Ventura Governor Cant Let This Happen Again
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Gov. Jesse Ventura announced Tuesday he won't run for re-election. Ventura made his announcement on Minnesota Public Radio'southward Midday program, ending months of speculation over whether he'd seek a second term. Ventura said he wants to protect his family's privacy. But he says he made his conclusion before news coverage of reported parties thrown by his son at the governor's mansion. Ventura's decision changes the political dynamics of the governor'south race, and may entice former Minnesota Congressman Tim Penny to jump in. Most 4 years after the former professional person wrestler-turned-radio talk show host "shocked the world" with his surprise victory, Gov. Ventura says he doesn't want the chore anymore. "You've got to have your heart and soul into these types of jobs, y'all've got to want to practise it," Ventura said. "And I view it as no different - I did four years active duty in the Navy, at a federal level, I did 4 years agile duty every bit a mayor, at a city level, now I've washed four years of active duty at a country level. That's 12 years of public service that I've given right now in my life." Ventura says he fabricated his decision before leaving on a merchandise mission to China, but waited to announce it until his render. He says it was non a reaction to news reports in which former employees of the governor'due south mansion told of cleaning up after parties thrown by Ventura'south 22-year-former son Tyrel. But Ventura was clearly angry with the sometime employees, maxim they lied and betrayed him. "I don't like the fact that they're somehow portraying that the get-go lady and I are somehow bad parents," Ventura said. "I will tell y'all on the record that my son'due south beliefs is exemplary. He's 22 years one-time. He's a man, he's an adult. He tin can consume alcohol if he wants to. I behaved far worse at his age." Ventura says he thinks a public official's family should be off limits. He says he didn't campaign with his wife Terry or his ii children when he ran for governor four years ago. Ventura says he now plans to return to the individual sector, although he wouldn't say what he'll do. He says he won't accept to reveal his decisions afterward his term ends. "I won't accept to reply to the press whatever more, I won't have to justify anything I practise any more. I'1000 going back to the individual sector." Ventura says he thinks he would have won, if he had chosen to run once more. The gubernatorial candidates who are in the race disagree. DFLer Roger Moe, the Senate majority leader, said during a campaign stop in Duluth that Ventura would have had to defend his record. "And he would have had a very hard fourth dimension justifying some of the things that he had proposed. Certainly this tax programme - which he said would bring double-digit revenue enhancement relief to everybody in the country - this expanse of the state knows that that's non what happened," Moe said. "So, he would have been entirely different, and he would have had a very hard fourth dimension getting re-elected." Ventura cited his belongings taxation reform plan as ane of the accomplishments of his term. The plan shifted most of the cost of K-12 funding from local property taxpayers to the state. Ventura also touted the rebate checks - dubbed "Jesse checks" - that were mailed out three of his four years in part. Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Pawlenty, the House bulk leader, credited Ventura for tax relief. Pawlenty says he'll at present try to appeal to Minnesotans who voted for Ventura. "If y'all wait at the places where he did particularly well - there'south lots of them, and I don't want to stereotype - but they tended to be places where folks take modest incomes, Anoka Canton, parts of Dakota County, my hometown of Due south St. Paul. Those are areas where nosotros're going to accept a message that says, 'Look, I don't recall yous're virtually...the liberal left. I don't retrieve they comprehend the politics of the liberal left," Pawlenty said. The 3rd major party gubernatorial candidate - the Green Political party's Ken Pentel - says he now becomes the contained vocalisation in the race. Like Ventura'due south Independence Party, the Green Political party rejects special involvement money. Pentel is a field organizer and lobbyist. He says he'southward the political outsider in the race, considering he'southward never held office. "People that are not decided on their party or their affiliation now take a clearer choice than they did before. Preceding Jesse'southward announcement, they might accept divided their vote among the Green Party and the Independence Party somewhat," Pentel said. The Independence Party is now scrambling to discover a gubernatorial candidate, with less than a calendar month to become until the filing borderline. Ventura says he wants former DFL Congressman Tim Penny to run as an independent. Penny, a former Ventura advisor, says he'south seriously because it. "I thought that the governor was very well-positioned for re-election, because he was substantially going to exist opposed by the partisan Republican and partisan Democrat leader from the Legislature," Penny said. "That's part of the problem, there's too much partisanship on so many issues." Penny says he'll try to make a determination past the terminate of side by side week. Ventura says if Penny doesn't run, he doesn't know who he'll support - he says he won't vote for either Moe or Pawlenty. He says the 2 leaders put their political aspirations alee of good policy during the last legislative session, when they rejected his budget-balancing plan for one that relied on one-time coin and bookkeeping shifts. "They put their own personal agenda ahead of the state'south agenda. I saw that very clearly, and neither of those candidates in my opinion will brand a good governor, because their own personal political calendar will come starting time." Following Ventura's announcement, several Midday callers urged the governor to reconsider his conclusion. "You're making a mistake! We voted for you the showtime time effectually, and you accept run this state similar we've raised our children - do what you say, say what you do, and be accountable for your determination! And that kind of honesty you can't detect in the political loonshit anymore," said i caller. "We will be writing your name in, unless another third-party candidate comes effectually. We back up you in your wanting to protect your family, and hope you won't concur it against usa when we elect you lot as a write-in candidate," said another. Other callers weren't equally complimentary. "He showed no respect for those public officials that get and give fourth dimension out of their lives to endeavor and make the state piece of work. He made no attempt to make the country work...he was disrespectful to the press, he called the media jackals. Well, estimate what? The jackals brought the jerk down with their story on Tyrel," one caller said. "I'd like to know where Governor Ventura was when everyone was throwing upward in the people's house," said another. "I voted for him, and within that kickoff twelvemonth, I was more and more depressed and I saw the true face of what I voted for. It'due south Jesse number one and Minnesota number ii. And he had so much potential," some other caller said. Ventura had said his wife's opinion would be a major factor in his determination. Showtime lady Terry Ventura joined her married man in the studio, and said she supports his conclusion. She compared beingness first lady to giving birth - there's a lot of pain, but the end result was important. Ventura says the past four years accept been a fun ride. "Like the Grateful Dead, what a strange trip it'due south been. But nosotros motility on, and our lives will continue, they won't stop here," the governor said. "I but can't wait to have him home once again," said Terry Ventura. As Ventura left the studio, he said he felt like Richard Nixon. He said we "won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore." 
Ventura not running for second term
By Laura McCallum
Minnesota Public Radio
June 18, 2002 
Source: http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200206/18_mccalluml_notrunning/
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