View from the ‘Bridge

On November 3rd, 1998, I stood in a hotel ballroom in downtown Minneapolis with hundreds of other Democrats, hoping to celebrate the election of Hubert Humphrey III (not the VP, his son) to the Governorship of Minnesota. Even at the age of 17 and still to young to vote, I had poured so much sweat into Humphrey’s campaign, hoping to ensure his victory over the Republican Norm Coleman who I despised with a passion. As the major party candidates, of course, most media attention during the campaign had focused on Humphrey and Coleman, while the Reform Party candidate and former WWF wrestler Jesse Ventura remained relegated to colorful sideshow status.
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