saw it on Lucciane.com

watching fox news for the festivities.

mondale and coleman are scheduled to begin a debate at the same time.

jesse has good timing, eh?

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

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one lucciane poster mentioned the possibility of coleman being named. wouldn't that be a hoot!

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

I was kinda hoping that Jesse would go out and pick an ordinary person that was non-political. Say a school crossing guard, or a postal employee, maybe even the baker at the grocery store.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

after pointing out the fact that the dems and repubs and the media ignore the other party, the Independents, he named Dean Barkeley, an Independent to the seat.

Fox news immediately switched off Dean and went back to the debate, which by the way refused to admit the Independent runner, whose name I do not know. Is there one?

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3408637.html

Ventura names Barkley to succeed Wellstone Star Tribune

Published Nov. 4, 2002 VENT05

On the eve of the most hotly contested U.S. Senate vote in decades, Gov. Jesse Ventura threatened to throw the election into still more disarray today with the appointment of state planning commissioner Dean Barkley to complete the term of Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash on Oct. 25.

Ventura announced his plans for filling the vacant seat at 10 a.m. -- just as a scheduled debate between Democratic candidate Walter Mondale and Republican hopeful Norm Coleman began.

Barkley would "put the people's interest before the party's interest," in the Senate, Ventura said. He said his announcement had been triggered by the dispute over whether third-party candidates would be allowed in today's broadcast debate.

"Today, three very powerful institutions -- the DFL, the Republican and the media -- are conspiring to limit the hard-earned rights of ordinary citizens to rise up and compete for elected office without having to be a Democrat or a Republican," Ventura said.

Ventura earlier had said he would not appoint an interim senator until after the election on Tuesday.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

Is there enough time between now and late January to get to cause any trouble in DC?

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

well, as of now, before election day, the dems have lost control of the senate. a mere technacality since they are not in session, right?

they will resume session before the holidays, and yes, the dems may not be able to block judge appointments, or so it was said at Lucciane.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

now someone wrote at Lucciane that minnesota law says that the winner of the seat in the election takes the seat immediately because of its being empty at the time even with someone appointed.

So, if Ventura had waited till after the election he couldn't have appointed anyone.

If this is true.

At any rate, it was funny that he did it at the beginning of the debate.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002