Question 3: To what extent do you intend to support investment in maintaining Minnesota’s highway system and expanding its mass transit system given the age of the state’s highway system, population and business growth, and the mass transit needs of an aging and dispersed population?

VENTURA Rebuttal for Question 3

To hear most of the candidates for Governor tell it, 
Minnesota's highways are in bad shape and our 
transit systems are: horrible, (Dayton) dangerous, 
products of a conspiracy to cause traffic jams (Borrell), 
among the worst funded, least adequate transportation 
systems in the nation (Freeman), neglected, and 
lacking vision (Mondale) deteriorating and inadequate 
(Marty), and short-changed (Quist). 

Sounds like we have a problem. The main problem 
is that Minnesota lacks a comprehensive 
transportation plan. As Governor, I would make 
sure we had one. 

A couple of candidates said urban sprawl is part 
of the transportation problem. They make a good 
point. But is transportation part of a comprehensive 
urban plan, or is urban sprawl addressed as part of 
a statewide transportation plan?

Most career politicians will immediately think of 
the affected interest groups in answering this question. 
I am not a career politician. It will be much easier for 
me to put the best interests of the State as a whole first. 

The career politicians are pretty well locked in to 
their support bases. I am the people's candidate. 
And as such, I will be better able to produce a 
comprehensive transportation plan that works for all 
the people, not just the special interests.

Jesse Ventura