By Manila Ryce
Published Monday, April 7th, 2008, 4:34 pm
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5 Responses to “Jesse Ventura Hints That He’ll Run for Senate”

1. I had a sales manager who started a training session by putting up a slide of Jesse and saying, “I’ll betcha my Governor can whip your governor’s ass!” This was right after he was elected.

   He seems crazy, but I agree with most he says.

   What does that say about me?

   BuelahMan
   04/7/08 at 6:00 pm
   

2. Ventura just met CNN’s truth quota for a month. He had some great points there. I think it would be excellent if he ran for senate in Minnesota. He’s absolutely correct about Al Franken just being a carpetbagger, or more accurately a fish-in-a-barrel shooter.

   That was indeed one strange haircut.

   Andy
   04/7/08 at 6:46 pm
   

3. A Vote for “Anyone but Norm” is a vote for Jack Shepard! U.S. Seante Minnesota In the Minnesota GOP Primary-Sept.9, 2008 www.jackshepardforsenate.com

   Jack is back for a rematch with Sen. Norm Coleman in the
   Sept. 9, 2008 Minnesota Republican Primary for the U.S.
   Senate.

   Rightly so Jack Shepard’s Campaign is titled “Anyone but
   Norm” so vote for Jack Shepard in the Minnesota Republican
   Primary for the United States Senate on September 9, 2008!

   Al Franken’s the Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Senates
   main reason for also running against Norm Coleman is his
   wish to eliminate Norm Coleman from the U.S. Senate. If
   elected as Senator Al Franken; he has promised to work to
   end the Iraqi war and bring our troops home!

   The “ Anyone but Norm” campaign that Jack Shepard is
   running against Norm Coleman in the Republican Primary on
   September 9, 2008 is going to be one of the most important
   and watched Senate races in the nation!

   Can almost unelectable Jack Shepard eliminate Norm
   Coleman and win the Republican Primary in September 9, 2008
   for the U. S. Senate to win the right to run against Al Franken
   and maybe also liberal Former Governor and professional
   wrestler Jesse Ventura in the November General election for
   the United States Senate in the State of Minnesota?

   Just when you thought the 2008 campaign couldn’t get more
   unpredictable Jack Shepard says in his, “Anyone but Norm”
   campaign vote for me in the Republican Primary against Norm
   Coleman on September 9, 2008 is the only way working
   together we can “Dump Norm” easily.

   I know that every member of the Minnesota Democratic Party
   and most independents voters in Minnesota who support Al
   Franken for the U.S. Senate would rather have Al Franken run
   against Jack Shepard then Senator Norm Coleman and former
   Governor Jesse Ventura in the Minnesota General Election in
   November.

   Because Al Franken the Democratic Candidate for the U.S.
   Senate and I, Dr. Jack Shepard the Republican Candidate
   running against the incumbent U. S. Senator Norm Coleman in
   the Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate on September 9,
   2008 share many similar views on so many issues.

   Especially because it looks most likely liberal Former
   Governor Jesse Ventura will also be run for the U.S. Senate.

   If Former Governor Jesse Ventura runs for the U.S. Senate he
   will split the liberal vote and if Senator Norm Coleman beats
   Jack Shepard in the Republican Primary then Senator Norm
   Coleman will get lucky again and will easily get re-elected to
   another 6 years as Minnesota’s Senior United States Senator.

   Now you see how important it is for Jack Shepard’s; “Anyone
   but Norm” campaign to be successful!

   Vote for a Patriot Jack Shepard or vote for a Hypocrite Norm Coleman (chicken-Hawk who would not serve in Vietnam)?

   Jack Shepard must beat Norm Coleman in the Republican Primaryto “Dump Norm”
   to eliminate Norm Coleman in his own Primary is the only way to stop Senator Norm Colemanand affect the outcome of the Minnesota Senate race in 2008!

   For more information contact candidate Dr. Jack Shepard
   shepardj@shepardjack.191.it

   Vote for a Patriot Jack Shepard or vote for a Hypocrite Norm Coleman?

