OF
DEMOCRAT / REPUBLICAN DOMINATION
IT'S TIME TO
SENATOR
FUNNYMAN
THE NEXT SENATOR FROM THE GREAT STATE OF MINNESOTA, JESSE VENTURA
NORM COLEMAN AL FRANKEN
NORM COLEMAN AL FRANKEN
RETALIATE
IN '08!
JESSE VENTURA
FOR U.S. SENATE!
FOR U.S. SENATE!
1 day and counting until July 15th!
The filing deadline for entering the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.
While Senator Coleman and funnyman Al Franken have had exploratory campaign committees open and have been running for this Senate seat for years,
and while Coleman and Franken have each raised and spent millions of dollars already,
Ventura is taking a different approach.
Ventura has always said, that if he enters this race, he will do it the same way he did
in 1998 in his successful campaign for Governor. He will announce his intentions
and file to run for office, on the very last day you are eligible to file for office.
This year, that's July 15th.
In the multi-million dollar, months long Franken/Coleman race so far,
we've heard all about how Franken had a little problem in paying his taxes,
in 16 different states! We've heard all about Coleman's sordid, sweetheart
deal on his living arrangements with bigtime, big business Washington insiders.
We've been exposed to the unseemly way Norm handles the trash in his back alley,
and we've been introduced to Al's sweet old fifth grade teacher.
All that for the bargain price of 5 million dollars.
You know what?
Jesse Ventura doesn't need a multi-million dollar campaign
that stretches on endlessly for years.
Jesse Ventura can get his points across in alot less time than that,
for alot less dollars than that.
Just like back in 1998,
when he filed for office on the last day possible,
was outspent over 20 to 1, and still went on to win.
It's Jesse Ventura's own version of campaign finance reform.
It won't take years,
it won't take 10's of millions of dollars,
but Minnesotans will get the message.
A fiscally responsible message.
An environmentally responsible message.
A socially moderate message.
A message about bringing a responsible end to the War in Iraq.
The winning Independent message
That will finally put an end to 148 years of
Democrat/Republican domination in the U.S. Senate!
The filing deadline for entering the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.
While Senator Coleman and funnyman Al Franken have had exploratory campaign committees open and have been running for this Senate seat for years,
and while Coleman and Franken have each raised and spent millions of dollars already,
Ventura is taking a different approach.
Ventura has always said, that if he enters this race, he will do it the same way he did
in 1998 in his successful campaign for Governor. He will announce his intentions
and file to run for office, on the very last day you are eligible to file for office.
This year, that's July 15th.
In the multi-million dollar, months long Franken/Coleman race so far,
we've heard all about how Franken had a little problem in paying his taxes,
in 16 different states! We've heard all about Coleman's sordid, sweetheart
deal on his living arrangements with bigtime, big business Washington insiders.
We've been exposed to the unseemly way Norm handles the trash in his back alley,
and we've been introduced to Al's sweet old fifth grade teacher.
All that for the bargain price of 5 million dollars.
You know what?
Jesse Ventura doesn't need a multi-million dollar campaign
that stretches on endlessly for years.
Jesse Ventura can get his points across in alot less time than that,
for alot less dollars than that.
Just like back in 1998,
when he filed for office on the last day possible,
was outspent over 20 to 1, and still went on to win.
It's Jesse Ventura's own version of campaign finance reform.
It won't take years,
it won't take 10's of millions of dollars,
but Minnesotans will get the message.
A fiscally responsible message.
An environmentally responsible message.
A socially moderate message.
A message about bringing a responsible end to the War in Iraq.
The winning Independent message
That will finally put an end to 148 years of
Democrat/Republican domination in the U.S. Senate!
AMERICA HASN'T HEARD THE LAST OF JESSE VENTURA.
YOU CAN BE SURE OF THAT.
LATEST NEWS-
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be coming to Minnesota to head an Independence Party fundraiser on July 26th! Could it indicate Ventura will be soon entering the Senate race? Read Paul Demko's article in the Minnesota Independent -
http://www.minnesotaindependent.com/view/ventura-watch-does
Demko
is correct, the Bloomberg visit could mean something. It's rare
for a major political figure to associate with Minnesota's Independence
Party. But Bloomberg is a smart guy, he knows that to build a
nationwide third party movement this is the place to start. When
Ventura was elected Minnesota's Governor in 1998, it was the biggest
third party victory in the U.S. in over 50 years.
