It Was Ten Years Ago…
By Mitch Berg
…on the same election night where Jesse Ventura got elected “Governor” that I got around 37,855 votes for State Treasurer, running as a Libertarian.
(My only platform plank? Abolish the office of State Treasurer. As luck would have it, that was also the subject of a ballot initiative that year, which passed by a 2-1 margin. While some DFL hack got most of the votes, I declared moral victory; the people decided they didn’t need some party flak to do their abolishing for them).
But this year, I didn’t even know my hat was in the ring…
November 4th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
At least Bobo the monkey didn’t beat you.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I think I voted for you in ’98.
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