Ventura, who called the four years “a life experience beyond belief,” said his greatest failure was not consolidating Minnesota’s two houses of its Legislature into one body — unicameral. He pushed the issue heavily during his tenure, but it never came to fruition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From the Baltimore Sun’s “Ring Posts”:<\/p>\n
Is there anything that you wanted to accomplish as governor that you didn\u2019t?<\/p>\n
Oh, yeah. My biggest failure was not getting a vote on unicameral \u2013 one house state legislature. We don\u2019t need two houses. Nebraska is the only state that has unicameral, and in their 70- or 80-year existence of it, they\u2019ve never had a special session due to the fact that they couldn\u2019t find a conclusion to their budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s right, Jesse.\u00a0 That’s just <\/em>what we need; for government to pound out mo bigga budgets like crap through a goose.<\/p>\nAnd while I try to stay away from rhetoric like ” so and so was the stupidest moron who ever wandered to the head of the class”, if you read carefully between the lines\u00a0 you can probably tell that that’s what I’d be saying about our former Governor, if I were to write such things.<\/p>\n
But it’s a good thing I don’t say things like that:<\/p>\n
At the state level, we do not need two houses. In fact it violates the Constitution because it\u2019s supposed to be one person, one vote, but because you have two houses you have one person, two votes, because you have an elected representative and a senator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
{{facepalm}}<\/p>\n
Anyway – all you conspiracy buffs out there?\u00a0 He’ll be bringing that keen intellect to your field, now.<\/p>\n
My condolences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the benefit of all of you who were either not in Minnesota, or were too young to remember:\u00a0 Before Jesse Ventura started his career making skepticism look moronic and trite, he was governor of Minnesota. No kidding!\u00a0 It’s like 37% of Minnesotans went to parties on election day, got really really hammered on cheap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}