Reply With QuoteFormer Minnesota governor says he won't vote in presidential election
Thursday September 23, 2004
URBANA, Ill. (AP) Jesse Ventura says he'll take a pass on the voting booth in November.
The former governor of Minnesota told an audience at the University of Illinois in Urbana Wednesday that he won't vote in the presidential election because he doesn't like Democrat John Kerry or President George W. Bush.
``Look at the position I'm in,'' said Ventura, who served as Minnesota governor from 1999-2003. ``If I vote for John Kerry, I'm going to get my taxes raised.''
Bush won't get his vote because of the president's positions on social issues, including his opposition to gay marriage and stem-cell research, Ventura said.
``It scares me when a president says he won't support stem-cell research because it goes against God,'' Ventura said. ``I have news for you. If you're waiting for God to cure Alzheimer's, then we are going to be waiting a long time.''
Ventura, wearing a T-shirt and a bandanna on his head and sporting a braided, black beard, was a guest of the university's Illini Union Board. He spoke to about 1,200 students.
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