I supported dean when he ran. To make the long story shorter. Dinas from minnesota they have the annandale 4th of july parade and he asked me to walk in it so were walking through annandale down the crowds going crazy but theyre going crazy for me you know youre not in d. C. And ill never forget the 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 it was a little embarrassing. But he completely and truly did. And thats why i just wonder this would translate into political popularity and thats where the idea how my hand and thats where the thought started we had a great big Budget Surplus because the. Me 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 is 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 on the right on the far wings and there and then the center is made to pick at 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 and plus i knew that that we needed to get. Voters who did normally vote so i figured theres about 24. 00 or 25 percent that are already voted for and independent with well as is ok with them what we have to do and youre right we had to expand the electorate says 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 it stands and show up we had a shot we did the 1st part of the campaign and that we played well what you do is you do exactly you go to. At which is whether you did you go to the people still using event like these on an aga as you describe it to slide whether studio today i will fly but if you think of a Governor Campaign you can oh i can understand or picture or what. The other side of the know not only during their paranoia show at the time. Was one of the campaign was let her read their own little dollar a day before and we were. Dead through the line of the Campaign Manager was appalled to know theres a bolt out there at the moment i know hed run cold he cant make this stuff up knowing this it was a complete. It was his grass d roots as you could possibly and there is used to refloat people you know doing this when i was young i remember taking me to a debate i think was the twin cities public telephone rang and we were sitting in a cafeteria or something watching this debate and that was one and. I just decided you have to work for jesse because he was so different from middle in those debates you mean youre right. And you means that 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 other thing people forget about this campaign it was really the 1st effective use of the internet yes you know in a political campaign. We didnt have a feel or it was the feelers issue 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 3rd Party Candidates and 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 and theres 5 candidates in the democratic primary and this guy is the 2nd choice of almost every. Buddie 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 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. 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 shouldnt i 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 xp private sector jobs i dont 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. A question and skip as a family disease of luxury as so he starts talking immediately and you can see him trying to formulate an actual answer as he. Hes talking so uses up his entire 2 minutes they give the same question to norm coleman 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 he says us me a question i gave you an answer still nobody knew what to do nobody and i dont so you know history of politics and reverend not used their entire 2 minutes to Say Something i want to pretty back to remember that now because i believe in him said yes. Ill never forget the moderator did have a sense of humor because i looked around when there was a struggle i said well i answered the question big night on the moderator of the new web yes i mean if you do please show it that double song get you into the crowd good and all it required was a yes or no right in another debate it was a friday night and the 2 other candidates are all dressed up. Jesse shows up hes in is football coaching outfit you know hes in like a sweat shirt in and innocence yeah i was almost lax yeah thats 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 a man whos dying of aids i mean i heard it sprung up all over the state when you said that there was one of the most affecting things that were seeing with all it how can you have a sign telling you who you love you dont get to sit by your bedside its already or youre making an emergency and becoming again youre not allowed in there are others who are insane movie you know when you. So and i think. The fact that i didnt you should know that. 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 in. Jesse ventura and 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. Known to give you 2 things and took place for that means 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 it will make you look a real person you dont have it all there and just perfectly new your performance than it beats you know we want from what. Beginning in september october shares and they looked at the shop to the mid twentys and we had to spell one penny on advertising and that model i think we did a couple reading what was it and thats more we got into position actually when i looked it up just a day or 2 ago and jesse was at 15 percent. And he finished 37 percent so a 2 a literally a 20 point jump in 3 weeks. Thats restaurant. Micrographs friends arent slights against you know whites are men for example theres theres fights against women or more on nonwhite so its its its always you know the idea is that statements that directed toward a privileged group. Differently than a statement directed toward an oppressed group and so thats kind of the whole framework and its its a political framework thats used the result is of course focusing at least on certain kinds of minor slights and saying well rather than ignore them or them we need to call attention to them but its not so its very political and its fun. And were going to fulfill that purpose is probably to the people you know we all pots. That you want to. Know 5. Early on in the campaign you know we did that we we did look at you know some of the results of. Progression amongst the groups. Actually my tush. I am sure the chances. With me you tell me no i needed to be softened by i felt i felt strongly that im unsure told them im sold branch 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 and i am on the committee for justified tour as a candidate for governor and i said. And they said were wondering we would like to ask you to be his running mate i said no im a teacher im not a politician i knew that he wanted somebody who had a background in education because of his lot of experience with education to do that in the schools and such as i thought well you know i do not have i think i had about 30 years under my belt at the ready of being a teacher and i knew the schools from the children 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 they said well youre 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 jesse asking me if i would be interested in being his. Running mate as were 10 oclock and i said yes i will be so obvious from that point i was so excited because i could talk about education you are crucial to the success of this ticket i mean theres no way i dont 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. This day i dont know if people would remember your name but they know that Jesse Ventura ran with that teacher for sending email is a Conference Room and were discussing in the east that we should do a victory tour road to victory tour 1001st time we came off loya you know what 2nd until our and i go all over the state of minnesota in 48 hours or 3 days i had your us within our vienna neither side of the water. And our guest sat there as low as a surrogate in a film as a was there and he says well we should use the internet and do some live shot outside of the front fan of build some momentum saw you know i said then i says ok stop doing Everything Else and lets break this cycle 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 3 cars behind us with with balloons with all those follow us and then as theyd leave others would replace them so were going gaming people everywhere who go to rob will stay with us 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 homework yet and there is still a tremendous number of people that are a nuisance sunday night these people got to work monday morning these are farmers friends or people but they waited there for 2 hours for us to arrive and we come out and it was unbelievable i mean people hanging at midnight in willmar minnesota paying. Office building and of course the other 2 immediately imitated so this skit poetry 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 carrying 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 theyd roll out the stuff that they 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 bread. We hired b. L. U. Ask you shes an agent that she job but everybody also 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 so a poll today this is truly a Peoples Campaign i dont think weve seen anything 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 was a situation where the people in minnesota organize themselves we were driving there to canterbury that night the 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 something strange is going to happen to you. It to me on the way. In 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 up to vote for the status school theyre not waiting in law to vote for skip or more theyre waiting in line because its their 1st time and ill just state this i cant tell you all. Of them. 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 of 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. You know or me up that morning in their little political reporter asked crosses yeah the university of minnesota lions are on the block for young people registering to vote on a watch and thats the 1st time i said my god we may have done it because that was the missing piece that i didnt know the whole time or are they going to show off ive never seen before or since the initial returns came in with the you had 37 percent can you never move ive never seen anything like this all out is 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 him and wins but it never happened he will never get that it was interesting because when. 1st came in the very 1st it was right in the order call me 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 step that they came in with initially and i went some y. Asked to 2nd to 1st that was the real amazing thing is that it was skip and roger bowled in the debates thinking i was going to take republican conservative votes because of fiscal conservative and it was the opposite comfrey at that time was polling like 46 percent. To where he was all the time i was that. It was humphrey that went to 28. 00 and i went to 37 percent norm was always within the margin of error never went up never went down ill never forget the fact that we were in the bathtub 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 over im not gone out there just to go out there you know on the elections over and ill never forget bill was right here to my right side. On the t. V. Set the 1st check mark came up 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 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. Theres only 60 percent of the vote. I said you want me to walk out there and declare myself that i should want to fight. While be the biggest laughing stock in the history i said im not there yet and ill never forget bill sitting there call me a quiet man. He looks at me. He said you trust. Student sure i said yes bill i did he said trust me. I said. I said bill just 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. To. 50 years. And 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. 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