   A very healthy looking Norm Coleman with his new teeth, new hair color, and new nose;

   but never a brave veteran. With graduation from Hofstra looming in 1971, Coleman faced the unhappy prospect of being drafted. But the antiwar activist had better ideas he flunked his physical, after his crash diet. He was deemed too
   skinny to fight by his local Draft Board.

   Norm Coleman ran down the hall screaming
   ‘First blood of the revolution!’“ To me and Tom Buggeln
   Norm Coleman sounded completely crazy ” – Dr. Jack Shepard

   Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some antiwar students roughed up
   an ally who was distributing literature on campus. “I went to him and I bitched about it, and we got into it,” recalls
   Buggeln, now a
   sheriff’s deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping Coleman across the face,
   giving him a bloody lip

   Norm Coleman with his Freak Flag Long Hair

   Everyone called him Norman. The Brooklyn-born kid.
   With his freak flag fly.
   With his the rail-thin physique and scraggly hair that extended halfway down his
   back, he reminded everyone of the song “David Crosby refers to long hair as a freak flag in his song “Almost Cut My Hair, and I feel like letting my freak flag fly”

   Norm Coleman was a striking presence at Hofstra University in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Carting a bullhorn around campus, he’d regularly lecture students about the immorality of the President Nixon’s administration policies and the
   Vietnam War.

   Norm Coleman was the Abbie Hoffman of the sleepy Long Island commuter
   college.

   Tom Buggeln enrolled at Hofstra in 1968 after serving five years in the Navy, including a stint in Vietnam. He
   resented what he viewed as the privileged college kids protesting the war and lambasting U.S. policies. Buggeln allied
   himself with Young Americans for Freedom—a conservative campus group associated with William F.
   Buckley—and frequently clashed with Coleman

   Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some antiwar students roughed up
   an ally who was distributing literature on campus. “I went to him and I bitched about it, and we got into it,” recalls
   Buggeln, now a sheriff’s deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping Coleman
   across the face, giving him a bloody lip. “He ran down the hall screaming,’First blood of the revolution! ‘ or some
   shit like that.”

   Although Coleman styled himself as a hippie, he had no shortage of ambition he, “adeptly cultivated a network of
   professors and administrators.” He had access to those people,” says Carolyn Sofia, who was co-editor-in-chief of the
   Hofstra Chronicle student newspaper during Coleman’s senior year.

   “From my point of view, Norman wanted to take over the Hofstra Chronicle,” says Sofia, who now teaches writing at
   Stony Brook University. “He wanted to be a politician and control the press at the same time.”

   The other hallmark event of Coleman’s college political life occurred at the close of the 1969-70 school years. The
   Nixon administration had recently invaded Cambodia, and campuses across the country erupted in civil disobedience.
   On May 4, Ohio National Guards men killed four unarmed students at Kent State University. Nationwide,violent clashes broke out between students and police on 26 campuses.

   At Hofstra, students staged a campus-wide strike. Protesters took over the student center and the main administration building lead by Norm Coleman. Classes were cancelled.

   Everybody went nuts,” recalls Buggeln. “.. the university was effectively shut down.”
   Norm Coleman was at the forefront was the leader of the unrest, but his triumph was in shutting down the school. At Hofstra, Norm Coleman led the staged campus-wide strike.

   Norm Coleman with his megaphone in hand lead and directed the taking over the Student Center and the Main Administration Building not caring that then and today this was a federal crime!

   With the present environment of the gun violence on many Universities today Norm you most likely not only
   would have been arrested but even could have been shot by the campus police for taking over the Student
   Center and the Main Administration Building. You were guilty but just never got arrested!

   But the Hofstra students were beginning to see through what motivates Norm Coleman’s and his leadership role in the unrest a Hofstra was short-lived; he was not content to be the school’s self styled radical hippie pot smoking anti-establishment activist any more but literally “He wanted to be a politician and from Sofia and many of the students point of view, Norman wanted to take over the Hofstra Chronicle the Hofstra press which would give him control of many aspects of how Hofstra University was run.

   So when students returned to campus in the fall, they voted to replace Coleman with Paul Hearne, a wheelchair-bound student who went on to help draft the Americans with Disabilities Act before dying in 1998.

