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| | Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education |
 | | overnor Jesse Ventura -- the ex-pro wrestler who stunned the nation with his victory for governor of Minnesota in 1998, may be the most libertarian of all governors. | | | Ventura managed to turn out the more libertarian-minded younger voters, as well as those who usually don't vote. | | | Incidentally, after the elections the head of the World Wrestling Federation was on the "Today Show." We don't have the exact transcript, but when asked "Is Jesse Ventura really capable of governing the people of Minnesota?" the WWF head shot back something like: "In America we govern ourselves. |
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| | NHextra: Jesse Ventura |
| | Ventura has also proposed that the law preventing him from carrying a concealed weapon in the Minnesota State House be changed. | | | He would like to pay his wife $25,000 a year, arguing that the salary would help make up for lose of the horse-breeding business she gave up to be the first lady of Minnesota. | | | However, there are no African-American appointees, a point noted by a group of black ministers who visited the Capitol and delivered a letter of dissatisfaction to the governor's staff. |
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| | Biography for Jesse Ventura |
| | In November 1990, professional wrestler turned actor Jesse Ventura was elected to a four-year term as mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis with a population of around 56,000. | | | In November 1998, Ventura, as a member of the Reform Party, was elected Governor of Minnesota. | | | Jesse served one year term and did not run for a second term. |
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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / The Body politic |
| | Were he single, Ventura says today, he would have run for office again and "stuck it down their throats," as he colorfully puts it. | | | He notes that a trade-mission trip he led to China was ignored by the Minnesota press corps; as soon as he returned, the story broke that his son had been throwing underage-drinking parties in the governor's mansion. | | | At Harvard's Lowell House, visiting fellow Jesse Ventura teaches a weekly seminar on third-party politics. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/25/the_body_politic
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| | AskMen.com - Jesse Ventura |
| | Presently the Governor of Minnesota, Jesse is an outspoken individual and it's his candidness that has made him flourish in everything he does. | | | Initially known as Jesse "The Body" Ventura in his heyday as a wrestler, Jesse has opted for a more refined look ever since he became the governor of Minnesota. | | | Growing up, he attended Roosevelt High School and then moved on to North Hennepin Community College, where he enrolled in as many varying courses as he could. |
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| | Online NewsHour: Jesse "The Governor" Ventura - February 14, 2000 |
| | But Ventura's first budget contained plenty that Democrats have long sought: A new light rail system in the twin cities, more money for public schools, and a rejection of vouchers that would allow children to attend private schools, an idea championed by Ventura's Republican predecessor. | | | JESSE VENTURA: And the American dream lives on in Minnesota. | | | He won praise for enlisting advisors and a cabinet of well- regarded leaders from the Democratic, Republican, and his own reform party. |
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| | Scott's Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura Page |
| | Jesse Ventura has announced he will not seek re-election in the 2002 Minnesota Governor's race. | | | Jesse "The Body" returns for the Inauguration Party Jan. 16! | | | After he was honorably discharged, he attended Hennepin Community College before starting his career as a professional wrestler. |
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| | Salon Newsreal Body slam |
| | One political leader who takes Ventura seriously and respectfully is Paul Wellstone, the senior senator from Minnesota, who has also run and won two populist campaigns for office. | | | BY MICAH L. ven Jesse Ventura, the Navy Seal and professional wrestler-turned-talk radio host, small-town mayor and now, Minnesota's governor-elect, seemed at an uncharacteristic loss for words when asked to explain his stunning victory. | | | Jesse Ventura turned out turned-off voters on Election Day, and upended the nation's political elite |
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| | Former Wrestler's Campaign Got a Boost From the Internet |
