it would have been former warrior skip pomfrey and former lawyer norm coleman or 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. A question and skipped as a family disease of luxury as so he starts talking immediately and you can see him trying to formulate an actual answer as hes talking so uses up his entire 2 minutes they give the same question to norm call it he starts talking right away hes trying to make his points he gets cut off because hes going to 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 mean question i gave you an answer. Joe nobody knew it to be nobody and i dont think you know history of politics or ever not use their entire 2 minutes to Say Something i want to piggyback on that now because i dont need mean and said yes im. Never forget the moderator did have a sense of humor because i looked around when moses started to go i said well i answered the question good night on the moderator of the new web yes i mean if you do so at that double song give you into the crowd good and all that required was a yes or no right in another debate it. Its a friday night and the 2 other candidates are all dressed up. Jesse shows up piecing is football coaching how should he not anything like a sweatshirt in and innocence yes i was almost x. Yeah right there and then just banks people relate to somebody like that you know it wasnt all show and then finally there was the 3rd debate where you told that amazing story about the gay wrestler whose companion couldnt get in to see him that he was dying of aids i mean i heard it sprung up all over the state when he said that there was one of the most affecting things ive ever seen well it how can you have a sign telling you who you love and who you dont begin to sit by your bedside its already for you in the in emergency and because you gain youre not allowed in there whos who didnt say movie you know and so and i think that. The fact that i didnt you should know children. You know people knew that that the answers they were getting were true would from the heart the truth was what if you were looking in. Jesse ventura and in the campaign from the outside as i was thats what started to resonate with me it was it was the truth and you would also often use examples of truth telling noting i gave you 2 things and took advice from me i said number one is tell the truth just dont want to think never to see if you dont know the answer minute yeah its fine itll make you look very real person you dont have it all there and just personal your performance than it beats you know we want from what beginning at September Terry or shares am going to push up to the mid twentys and we hadnt spent one penny on advertising in that mob i think we did a couple radio at that was set. Actually when i looked. In. 23 weeks. I was visiting the president trying to warn people. You financial. Me and you do. You know weve all been. Thinking about what we did this is a moment of. Unity. So what we. Do. Sit down and talk. Early on in the campaign being oh we did that we we did look at you know some of the results of policy were progressing amongst the groups. Naturally my to stop to roam level as revenue stream we high and so the chances of me becoming you know that i needed to be softened by felt i felt strongly that im on shoulder told them im sol brown that back to defend a lot of people i actually was polishing my Kitchen Cabinets and 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 were wondering we would like to ask you to be his running mate i said no public teacher im not a politician i knew that he wanted somebody who had a background in education because of this like of experience with education to do that in the schools and such and i thought well you know i would have i think i had about 30 years under my belt there ready of being a teacher and i knew the schools from the childrens point the parents point from 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 youre near retirement you are always talking about how to improve education and maybe this is your opportunity. No i thought about that so the next day i got a call from jonathan 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 stick to i mean theres no way i dont think the jesse lives 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 dont know if people would remember your name but they know that Jesse Ventura ran with the teach for sending email is a Conference Room and we were discussing him he said we should do a victory tour road to victory tour now is the 1st time we came off oil you know what 2nd until our and i go all over the state of minnesota in 48 hours or 3 days i feel your loss when. Neither side here. And now were going to shop there are slow thats are going to be in a film as a was and he says well we should use the internet and do some live shot outside of the front end of build some momentum saw you know i said then i says ok stop doing Everything Else in months because i after that was 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 theyre sleeping 10 miles of the people who go on the road john and pay and theres like 30 cars behind us with with balloons with all these following the ocean and then as theyd leave others would replace them so were going gaming p. C. Bill everywhere her go to rob will stay this wasnt exactly a well oiled machine so we would be running sometimes 23 hours behind and we were going all night so youd show up 3 hours late at 2 oclock in the morning to someplace home or yeah and there was still a tremendous number of people there a nuisance some of the night these people got to work monday morning these are farmers friends or people theyd waited there for 2 hours for us to arrive when we come out and it was unbelievable i mean people hanging out at midnight in willmar minnesota paying off the building and of course the other 2 immediately imitate it so this skip on free goes out and gets a bus and he cant get anybody on the bus or to show up so they end up paying people to be on his bus or a crowd yes lol and norm coleman has a bus that looks like something out of the music man i mean the whole thing they must