   With graduation from Hofstra looming in 1971, Coleman faced the unhappy prospect of being drafted. But the antiwar activist tricked his Draft Board by flunked his physical, due to a crash diet he lost enough weight to be deemed too
   skinny to fight in Vietnam.

   In 1971 Norm Coleman ran from the draft using every trick in the book to get out of serving his country during the Vietnam War.

   While by then Dr. Jack Shepard who had volunteered and enlisted to join the Untied States Air Force at the University of Minnesota was promoted to the rank Captain Jack Shepard, as his commander often said Jack always had the right
   stuff.

   Captain Jack E. Shepard would proudly wear his blue United States Air Force
   Captain’s Uniform when he had the chance to return to the University of Minnesota on leave; often getting some cat calls from other long hair pot smoking anti-establishment radical activists like Norm Coleman who worked hard to lose so much weight that he would not get drafted but Captain Jack Shepard did his duty to proudly serve his country.

   Looking at Senator Norm Coleman I see no sign lack of weight or strength of a person who could not serve his country when the draft called.

   NEVER CALL NORM COLEMAN A VETERAN IT WOULD BE AN INSULT TO THE 58,193 BRAVE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN VIETNAM FOLLOWING AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY ! RIGHT OR WRONG.

   More than a decade after those tumultuous times, Herbert Rosenbaum was visiting family in the Twin Cities. Flipping through channels one morning, he came upon a public affairs show featuring the familiar face of Norman Coleman.
   The former studentwas now a prosecutor with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.

   “I was surprised because he took a very hard, law-and-order line”, “Rosenbaum says.

   He sure fooled everyone now and then especially the Draft Board. He is a professional flip-flopper said Warren Spannaus , “”Norman’s one of the classic flip-floppers.”

   His performance certainly didn’t lack for chutzpah, considering Coleman’s own transformation from ’60s-era radical too weak and under weight to be drafted to the strong well built conservative Republican he has literal surgically made himself into. If you see Norm Coleman today; there is no way you would think he ever could have created the illusion that he was to weak and skinny to fight in Vietnam. If you ask me what he did in fooling the draft board stinks. CHICkEN-HAWK

   “Norman’s one of the classic flip-floppers,” says Warren Spannaus, the former Democratic attorney general
   who initially hired Coleman as a prosecutor. “I suppose by the time we get to the election he will have switched over to being against this war, too.”
   For our next U.S. Senate from Minnesota we sure do not need another attorney. The Untied States Congress is dominated by attorneys. Our American Congress when it was created was a fine mix of people from all walks of life
   with all types of backgrounds.

   Today we need people who have a wealth of experience both Nationally and Internationally to get elected to our next U.
   S. Congress. If at any time in our history our next American Senate has an urgent need for some fresh new blood with
   international experience and other talents beside being a past prosecuting attorneys.

   It is urgent for the very future existence of America’s and her survival in these dangerous times that the next U.S.
   Senate elect literal as many military officers who have recently serviced overseas or are presently serving abroad
   especially with their massive experience and understanding of the very complete Middle East Region to educate their
   new fellow Senators about the situation from years of personal contact and dealing with people from all over the world;
   they know how America is presently perceived by other countries.

   Just because a senator has briefly for a few days travelled to Iraq, Israel or Africa etc. they can not even begin to
   understand the most complex situation that America has found itself it in our young history.
   Ask Norm Coleman to show his true colors and why after his failed
   attacks on Kofi Annan, George Galloway Part 1 and George Galloway Part 2 and Jaques Chirac many others how are
   you helping your fellowMinnesotans by becoming the failed Prosecutor of the Untied StatesSenate, the senate has attorney’s for that!

   We in Minnesota wish a Senator who will fight for Minnesotans, even with international experience working to have
   foreign governments adopts human rights and democratic norms like the rest of the world. Instead of a Senator who is
   happy seeing his face on TV and in Newspapers even though he failed in his attempts to prosecuting world leaders; cost
   us Millions of Dollars.

   When will you after 40 years standing up and start telling us who the real Norm Coleman is by first coming
   clean with your fellow Minnesotans by saying: “I, Norm Coleman, smoked pot in 1969.”