| | esse Ventura, best known for his career as a professional wrestler, was elected Governor of Minnesota on Tuesday in an upset that was one of the biggest surprises of the election -- a victory that some attribute to effective use of the Internet as a tool for mobilizing volunteers and voters. | | | Ventura won by 3 percentage points over Norm Coleman, the Republican Mayor of St. Paul. | | | Ventura brought out young voters in droves in an election with a 61 percent turnout -- well above the national rate of 37 percent. |
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| | Topic: Jesse Ventura |
| | Last November, Jesse Ventura ran on the Reform Party ticket and won a three-way race for governor of Minnesota with 37 percent of the vote, soundly defeating Democratic Attorney General Hubert "Skip" Humphrey III and Republican candidate Norm Coleman. | | | Jesse Ventura may never fit in a political pigeon hole, but his first three weeks as governor reveal a populist impulse that's closer to the DFL Party than many Capitol leaders expected. | | | In January, Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of Minnesota in the most refreshingly déclassé inauguration since 1829, when Andrew Jackson's supporters wheeled a giant cheese into Washington, D.C., as part of the celebration. |
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| | Jesse "The Body" Ventura plays the spoiler in Minnesota gov. race - October 23, 1998 |
| | Now that the two major party candidates are paying attention to Ventura they're vying to attract his supporters, arguing that the wrestling ring is no training ground for the state capitol where the political wrestling is very real | | | ST.PAUL, Minnesota (October 27) -- If Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic Hubert H."Skip" Humphrey III thought their race for the Minnesota governor's seat would be a traditional two party contest, they were sadly mistaken. | | | Farmhand saw suspect with murdered state senator, heard 'pop' |
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/10/27/mn.gov
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| | Salon Newsreal Jesse Ventura Inc. |
| | What exactly may fall under this category is unclear to both the state board and Ventura for Minnesota, though get-out-the-vote events in schools are one possibility. | | | She wound up in a legal headlock, when a company called Ventura for Minnesota Inc. sent a cease-and-desist order to stop her from selling the cards, claiming "Governor Ventura and his assigns... | | | The merchandising of Minnesota's governor, which helped finance his Reform Party campaign, hardly abated after the election, despite early promises from Ventura that the cashing-in would subside after he took office. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Jesse Ventura eyes White House run in 2008 |
| | Ventura, 52, shocked the political establishment in 1998 when he used his message of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism — and his sizable personality — to defeat two better-known and better-funded candidates to become the first third-party governor of Minnesota. | | | (AP) — Refreshed from a semester as a visiting professor at Harvard University, former pro wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he's considering an independent run for the White House in 2008, although he acknowledges that being leader of the free world might be too confining for him. | | | Ventura has not made a firm decision on a presidential run. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-04-15-ventura-white-house_x.htm
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| | Former wrestler takes stunning win in Minnesota - November 3, 1998 |
| | Many voters were drawn to Ventura's off-the-cuff wit and his push for quality education across the state, including a return to more neighborhood schools. | | | He and his family spent the final days of the campaign on an RV tour from St. Paul to southern Minnesota and the Iron Range. | | | Coleman said abortions should be available only in case of rape, incest or if the mother's life was in danger. |
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/governors/minnesota
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| | Mr. T vs. Jesse Ventura @ WWWF Grudge Match |
| | But Minnesota, the State which has as it's constitutional preamble "Attention, Kmart Shoppers,"...the State that contains Lake Wobegone...the State whose chief exports are taconite, moose droppings and recent high school graduates desperate to live anywhere else...I mean, that's just plain sad. | | | So this match is between an actor and a governor for supreme dominance. | | | Unless we can gain the aid of Senator Death in this matter, the result would be too terrible to imagine. |
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| | Salon News Jesse Ventura's gaffe riot |
| | And Ventura has a pattern of gaffes that predates his introduction to a national political audience last November, when voters defied the pundits and elected him governor. | | | He got in some trouble during the campaign for suggesting that maybe prostitution should be decriminalized, but most of his shoot-from-the-lip honesty that voters did see came across as refreshing. | | | As mayor of Brooklyn Park, he applied for a license to carry around a loaded concealed weapon, though he didn't qualify for one under state law so the police chief had to turn him down. |
