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...party consistency makes eminent sense. In states that do not have such restrictions, governors sometimes choose replacements from their own party rather than from the party of the previous Senator." Notably, in 2002, after Democratic Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, Independent Party Gov. Jesse Ventura replaced him with fellow Independent Party member, Dean Barkley...
...left but the current ones and those hurlers had already logged two innings? Is there anyone breathing who still thinks that was a good idea? If you’re going to be a coward about protecting Vicente Padilla’s arm, okay, but at least let Robin Ventura or Junior Spivey throw an inning. Do anything but call off the game...
Still, Minnesotans have been known to embrace unlikely candidates. Remember Governor Jesse Ventura? And at the moment, Franken is well positioned to become the state's Democratic nominee. The outlook for the general election is too early to call: a poll taken just before Franken's announcement had him losing to incumbent Norm Coleman 35% to 57%. A later poll showed the gap at just 10 points...
...According to Snyder, Butler’s enthusiasm also helped him get cast as Leonidas, the Spartan king who leads a band of 300 men to fight a Persian force of a million. When Butler and Snyder first met in a coffee shop on Los Angeles’s Ventura Boulevard to discuss the script, Butler came with his character already prepared.“When he showed up, he stomped around the coffee shop and he was acting like Leonidas,” Snyder recalls.The director shot the film in only 60 days. Because everything was done against...
...four-decade-old Institute of Politics has sported a high-profile fellows class. Recent resident fellows have included longtime Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee ’42, Democratic political operative Joe Trippi, and former professional wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura. Fellows lead semester-long study groups that meet weekly and are open to all students at the University...