There are 435 seats up for election in the U.S. House of Representatives every 2 years. In the past 5 election cycles to the U.S. House, which covers over 2000 elections, in a race with a Republican, a Democrat, and a third party candidate, the highest third party vote totals happened to be for Independence Party candidate Tom Foley in the Congressional district that represents St. Paul, and Independence Party candidate Tammy Lee in the Congressional district that represents Minneapolis.
There are 435 seats up for election in the U.S. House of Representatives every 2 years. In the past 5 election cycles to the U.S. House, which covers over 2000 elections, in a race with a Republican, a Democrat, and a third party candidate, the highest third party vote totals happened to be for Independence Party candidate Tom Foley in the Congressional district that represents St. Paul, and Independence Party candidate Tammy Lee in the Congressional district that represents Minneapolis.
Nowhere
else in the United States are citizens more willing to cast their vote
for a third party candidate than right here in Minneapolis, and in St.
Paul, and in the state of Minnesota. The voting record proves
that. Minnesota Independence Party candidates will routinely get
significant chunks of the vote. 5%, 10%, 20% and more. And
as Ventura proved, sometimes we'll even win it all. To learn lessons on
how to build a successful third party, and to have the base to build a
nationwide third party movement, Minnesota is the place to be.
And what better base to build that third party movement of
change than to have Jesse Ventura's voice in the U.S. Senate?
The Bloomberg fundraiser will take place 11 days after when
Ventura might enter the race. The visit by the high profile,
highly respected Mayor Bloomberg would be a tremendous boost to the
early stages of a Ventura Senate campaign. Also, Mayor Bloomberg
who recently switched his political affiliation to 'independent' will
establish some street cred among third party activists nationwide just
by showing up at this event. That someone of Bloomberg's stature
is even interested, this is a good thing all around.
Tickets for the fundraiser are available through Minnesota's Independence Party. Priority seating for the Mayor's speech, and an exclusive meet and greet with Mayor Bloomberg is $100. General admission is $25. Student admission is $10. Continental breakfast included!
http://www.mnip.org/bloombergtickets.shtml
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Tickets for the fundraiser are available through Minnesota's Independence Party. Priority seating for the Mayor's speech, and an exclusive meet and greet with Mayor Bloomberg is $100. General admission is $25. Student admission is $10. Continental breakfast included!
http://www.mnip.org/bloombergtickets.shtml
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In the first statewide poll on the Minnesota Senate race to include Coleman, Franken, and Ventura, the Rasmusson Poll finds Ventura at 24% of the vote!-
http://wcco.com/local/ventura.senate.race.2.748001.html
24% is not bad. In fact, it's quite good! Considering, Coleman and Franken have each spent millions of dollars on this campaign so far. And Ventura hasn't spent one dime.
And he's polling at 24%!
And while Coleman and Franken have basically been campaigning for years, slinging mud at each other, Ventura hasn't even entered the race yet, spent the winter in Mexico,
and has yet to engage the other candidates on the issues,
And he's polling at 24%!
Ventura always notoriously underperforms in the polls. For some reason, the polling organizations don't seem to register the third party voters. In early September 1998, two months before Ventura won election as Governor of Minnesota, the polls were showing Ventura at 10%.
In the final poll in the days before the 1998 election conducted by the state's oldest newspaper the St. Paul Pioneer Press, it showed Ventura polling at 24%!
The final poll in 1998 by St. Cloud University also showed Ventura polling at 24%!
24% for Ventura in the polls? We'll take it.
And with Ventura at 24% in the polls when he hasn't even entered the race yet, Coleman and Franken should be worried. Very worried.
IMPORTANT LINKS!-
Sign the petition at Voters4Ventura to urge Jesse Ventura to get into this race now!
View some of the thousands of signers to this petition and their comments which have flooded in from all corners of the country-
http://www.voters4ventura.com/petition/signers.php
Independence Party of Minnesota -
