Jade Janos gets hitched, and it's political fun with the Andersons

Word has it that a former Minnesota First Daughter, Jade Janos, got married over the summer to Matthew Johnson.

Efforts were unsuccessful to reach former Gov. Jesse Ventura for a comment about his daughter's August wedding. I hear that Ventura looked very proud and was wearing a tux, but I could not discern whether he made any, ah, hairstyle concessions for the big milestone.

Congrats to the newlyweds.

Sympathies extended Like most of us, the people at Bloomington's PACER Center are absolutely heartbroken about the triple tragedy in the life of Oscar-winning singer Jennifer Hudson.

Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, brother Jason Hudson and nephew Julian King were slain in Chicago, the hometown of the "American Idol" alum.

PACER staffers interacted with Hudson in 2007 when she headlined the annual gala for the center that helps children with disabilities.

"We are so very, very sorry for Jennifer Hudson and her family," said Paula Goldberg, exec director. "We are sending a card and donations in honor of her family. She was so wonderful when she was here, such a fine human being. We wish we could do more to ease her pain and grief. Our thoughts and prayers are with her."

Personality-wise, the editor of Mpls.St.Paul mag, Brian Anderson, has been playing possum.

A side of Anderson I've never seen is on video at www.mspmag.com/redemption. Pieces on the mag ed's fictitious run for mayor of Minneapolis are being done by his son David Anderson, who is based in L.A. Mayor R.T. Rybak plays along in a cameo that steals the show.

After hearing about the video, I e-mailed Anderson the Lesser to ask whether this was an attempt to imbue his dad with a personality. "Personality?" Lesser replied. "The guy's got too much personality if you ask me. We have to rein him in at most family dinners by dropping Ritalin in his drink." Ooooh, where's that video? So why do I think of Anderson the Greater as boring and stuffy? "You just see me at formal events," said Greater. "He just said, Be yourself, Dad. I take direction from my handlers."

So apparently does Mayor Rybak. "We had 15 minutes; I said, 'This is what needs to happen. Brian's going to come in ...' and R.T. just ran with it," said Lesser.

As the Greater stormed into the mayor's office, R.T. was sounding positively presidential in a phone call: "Cut $15 million ... do it by tomorrow."

Shakeup at WLTE-FM Radio executive Mary Niemeyer did not respond to my request for her to tell me what she could about the disappearance of the WLTE-FM morning show crew.

My guess is that Niemeyer's thinking: Their names are not on the website anymore. Do the math. Either the personnel or the format is being changed, or both.

Reader Gloria Pflager e-mailed that when she called the station, she was told they are "no longer with us." Haven't I recommended that you guys STOP getting emotionally attached to radio talents? KS95 fans can take very little solace in unconfirmed gossip that the Cheryl formerly of "Van & Cheryl" fame is rumored to be going to WLTE. If you miss Teri Knight, go to her gardenbite.com website and say so in an e-mail.

First dibs at T-Rex I didn't realize I was hobnobbing with one of the richest people in America at the opening of Steve Schussler's biggest restaurant yet, T-Rex, at Disney World.

Thanks to YouTube.com (search: "Timeshare Billionaire"), I've seen this small Florida resort under construction, which Jacqueline and David Siegel will call home. It's 90,000 square feet, but he can afford it because Siegel is "King of the American Timeshare Business," according to CNBC.

Schussler owes Siegel big time. Schussler could not get Disney executives to fly to Minnesota to take a look at his T-Rex concept, staged in a Golden Valley warehouse. "So I filled up four 40-foot trucks with dinosaurs and had them driven to Florida; if I'm in their back yard, there is no way they would refuse me. It was a little extreme," Schussler said. "I know that. My friend David Siegel agreed to let me use his conference ballroom at Westgate Lakes as a demonstration space to show Disney my concepts." After 9/11 hit, the dinosaurs wound up spending an additional six months on Siegel's property.

"I'll get David a front-of-the-line pass," Schussler said. "He'll never have to wait in line."