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| | Navy SEALs.com - Famous Navy Seals Jesse Ventura |
| | Ventura's role as the Governor of Minnesota is the latest aspect of a lifetime spent serving the public in such various ways. | | | In eight days, Gov. Jesse Ventura will leave office as the best-known Minnesotan in the world, after a riotous four years of controversy, publicity-seeking, outside moneymaking, tripartisan gridlock and, yes, governance... | | | Jesse Ventura joined the Navy after high school and served for six years — four on active duty, two in the Reserves — and is a Vietnam veteran. |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Jesse Ventura |
| | With his surprise election as Governor of Minnesota in 1998&; former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura (whose real name is James Janos) captured the attention of the nation. | | | Ventura acted respectably in roles in Predator (1987), The Running Man (1987), and Batman and Robin (1997). | | | Representing the Reform Party&; Ventura parlayed his gift for gab, his celebrity status, and public disgust with "politics as normal" to become an instant icon. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Without saying a word, Ventura gets behind Kerry |
| | He served one term as Minnesota's governor, then declined to run for a second in 2002, citing media intrusion into his family's life. | | | A spokesman for Minnesota's Republican Party said he didn't have an immediate comment. | | | Bush, he said then, wouldn't get his vote because of the president's positions on social issues, including his opposition to gay marriage and stem cell research. |
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| | Jesse Ventura's America |
| | VENTURA: I would come back and say the gateway drug is tobacco. | | | RILEY: Alcohol and tobacco do terrible damage to our society. | | | VENTURA: Don't tell me you're a good Republican... |
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| | USA WEEKEND Magazine |
| | As he becomes Minnesota's governor, maverick Jesse Ventura plans to change politics - or else. | | | "His strength is that he'll look at things with a fresh eye." D.J. Leary, editor of the newsletter Politics in Minnesota, says that citizens are upbeat about their new governor but that he has fears about Ventura's tenure. | | | Ventura, of course, is "this guy," a 6-foot-4, 250-pound former pro wrestler who unnerved the establishment with his victory in November. |
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| | American Atheist Magazine - Jesse Ventura |
| | And atheists finally have a leading political figure who isn't afraid to use the "A-word," and is an outspoken defender of the separation of church and state. | | | Some are demanding that he resign from his office. | | | America finally may have a politician who is able to speak his mind honestly, and not be captive to spin-doctors and poll watchers. |
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| | Star Seeker Actors/Actresses: Jesse Ventura |
| | CNN - Ventura body slams rivals for Minnesota governorship - November 3, 1998 | | | CNN - Ventura becomes Minnesota's governor - January 4, 1999 | | | CNN - Minnesotans celebrate Gov. Ventura at inaugural bash - January 17, 1999 |
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| | Gov. Jesse Ventura Portrait Unveiling |
| | Blended into the landscape behind him are images of an undeveloped, wild Minnesota to his left, and to his right the Capitol building, the Minneapolis skyline, a bridge spanning the Mississippi River, a lush Minnesota golf course and a light-rail train. | | | Ventura is pictured standing proudly over a landscape filled with symbols of Minnesota and important aspects of his life and career. | | | The governor& right hand rests on a figure representing “The Thinker,” an image used in his campaign for office that contrasted his reputation as “Jesse, the Body,” with “Jesse, the Thinker.” |
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| | Jesse Ventura Body Slams Gay Marriage Amendment (ChicagoPride.com) |
| | The onetime wrestler and former Gov. of Minnesota accused state representatives of copping out in their desire to put the gay marriage issue to voters. | | | Ventura is currently a fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics. | | | "Love is bigger than government," said Ventura, a one-term governor elected on the Reform Party ticket. |
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| | Random House Authors Jesse Ventura |
| | Jesse Ventura the Governor of Minnesota, lives with his wife and their teenaged son and daughter in Saint Paul. | | | And now that this body-slamming, straight-talking, charismatic hero is masterminding Minnesota's gubernatorial decisions, you'd better start calling him "Jesse, the... | | | When he hosted his hard-hitting KFAN radio talk show, he became "Jesse, the Mouth." |
