Jesse can't take the heat

When push came to shove, Jesse Ventura decided to run from the ring.
The wrestler turned talk show host turned part-time governor of Minnesota says he won't run for office again. His heart isn't in it.
Truth be told, Jesse turned out to be a big crybaby who couldn't take criticism from the statehouse press corps that he labeled "jackals."
His announcement that he won't run comes just as the press was glomming onto a story that no reporter could resist.
It seems that Jesse, who billed himself as a man of the people and who liked to pretend that he didn't want any kind of special treatment, had raised a whelp who turned the governor's mansion into party central for his twenty-something pals.
The state patrol took to carding the guests of Tyrel Ventura, 21, and calling cabs for those who were obviously too drunk to drive. The staff at the governor's mansion had to clean up after the parties -- which were held not in the second-floor private quarters of the mansion, but in historic downstairs rooms that were open to the public during the day.
One housekeeper who shooed out two of Tyrel's guests who were sleeping in the family room one morning so she could clean was berated in a letter from first lady Terry Ventura for being rude.
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An imposter stayed at the mansion for several weeks as an honored guest because he had passed himself off to the family as a brother of a former star on the television show "Home Improvement." The staff was instructed to treat him as family and did. He lived in a guest room, ate the taxpayers' food and was chauffeured by state patrolmen, all because he'd convinced Tyrel that he could enhance the younger Ventura's budding Hollywood connections.
Gov. Ventura's reaction? He attacked the press for invading his family's privacy and said that he'd probably done worse when he was his son's age.
Ventura found it easy to run the state and send tax refunds that he dubbed "Jesse Checks" to Minnesotans when times were good. But when the good times stopped rolling, when the budget surpluses turned to a budget deficit, when his approval numbers fell below 30 percent in a statewide poll, when the heat started rising in the kitchen, Ventura got out.
As a politician, Ventura was a very good wrestler, which is to say about 90 percent bluster, 10 percent sweat.