All This Is That: Jesse Ventura to run against Al Franken for Senate

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Jesse Ventura to run against Al Franken for Senate

Jesse Ventura, the guy you'd want beside you in a dark alley

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura told NPR's David Welna today that he will run for the Senate, against Sen. Norm Coleman (whom Ventura beat in a race for governor in 1998). He will also be running against Al Franken.

Ventura said the main reason he's running is because of Coleman's support for the war in Iraq. "That's the reason I run," he says. "I run because it angers me...All you Minnesotans take a good hard look at all three of us. And you decide: if you were in a dark alley which one of the three of us would you want with you?

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