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| | Clift: Jesse Ventura’s Latest Venture - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com |
| | As a newly inaugurated governor, Ventura had sat in the front row when Gates spoke in Minneapolis for Martin Luther King Day. | | | I'm a kid from Queens, I started as a secretary, barely went to college and I'm at Harvard speaking to a group of students that includes the former governor of Minnesota, who is the high priest of third-party politics. | | | The office I've been assigned for an afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics is next to Ventura's, where I hear him regaling a constant stream of wide-eyed students with tales from his wrestling days mixed in with his take on politics. |
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| | Review: Rubel Shelly - FAX of Life - Jesse Ventura |
| | A former Navy SEAL who worked as a bouncer before becoming a "bad boy" in professional wrestling, Ventura was elected to be governor of Minnesota. | | | Jesse didn't become Jesse because he was elected; he was elected because he was Jesse. | | | He defeated two of that state's biggest political names and had the last laugh after being dismissed as "irrelevant" in the campaign by the man who wound up second to him in the gubernatorial race. |
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| | Independence Party of Minnesota Home |
| | The writer has bought into the myth that the big parties have a monopoly on ideas, votes and the right to hold office. | | | In a Feb. 15 letter in the Star Tribune, an Eagan resident asks whether Hutchinson is running “against the DFL and for Gov. (Tim) Pawlenty’s reelection” and goes on to say Hutchinson should admit he has “no chance to become governor as a third-party candidate not named Jesse Ventura.” |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Jesse Ventura: Ultimate Dilettante |
| | Dean Barkley who he appointeed to the Senate was a frequent guest. | | | Jesse Ventura is in talks with MSNBC about hosting his own political chatfest after he leaves office in January. | | | The governor also has a national following, both from his days as a pro wrestler and as a larger-than-life political figure. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Lights dim on Jesse Ventura's MSNBC show |
| | Ventura's phone number is unlisted, and he has refused interviews with local reporters since leaving the governor's office in January. | | | Ventura had a weekly radio show during his four years as governor and was a television commentator for the XFL, an alternative football league that folded after airing for one season on NBC. | | | Sorenson said Ventura will continue to serve as a political commentator for MSNBC during the 2004 campaign season. |
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| | MPR: Ventura criticizes use of National Guard in Iraq |
| | Emphasizing that he is an independent, not a Republican or Democrat, Ventura said the National Guard was designed to protect the homeland, not fight overseas. | | | Ventura is serving as an advisory board member for a new group called Operation Truth, a nonprofit organization set up "to give voice to troops who served in Iraq." | | | Paul, Minn. — (AP) - Former Gov. Jesse Ventura, who during his time in office diligently avoided commenting on military decisions, joined the fray over the war in Iraq on Tuesday. |
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| | MSNBC on Ventura Highway -- Newsday.com |
| | Ventura is a world-class media crank who held a noisy running battle with TV and newspaper reporters during his four years as governor. | | | Wodele says Ventura was particularly irritated by media inquiries into his private life. | | | If his show flops, there's no plan B, C, D or E. There are no dancing bears waiting to take his place. |
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| | Jesse Ventura |
| | Wrestlemania (1985) (V) (as Jesse 'The Body' Ventura).... | | | Wrestlemania III (1987) (V) (as Jesse 'The Body' Ventura).... | | | Do you think he will try acting again? |
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| | Media Man |
| | Ventura by his ex boss, Vince McMahon, promoter of the WWE, and Arnie having the world's best political minds in his ear, and being married to Maria Shriver, a "product" of the Reagan dynasty. | | | Jesse Ventura, formally known as "The Body", has seemingly done it all in life; Navy Seal, Actor, Wrestler, Governor, but now it appears he has a new role to play - advisor to who many are picking as the next Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. | | | One gets the feeling that Arnie and Jesse were were schooled for politics. |
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| | How candid is Jesse Ventura, really? |