spend way more money than we spent in the entire campaign on this bus because the bus would roll and theyd roll out the stuff that be like a stage and all the sound stuff an army get up to a song and dance everything gets rolled up back in the bus off to the next stop weve 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 success in fact i oddball brag. We hired b. L. U. Ask you shes an agent that she job but everybody else on my campaign the only person that got paid was doug fried line and thats 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 Peoples Campaign i dont think weve seen a. Thing like it before or since the democrats other parties talk about their get out the vote program all are volunteers all this organization they have this is a situation where the people in minnesota 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 the truly was because i remember my son and my wife and i all looked at me and my son was in the back seat and he goes dad something strange is going to happen to you said to me on the way out. And so we went out there with that expectation but when i truly realized. It i always believed i could win but believing in actuality are 2 Different Things but what got me that night was when word came in that the lines to register were longer than the lines to vote. That to me was the key you know we have same day registration in minnesota and i thought thats the key these people are not coming out to vote for the status quo theyre not waiting in law either to vote for skip or mormon. Because its their 1st time and ill just state this i cant tell you all since then. How many young people have come up to me there and it just makes me feel so good to tell me always you know you were the 1st 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. Or we have that morning in their little political process yeah the universe they were in a sort of my clients. Around the block for young people registering to vote on a watch and that is the 1st time i said make out we may have done it because that was the missing piece that i didnt know of all time who are they going to show off ive never seen before or since the initial returns came in with you had 37 percent can you never move ive never seen anything like this all on this yes all night it was 37 percent and coleman was trailing and he made a little bit of a movie at one point and i thought well thats the end of it now call and wins but it never happened he will never get that it was interesting because when the 1st ferry returns came in the very 1st it was right in the order Humphrey Coleman money the 2nd returns came in Humphrey Ventura Coleman i moved up to 2nd and then i think it was at what 5 percent to 7 percent was when i took the lead was that about because they had a 3 percent to 5 and a stab at that they came in with a missionary and i went from why i asked to 2nd to 1st that was the real amazing thing is that it was skip and roger bowles 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 46 percent coleman was at is 3032. 00 where he was all the time i was at 10 and it was humphrey that went to 28 and i went to 37 and warm sleeper so norm was always within the margin of error never went up never went down ill never forget the fact that we were in the back and i had already gone out once to the crowd and they were demanding i go out again and i said no im not going out until the elections old for im not born out there just to go out there you know on the on the elections over and ill never forget bill was right here to my right side when on the t. V. Set the 1st check. Ok Jesse Venturas being declared the winner i dont remember which you from c. B. S. Or a. B. C. I dont know who made the 1st call but then all of a sudden he goes the other 2 came right along the border and heres what got to me there was only 60 percent of the folder. And they were declaring me the winner. Everyone wanted me to go out there and i said im a boy you know. How when there was only 60 percent of the vote. I said you want me to walk out there and declare myself the winner i said what if i lose you well be the biggest laughingstock in the history i said im not going out there yet and ill never forget bill sitting there call me quiet manner of course he looks and he goes. He said you trust the students here i said yes bill i did he said that trust me. You are the guy i said do you remember this conversation and i said bill theres 40 percent of the phone left how can you say they havent been wrong in 50 years because youve got to go all the way back to do it right here true or whatever it was exactly 50 years. In 50 years ago you are the governor elect and i remember all of us huddling in the closet there to try to figure out what to do next and terry whos the unsung hero of this campaign. Was crying ashley because she did not want to be 1st lady despite the fact that she turned into like the best 1st lady in Minnesota History it was just chaos at that point and i remember the other memory i have is when i finally did walk out all those volunteer cops were nowhere in sight all of a sudden there was like 12 smoky. Around me and circling me moving every. And out of the way. It was like almost you got taken over you know you got taken over. Or. It was a case in this election were where. We. Were. Just as i said if you if you saw behind the scenes when i made the statement the night we won the world if you would have been behind the scenes you would have truly. World because. We had people. Speak. To me. That. When cash did. Quote we shock. And. That night i felt. Nobody gave us a chance but we did it. Your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know whats going to happen and when its gone. But they havent told you and they havent told me they havent announced. Imagine something as big as the earth is going to cause tidal waves or earthquakes volcanoes erupt and its going to chill. So very for a while right. My great grandfathers. Nobody would care about the law or prison so youd have lawlessness should have. A terrible life between now and. Oh. They. 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