JESSE VENTURA CLONE THROWS HAT IN RING

JESSE VENTURA CLONE THROWS HAT IN RING

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Today is not only George W. Bush's first business day at the White House, it's also the first day on the job for the world's first Jesse Ventura impersonator. After years of being mistaken for the former-wrestler- turned-politician, 42-year-old salesman Richard Carmichael of Los Angeles has just quit his day job to impersonate Ventura professionally. The 6-foot, 5-inch, 275-pound man calls himself "Jesse Ventuna" and admits it hasn't been easy familiarizing himself with both Ventura's political platform and his bizarre dressing habits Carmichael claims he looks so much like Ventura that Al Gore's Secret Service agents thought he was the real thing during last summer's Democratic Convention.