The 1998 Minnesota Gubernatorial Debate

[@XM394-xxx]

I live in the Baja

[@powerof9915]

@XM394-xxx There are no laws just more regulations

[@rustinusti]

@@powerof9915Wait til this guy learns that every law is a regulation 🙊

[@theshootinterviewman]

I built a deck that doesn’t have Y beams…it could fall down at any moment, I invite as many people over for tortillas and scrambled eggs hoping one day it’ll fall! 🙂‍↔️

[@TehUltimateSnake]

@@rustinusti Wait til this guy figures out he's replying to a quote 🐵

[@jonfranks6902]

These guys probably thought beforehand….. this wrestler is gonna be a pushover. Didn’t even consider Jesse legitimate competition. Boy were they wrong.

[@rattsjcfanpage01]

Funny how the democrat and republican are arguing back and forth… Jesse is just sitting there like… okay😐

[@jonathansantos2271]

You notice that too....awesome🎵

[@rattsjcfanpage01]

@@jonathansantos2271 but i dont know if thats for show or not but i would be like, okay shut up!

[@jonathansantos2271]

@@rattsjcfanpage01 yes, government students!

[@Reno_56101]

I was 24 in 98. I had no interest in politics, but Jesse changed that for me. I was excited to vote that day. 1998 was an exciting year in Minnesota. The Vikings were 15-1 and Jesse Ventura shocked the world.

[@chrispeterson8781]

I can see why Jesse won. I was 16 and unable to vote then, but Skip is striking me as a old time politician, Norm comes across as slick willy, or a guy from the east coast, and Jesse just talks sense. Even if all 3 of them are sort of saying the same things politicians are still saying to this day. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@ExplisitHipHop]

Your statement can be said for some things but there is no Ventura in 2024 trying to battle Trump or Harris ..so things did change..Jesse moved on because he doesn't qualify under his terms but back then he found a way...

[@java620]

I don’t even live in the continental United States. I’m in the BAJA.

[@billykokkinidis]

Jesse had me with his wink

[@frankrusso8179]

swish.

[@tylercox1875]

@@billykokkinidis same

[@davidsmith-uw2ci]

They talked about competition, competition, competition. And now Monopolies are running out of control and running wild.

[@ryanb7186]

This is only 26 years ago, yet this seems like watching a political debate of a different people from a different planet, compared to the cesspool that our politics has become today.

[@THELAKERSWAG]

God bless jesse ventura

[@rattsjcfanpage01]

Jesse needs to be president! He has the right mind set and he knows what’s right.

[@jimmyjohn3772]

I saw the PBS Documentary on Jesse, it was great

[@jonathansantos2271]

Wow, former governor Jesse Ventura was a mayor too? He is the man to work with💌

[@mikekelly3901]

I'm a Navy Seal and I can hold my breathe for 19 minutes..

[@jasonball7300]

PLEASE PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT YOUR THE GUY JESSE

[@executivedecision6141]

No need for that! Kamala Harris will be our next President, and Jesse is endorsing her.

[@nolan3312]

@@executivedecision6141 we want him, not kamala

[@DwightKShrute0]

He actually wasn't that great of a governor. Came in with a $3 million surplus and left with a $4.5 million deficit. He had a hard time working with anybody and didn't get a lot done because of that.

[@executivedecision6141]

@@DwightKShrute0 He wasn't much of an actor either. I recently saw a 1985 episode of HUNTER, in which Jesse Ventura had a small role as a perp at the police station.

[@Jedicake]

WELL WHY DON'T YOU TELL MEEE

[@briansmith9698]

Jesse does not smile all the time like those 2 do never trust someone smiles way to much there up to something Jesse more serious.

[@db5823]

HH would have been a good Gov, too. But, wow, I had forgotten how much NC was an unlikable flip-floppy slimeball -- something that would be much more evident a few years later in his run for the Senate.

[@kevins4222]

Skip would have been the best choice. Jesse was a lot of flash but not much substance.

[@MEPieroni]

What good was asking the question, without context, who they would vote for if they weren’t running? What could a candidate use that question to help inform voters?

[@TheFlamingPike]

Probably a trick question to get people who'd vote for Jesse to choose one of the two other guys.

[@jonfranks6902]

Ventura owned both of these guys. That’s why he won. The debates. 💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ExplisitHipHop]

If he had access to ballots in all 50 states and debated Trump and Harris he would be prez.

[@zealmilenio177]

That Jeer Norman gives Jessie, you can feel the suppressed murderous anger at being exposed. 😂

[@zealmilenio177]

22:14

[@schafer18]

@@zealmilenio177 lol nice

[@TallgrassMeander]

Jesse was the first and last politician my mom (a liberal democrat) and my dad (a conservative republican) agreed on and both voted for

[@nicktaylor1015]

I was 17…I see why Jesse won now.

[@SooHooSamaSito]

Any Minnesota folks here that can tell me if Ventura did what he said he would as governor? Just curious.

[@minutiaminute]

His big accomplishment was getting the light rail funded. And arguing with college students. He's pretty civil here, but he had a pretty bad temper with people who criticized him.

[@SooHooSamaSito]

@@minutiaminute Thank you.

[@jimbrewer5048]

He gave all citizens a check back from a surplus. No parameters everybody who paid taxes got money. That rarely happens in any state

[@chrisschei5597]

@@jimbrewer5048 jesse checks!

[@johnmoe7845]

Yes, he gave the surplus back. We called them ‘Jesse checks’. I remember my parents being very happy. Every other governor, including Tim Walz, has not.

[@markazizian8142]

Why when I watch this do I think of the movie Fargo 😂😂😂

[@ExplisitHipHop]

Ventura fans..on my channel i sampled Jesse twice in 1 song. Album "Sleep Later"(2013) and song "Still Here" (see if you can recodnize the 2 samples)

[@stormwooten1606]

Norm Coleman lost to a TV wrestler and a comedian