I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up - Hardcover

Ventura, Jesse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503323 ISBN 13: 9780375503320

Verlag: Villard Books, 1999

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James George Janos describes his experiences in the Navy SEALs, the professional wrestling career that made him "Jessie the Body" Ventura, and his plans as governor of Minnesota

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<br><b>Jesse Ventura</b> the Governor of Minnesota, lives with his wife and their teenaged son and daughter in Saint Paul.

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he left the navy SEALs to become a pro wrestler, the fans knew him as "Jesse, the Body."<br><br>When he hosted his hard-hitting KFAN radio talk show, he became "Jesse, the Mouth."<br><br>And now that this body-slamming, straight-talking, charismatic hero is masterminding Minnesota's gubernatorial decisions, you'd better start calling him "Jesse, the Mind."<br><br>In <b>I Ain't Got Time to Bleed</b>, Jesse Ventura reveals the secret of his landslide electoral success―with record voter turnout―and maps his innovative strategies for pioneering a new era in American government. In his own inimitable words, he takes on bloated government, career politicians, and apathetic voters, and tells the wildly colorful story of his days as a navy SEAL, his nights in the pro-wrestling ring, and his experiences on radio and in films like <i>Predator</i> and <i>Batman and Robin</i> .<br><br><b>I Ain't Got Time to Bleed</b> is &l

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Our final big push came seventy-two hours before the election. We rented some RVs, set up a live Internet feed, and headed out on a thirty-four-stop trip around the state, straight through, no sleep. But I knew from my background that I could do it-it was less than half of Hell Week!

As those all-important last hours ticked down, we stole all the thunder from the other two campaigns. The press jumped on board with us, because we were having all the fun. We invited people, "Come along! Jump in your cars and come with us for as long as you want to go!" We had times when we were going down the highway with twenty-five cars tooting their horns, waving banners and flags. We came into cities in a whirlwind of noise. Later, people rushed home and jumped on the Internet to see if they could see pictures of themselves. There was running commentary, "Jesse's now left for Hutchinson. . . ." We literally stole all the publicity and all the momentum that weekend. That's when I started to believe we had a shot at winning. I always knew we had an outside chance, but that's the first time the possibility really began to seem real to me.

Even Terry started to feel it. She went on the seventy-two-hour blitz with us. It was her first real involvement in the campaign. I had told her from the start that I didn't expect her to be part of it unless she wanted to be. She could be as little or as much involved as she liked.

It was during that blitz that my confrontation with Hillary Clinton took place. It was on Saturday-I think we were in Rochester that morning-that Hillary had come into town to stump for Humphrey. One of the press guys came up to me and said, "Did you hear what Hillary Clinton said about you? She said it's time to end the carnival sideshow act that's going on here and get down to the business of electing Skip Humphrey. How do you feel about Hillary Clinton calling you a carnival sideshow act?"

I said, "It seems to me, rather than being concerned about Minnesota politics, Hillary should be more concerned about leaving Bill home alone. He seems to get into a lot of mischief whenever she leaves him." You wanna start the fight, the Klingon's gonna draw the line in the sand. Strike us, and you make us stronger.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Villard Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375503323
• ISBN 13: 9780375503320
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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