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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...
...Ventura stunned political observers in 1998 when—running as a third-party candidate—he defeated well-established Democratic and Republican contenders to capture the North Star State’s governorship...
...Ventura ruffled more than a few feathers when he told Playboy magazine that religion was a “sham and a crutch for weak-minded people...
Solomon said that the invitation to Ventura stemmed from the IOP student leaders’ suggestions...
...Hill, a Washington, D.C. paper, first reported the IOP’s invitation to Ventura on Wednesday...