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Professional wrestler and former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has garnered the most media attention of this spring’s fellows at Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), but he’s surrounded by a seasoned cadre of politicos who will provide insights into this year’s presidential election: an expert on youth and Hollywood perspectives on politics, a longtime Democratic strategist, the Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, a former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and an expert on political mobilization...
...IOP Director Daniel R. Glickman introduced this spring’s new slate of resident political gurus at a press conference held yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government...
...former governor will “engage students who are interested in third parties and looking to shake up the status quo,” said outgoing IOP Fellows Chair Brian M. Goldsmith...
Solomon said that the invitation to Ventura stemmed from the IOP student leaders’ suggestions...
...Some people are invited because of their blinding insights into the political process. And some people are invited as exhibits,” said 2002 South Carolina Democratic senatorial nominee Alex Sanders, who was an IOP fellow this fall...