   Why Can’t Norm Coleman come out of the closet in 2008 and say “These present arrests for small quantities of pot
   are wrong; look at me Norm Coleman I did it daily for years and look where I have gotten! There has to be a better
   way, and we need to find it. How about you Norm Coleman looking back at your past and saying: “What I did was not
   so wrong and not so bad and not so hurtful that generations of Americans should still, decades later, be going to jail
   for smoking pot - nearly one million arrests for possession last year.”

   If you were arrested you would have never been accepted to legal school or became a US Senator don’t you ever think
   about what you are doing to the futures of 100,000’s of Minnesota kids and teenagers by making them criminals for
   the same pot you smoked but luckily did not get arrest for. The only difference you did not get arrested for your pot
   smoking.. One arrest on their record their chances of finding a job, getting accepted to a major college, getting a
   government loan like you did all made impossible. Do you no ever think how are they going to raise a family, that
   from that minute their life is almost 100% destroyed because their got arrested , remember you also broke the law
   thousands of time but just got lucky in not getting arrested.
   You forget if you were arrested what would you be doing now; who are you with your history of drugs, anti-government behaviour and occupying University building to be the Senate’s Prosecutor; we wanted a Minnesota Senator to fight for Minnesota!

   I ask you Norm Coleman why does Minnesota or the nation for that matter still not really have a real re-entry program to help ex-offenders when they are release from a hostile environment in prison to even a more hostile environment in our communities.

   These ex-offender as still literally abandoned; if elected my first concern would be to write legislation to give tax
   breaks to individual, companies or corporation that hire ex- offenders. I would work with the US Department of Justice though President Bush’s Task Force for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program that the president
   created to help lower the crime rate and help ex-offenders by increasing it’s funding.

   The facts are that presently 2 in 5 ex-offenders are returned to prison after only two years because of lack of any real
   re-entry program in Minnesota. Presently we in Minnesota are not prepared to help the ex-offender to make a
   difference to really give the ex-offenders a real second chance.

   Jesus taught us we have to show them there is forgiveness, there is real redemption and they are welcome in our communities if they start living by the Lords Commandments. .

   We have to give them the chance to once again become productive members of our community by helping them get
   temporary housing after their release, new job skills training and especially employed so for some of them it will be
   the first time in their lives they can proudly say that they have a job and respect in the community.

   Norm Coleman you could have very very easily been a FELON, an ex-offender just getting out of a New York
   Prison.; How about admitting that if the Rockefeller drug laws, “The Rockefeller drug laws are the term used
   to denote the statutes dealing with the sale and possession of drugs; possessing four ounces of marijuana was
   a minimum of 15
   years to life in prison and a maximum of 25 years to life in prison”
   If the Rockefeller drug laws were applied to you, Norman Bruce Coleman on Long Island in 1968 you and
   others we knew and loved might just be getting out of Jail now.” “You smoked pot as you stood on the roof of
   the University Senate ( Norm Coleman you could be a DOUBLE felon) protesting faculty exclusivity.” As
   Norm Kent said your pot smoking buddy.How about standing up and saying:
   “I, Norm Coleman, smoked pot in 1969 and I am lucky that I am not ( a felon) just
   getting out of a New York Jail for being arrested for using drugs and criminal damage to Campus property in the take over Hofstra
   University I lead.” Senator Norm Coleman

   Dr. Jack Shepard swears if elected will work with Congress and not forget to fight to help the struggling Minnesota
   Economy, not like one of Minnesota’s present Senators; Norm Coleman who is more interested in becoming the Prosecutor of the U.S. Senate seeing his face in the media. That is not why Minnesota after win by a margin of only 2% sent Norm Coleman to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate.

   I swear if elected I; Jack Shepard will no forget my fellow Minnesotan’s like Senator Norm Coleman has!

   I will author legislation for new job programs for America and especially for Minnesota.I will create legislation for inner city development programs.

   To save Minnesotans tens of millions of dollars of wasted incarceration costs if elected I would immediately begin
   working with the U.S. Justice Department though President Bush’s Task Force for Faith-Based and Community
   Initiatives program that the President Bush created to help lower the crime rate and help ex-offenders and finally
   create a real re-entry program for Minnesota’s ex-offenders saving Minnesota Millions of dollars.

