Jason Plummer Wants To Be President When He Grows Up

" When Jason Plummer grows up, he wants to be president. Actually, he wanted to be lieutenant governor first, but he couldn’t get that job, so now he’s running for Congress from a district in southwestern Illinois.

During his campaign, Plummer visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., and indulged in a little boyish fantasy. The young lumber heir posed for photos sitting at a desk in a mock Oval Office, and standing in the door of a model Air Force One with his arms raised in the “V for Victory” salute. The photos were originally posted on Plummer’s Facebook, but have been taken down. They were distributed to reporters by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which says they “show him playing at being president in the Oval Office and on Air Force One.”

Plummer is running against William Enyart, a 62-year-old former Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard. Obviously, the DCCC is trying to make the point that the 30-year-old Plummer is immature by comparison. They have a lot of work to do. The most recent poll, conducted Aug. 1-2 by Public Opinion Strategies, showed Plummer with a 45 percent-28 percent lead, and a 72-26 advantage in name recognition. However, Roll Call says the race to replace Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, is a tossup. "

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