After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.
Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.
Donald Trump is finding out what I found out: when you run for office, you are not allowed to tell a joke.
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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