   I, Jack Shepard if elected your next U.S. Senator would author legislation so people, companies or corporations would
   get tax rebates or other credits for giving ex-offenders jobs. This would not only low the raising crime rate in
   Minnesota but low the sky rocketing costs of incarceration in Minnesota; presently Minnesota spends over $50,000+
   per year for each inmate.

   This would enable our communities to hire more desperately needed law enforcement officers ( job creation) , which
   would make my fellow Minnesotans even safer immediately which would begin to low our present raising crime rate.

   Senator Norm Coleman has been so busy with his very unsuccessful investigations of Oil for Food Programs, and his
   countless investigations and unsuccessful hearing and attacks on world leaders like Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac ,
   George Galloway just to mention a few it is obvious Norm Coleman has forgotten Minnesota!

   It embarrasses me to say it but Senator Coleman forgets only because of a terrible accident did he get sent to the US
   Senate in the first place.

   Senator Coleman after 17 years as a prosecuting attorney has forgotten why he was sent to the U. S. Senate.
   Minnesota sent Norm Coleman to the U.S. Senate to represent and help the people of Minnesota and especially help
   improve Minnesota’s weakening economy.

   Senator Coleman has spent more time investigating international issues then working to help Minnesota’s very weak
   economy and has nothing to stop Minnesota’s raising unemployment especially among minorities.

   No question about it. It is time for a new change to a new U.S. Senator who cares more about Minnesota’s economy and Minnesota’s unemployment, then seeing his new face in the media.

   Minnesotans are sick of seeing Norm Coleman’s face in the media spending wasted months on international investigations and cross examining people from all over the world with no results to show from it but a tremendous
   waste of time and a tremendous cost to the American tax payers of tens of millions of dollars.

   Minnesotan’s wish a new U.S. Senator that will care about and work to help Minnesota first. Norm Coleman was send
   to the U.S. Senate to be a Senator and help Minnesota not to do his old job of being a Prosecuting Attorney on TV
   again.

   The choice is you’re my fellow Minnesotans but remember these things.

   While Norm Coleman in 1971 was at Hofstra University NY; as a pot-smoking student hippie activist protesting the
   war and lambasting U.S. policies which he still denies. As a pot smoking hippie activist anti-Vietnam War Protester he
   tricked military draft board and went on a crash diet so the Military Draft Board classified him as to skinny to go to
   serve his country in Vietnam.

   NEVER CALL SEN. MORM COLEMAN A VETERAN! HE KNOWS WHY!

   CALL HIM A HYPOCRITE FOR AS A MINNESOTA PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FOR 17 YEARS HE HAS SENT TENS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND STUDENTS TO PRISON FOR POT POSSESSION A CRIME THAT HE ALSO
   WAS GUILTY OF FOR YEARS BUT ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS HE DID NOT GET ARRESTED FOR IT ! THAT IS
   WHY HE IS A HYPOCRITE.

   Vote for a Patriot Jack Shepard or vote for a Hypocrite Norm Coleman!

   Time for a Change! Time for Change!

   Dr. Jack Shepard, is a Contender for the Republican Nomination for the U.S. Senate in the Minnesota
   Republican Primary on September 9, 2008

   Jack Shepard 4 Senate (R-MN)
   04/12/08 at 7:01 am
   

4. Has anyone made it through that last diatribe? I’m pretty excited about Jesse Ventura! We might have to add a face to Mount Rushmore!

   Tony Powers
   04/21/08 at 6:33 pm
   

5. Run Jesse run! I did not vote for Jesse as Governor but would gladly have worked, contributed and voted for him had he sought re-election. He has a way of cutting through the bull, has provocative ideas but is willing to change his opinions when he gets new information (for instance, when he ran he was for the death penalty but when he was governor, and would have had the power of life or death over an inmate, decided that it was not something man should do — especially with the advance of DNA evidence).

   How refreshing it would be to have another independent in the US Senate (joining Vermont’s Bernie Sanders as the second real independent — no counting Lieberman who was tossed out of his party).

   Run Jesse run!

   Progressive Minnesotan
   05/19/08 at 1:41 pm
   

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