| | Wodele: If you travel with the governor and spend any amount of time with him, he is very forthcoming and accurate in terms of his relationship with the United States Navy. | | | Cursor extensively researched what the Governor has said on the record about his Navy SEAL past, and found that Wodele may be the only person he has ever corrected. | | | fter ex-Navy SEAL officer Bill Salisbury challenged Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura's SEAL credentials in a December 2nd cover story in the San Diego Reader, available online at http://www.cursor.org/, the Governor's office confirmed that Ventura had been a member of an Underwater Demolition Team (UDT), and not an elite Navy SEAL. |
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| | Jesse Ventura: SEAL or UDT? |
| | Was Jesse for real or was he one of those politicians who sometimes fudge their military affiliation with elite units? | | | Jesse's reference to skivvies also suggested he had pulled liberty in Olongapo, aka Po Town: the legendary city in the Philippines that had offered fleshly delights to generations of sailors who passed through the U.S. Navy base at Subic Bay until the base closed a few years ago. | | | But Jesse made a comment during the interview that somewhat eased my doubts about his bona fides. |
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| | Voters 4 Ventura - Jesse Ventura for President in 2008! |
| | But he wants to make the decision, if he will run or not, as soon as possible. | | | Voters 4 Ventura - Jesse Ventura for President in 2008! | | | "No party, no nothing," Jesse told the news service, adding that his campaign message would be, "Elect someone who truly is not controlled by special-interest money. |
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| | WCCO-TV - Minnesota's Breaking News, Video, Weather, Traffic and Sports: Jesse Ventura Slings Online Betting |
| | While in office, Ventura was cool to proposals to expand casino gambling in Minnesota, but he backed legislation that would have legalized sports betting. | | | Ventura, who left office in 2003 after a single term, will appear in radio and print ads that were to debut on Wednesday. | | | Last year, Ventura appeared in a TV commercial on behalf of a California Indian tribe fighting a plan that would have made them turn over more money to the state. |
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| | Amazon.com: Jesse Ventura: Books: Daniel Cohen |
| | The author develops a character beyond the loud-mouthed showman by addressing Ventura's time in the military as a Navy Seal, his marriage and family life, his radio talk-show persona, his attempts at acting, and his surprisingly sensible approach to public service. | | | For example, he speculates about what Ventura was like as a kid. | | | Throughout, the author takes time to explain certain points in history, such as opposition to the Vietnam War, staged events in pro-wrestling strategy, and the rise and change in the Reform Party. |
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| | Channel4000.com - News - Report: More Delays Plague Ventura's Show |
| | Four months after former Gov. Jesse Ventura ended speculation of what he would do after leaving office by announcing a high-profile deal for his own primetime TV show on MSNBC he still has no permanent presence on the air. | | | Lambert concluded in his column that, if Ventura's show was ready for primetime that the slumping MSNBC would have it on the air. | | | The newspaper interviewed MSNBC president Erik Sorenson, who said Ventura is insisting on a new type of show, one that hasn't been on the air before, and that the network is having to invent the new format. |
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| | World Of The Strange Forums-viewtopic-Jesse Ventura Talks UFOs |
| | Ventura's live weekly radio show, broadcast from the Minnesota Zoo. | | | Ventura said the federal government should disclose whatever it knows about | | | The comments came in reaction to a question from an audience member during |
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http://www.worldofthestrange.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4271
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| | Governor Jesse Ventura Troubled By Official 9/11 Story |
| | VENTURA: He was flying in a private jet. | | | These comments were made on air last year but received scant attention even in the alternative media. | | | In light of all the other credible whistleblowers coming forward and exclaiming their disbelief about the official explanation behind 9/11, I thought it timely to reprint comments made in a similar vein by former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. |
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/010705venturatroubled.htm
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| | Jesse Ventura on the Issues |
| | Former Secretary of Labor & candidate for MA Governor | | | $600 “Jesse Checks” tax rebate to every taxpayer. | | | $600 “Jesse Checks” tax rebate to every taxpayer: |
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