Neil Gray
Over the past weekend, Jesse Ventura took to Twitter to address reports that he was going to run for President.
To say ‘The Body’ wasn’t amused by these click-bait articles would be an understatement;
Throughout my life, “journalists” have written salacious click bait articles about me & now I see misleading tweets in hopes that I comment directly to them to correct their errors so they get a bump in their feed. Not playing that game.
— Jesse Ventura (@GovJVentura) April 23, 2020
Earn your paycheck. Verify something. Anything. Let’s start with: No, I haven’t filed to run for office. Do some fact checking before you state that I’m taking someone on. It’s called ENDORSING a political party. READ the tweets. They’re self explanatory. VOTE GREEN.
— Jesse Ventura (@GovJVentura) April 23, 2020
And that seemed to be the end of that.
The former Governor of Minnesota had zero interest in doing anything other than endorsing the Green Party and running for the White House was off the table.
Well, 48 hours is a long time in politics or some such gubbins, and it appears that Ventura might be having a change of heart as he has since sent out these two tweets;
OK, I've decided I'm going to test the waters. IF I were going to run for president, the GREEN party would be my first choice. I've endorsed the party and I'm testing the waters. #mondaythoughts #MondayMorning #MondayMotivaton #MondayMood
— Jesse Ventura (@GovJVentura) April 27, 2020
To be clear: I haven't filed anything. I authorized a letter of interest that was sent on my behalf to the Greens and I'm testing the waters for Green Party nomination. I'm an independent. I'm not a Democrat or a Republican because I know they're not the solution.
— Jesse Ventura (@GovJVentura) April 27, 2020
Apparently, there has been enough of a positive reaction for Jesse to think about changing his mind and running on the Green Party ticket, if they’ll accept him.
As someone who refuses to vote, as I consider every single politician as corrupt as the next, I hear “Don’t vote? Then don’t complain” quite a lot.
My standard reply to this is “Don’t want me to complain? Then give me someone worth voting for” and in Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura that’s exactly what the American voters might be getting.
Just a shame I live in the United Kingdom.
I wonder if we can reanimate Big Daddy in time for our next general election?
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