Always been anti democrat and republican and in my neighborhood up there all of a sudden i started seeing nice barkley signs for congress or senate. Barkley barkley. Whos this barkley this Independence Party at the time. And so on. I realized that the majority of the. Great many of them were disgruntled democrats and republicans who feel the systems failing and they want something new. I felt that way also in. The long story shorter. Walk in it so were walking. Crazy but theyre going crazy for me. Good deed leaning over to me and whisper in there didnt have to whisper it was pretty loud he said see the wrong guys running that was the. Thats the wife of my you know it was my hometown was a little embarrassing. But the north completely really did. And i just wonder this would translate into popular and thats where the idea how my hand in thats worth of 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 on 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 with ralph as ok then 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 37 and i figured well the young voter doesnt vote for it out from if we can motivate that walk of voters to take a chance and show up 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 silly unit event like these im on would you describe it to slugger should he already have will fly but i mean you think of a Governor Campaign you can oh you can understand or picture what the other side of the dialler not hearing their perilous at the time you know good thing which is where the campaign was let her read caroline a little dollar a day before and you know we were never as i and dead 3 to line the Campaign Manager was a poll to have you know theres a bolt out if you are at them and i know hes running told he cant make this stuff up knowing it it was a complete. It was as grass d root as you could possibly as early as hes 34 people down doing things that was yeah 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 said 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 or 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 feeling as 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 event 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. Skip humphrey the democrat Hubert Humphreys 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 them 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 shouldnt i shouldnt be former mayor Jesse Ventura because were talking politics here but thats the body or so that i face but in hindsight that was probably good but if they did name the other 2 his 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 the family disease of luxury is 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 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 and he says us me a question i gave you an answer. Joe nobody knew it to be nobody and i dont say you know history of politics or ever not use their entire 2 minutes to Say Something i want to piggyback or that now because i dont need mean and said yes and. 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 good night and the moderator of the new way yes i mean if he did so at that double song getting 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 outfit you know anything like a sweatshirt in and innocence yeah i was almost lax 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 a 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 ive ever seen wallet how can you have a sign telling you who you love and who you dont get to sit by your bedside its dying for your remote in an emergency and because you gain youre not allowed in there whos your insanity 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 no degree i gave you 2 things of the voice for me its i said number one is tell the truth just dont want to think never too soon if you dont know the answer minute yeah its fine itll make you look a real person you dont have it all there and just personal your performance and your big you know we want from what beginning at september terrier shares them going to the shop to the mid twentys and we hadnt spent one penny on africa izing and that mop i think we did a couple radio at that was set. And thats more we got into position actually when i looked it up just a day or 2 ago on and says he was at 15 percent october 5th. And finished with 37 percent sure to a literally a 20 point jump in 3 weeks too and thats just a comical is in the. Same wrong but i. Just dont. 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Naturally my to start to roll the level of revenue stream we hope i am sure that the chances of me becoming you know i needed to be softened by felt i felt strongly that im im sure told them im sold the ranch that that put a fair and a lot of people i actually was polishing my Kitchen Cabinets that i get this call they said. My name is and i am on the committee for justice and 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 i thought well you nor 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 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 they said well youre near 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 lieutenant and i said yes i will bill so i was 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 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 it teach or seem is confident. And we were discussing and he said we should do a victory term road to victory to your house the 1st time we came off my ass. 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 meter solar. And now were going to shop 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 shots on the front fan of build some momentum saw i know i said then i says ok stop doing Everything Else and lets break this im happy 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 people are going on the road john and pam hears right through the cars behind those with with balloons with all this follow us and then as theyd leave others would replace them so were going gaming people everywhere who go to rubble status 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 was 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 off the building and of course the other 2 immediately imitate it so this skipped town for 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 for a crowd yes the old 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 on 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 a 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 eyeball bread. We hired b. L. Yes because shes an agent that she job but everybody also on my campaign the only person that got paid was doug fried lime 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 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 that you said 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 quo theyre not waiting in line to vote for skip or more money theyre waiting in line because its their 1st time and ill just state this i cant tell you all 6 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 we have that morning in their little political report of us crosses yeah the university of minnesota im a girl lives around the block for young people registering to vote on a watch and thats the 1st time i said may god we may have done that 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 although i was yes all night it was 37 percent and coleman was trailing the 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 the 1st very returns came in the very 1st it was right in new york Humphrey Coleman many of the 2nd returns came in Humphrey Ventura Coleman i moved up to 2nd and then i think it was what 5 percent to 7 percent was when i took the lead. But they came in with the. Last 2nd the 1st real amazing thing is that it was skip. In the debates thinking i was going to take republican conservative votes because of fiscal conservative it was the opposite. 46 percent. He was all the time i was. Always within the margin of. Never went up never went down ill never forget the fact that we were in the bath. Once to the crowd and they were. In and i said. Im not there just to go out there. Ill never forget was right here to my right side. On the t. V. Set the for. Jesse venturas being declared the winner i dont remember which is 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 and. There was only 60 percent of the vote. And they were declaring me the winner. Everyone wanted me to. There was only 60 percent of the vote. I said you want me to walk out there and declare myself the i should. Be the biggest laughingstock and. I said im not there yet and ill never forget bill sitting there call me quiet and. He looks at me. He said trust me. I said bill 40 percent of the phone left how can you say they havent been wrong in 15 years because youve got to go all the way to. Do your true. 50 years. In 50 years. And i remember all of those huddling in. 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 history it was just chaos at that point and i remember the other memory was when i finally did walk out all those volunteer cops were nowhere in sight all of a sudden there was like 12 smoke. Around me and. Everyone out of the way. It was like almost you got taken over you know you got taken over no longer. 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 we shocked the world if you would have been behind the scenes you would have truly understood what that what that statement said before we shot the world because in all you know we we had great people. We had no money. To speak of the dems and republicans. You know. That. When cash did. Title i always remembered quote we shock. And thats how i felt that night i felt. I shocked. Nobody gave us a chance but we did it. Well done. Captured the mome