Question of the day
Monday, Oct 24, 2011 - Posted by Rich Miller
* From Jason Plummer’s Twitter page…
Today I announced my campaign for Illinois’ 12th CD! I very much appreciate all of your help & support, both in the past and again today.
* From his press release…
His campaign will focus on reining in reckless spending, reform of our tax and regulatory structure, and getting government out of the way of small businesses so the U.S. economy can get moving forward again. Plummer said, “Businesses need to be able to get back to doing what they do best – providing stable jobs for hard working people and quality products and services for consumers. The burdens government has put on our small businesses and workers are crushing this economy and putting people out of work.”
“Our family businesses are blessed to have helped create and maintain over 1,000 jobs in Illinois and surrounding states. We have been creating quality jobs in Illinois for over 30 years, but never have we seen an environment as bad as this,” said Plummer. “The announcement last week that the Illinois unemployment rate reached 10% is further proof that what Washington is doing is not working. I am running for Congress to push for common-sense reforms of the way government operates and to use my business experience to find solutions for our stagnant economic growth.”
The 12th is currently represented by retiring Democratic Congressman Jerry Costello. One Democrat may announce soon…
Madison County Chief Judge Ann Callis is expected to jump into the race in the coming days, a top party official confirmed this morning.
If and when Callis announces, she will be the first prominent Democrat to jump in race since Costello’s surprise retirement announcement earlier this month.
…Adding… Democrat Chris Miller of Carbondale is also considering a bid. Miller, no relation, served 7 years in the Army and did two tours of Iraq. He was featured in a 2010 VoteVets TV ad called “Tough.”
* The Question: What are your recommendations for Plummer’s new campaign slogan?
- Solomon - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 12:56 pm:
Given the Republican players in the race, it’ll be a fun one to watch.
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 12:57 pm:
Vote for me and I’ll get my own Wikipedia page!
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 12:59 pm:
Be the 1000th person to “friend” me on Facebook and win a free keg party at the Edwardsville Hooters!
- Commonsense in Illinois - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:02 pm:
What? Nixon had Plummers?
- Glee - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:07 pm:
Tuh Tuh Tuh Today Junior!
- Swing Vote - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:13 pm:
Rich Parents for Everybody!
- MrJM - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:14 pm:
Children are the Future
– MrJM
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:14 pm:
“Jason Plummer - I will match my qualifications against anyone”
“Jason Plummer - An Open Book, Until You Want to Read It”
“Jason Pluumer … I’m Tall”
“Jason Plummer - Distracting Illinois for Oberweis.”
“Jason Plummer - Because Border Counties Demand It”
“Jason Plummer - Making Chicago Tonight ‘Must-See’ TV again”
“Plummer 2012 - Taking that DC Visit to the ‘N’th degress”
“Plummer 2012 - Dad wants me out of the basement - STAT!”
“Plummer 2012 - Dad is giving you one more chance to like me”
“Jason Plummer - Cake and Ice Cream, win or lose!”
- Left Out - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:15 pm:
A 2″x4″ in every pot!
- Raising Kane - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:21 pm:
Uh….UH….ah…umm…uh
- MKA1985 - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:25 pm:
Vote for me: I’ll … uh … I’ll … … … what was … … tax breaks. Thank you goodnight!
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:25 pm:
“Plummer 2012 - Endorsed by the U of I Student Council, the U of I Fraternity System, and Kam’s Thursday Night Softball Team”
“Plummer 2012 - Don’t look at my campaign disclosures, it IS my money, honest”
“Jason Plummer - I know where to get a cheap District Office”
“Plummer 2012 - the only thing I am hiding this time is my resume’ …”
Plummer 2012 - It’s only two years, what can it hurt?”
“Plummer 2012 - Congress needs a new Social Chairman”
“Jason Plummer - Making Oswego Willy Proud One Quote at a Time”
- Montrose - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:27 pm:
Swing Vote wins. Well done.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:28 pm:
“Jason Plummer - I know I have a slogan, I just can’t remember it”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:29 pm:
“Plummer 2012 - Chicago isn’t in this district, right?”
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:30 pm:
“Dude,………”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:32 pm:
Plummer 2012 - The Training Wheels are Off This Time!”
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:37 pm:
Plummer 2012-Because Oberweis May Give Up at Some Point!
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:38 pm:
Plummer for Congress - “Road Trip, Baby!”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:40 pm:
Plummer 2012 - “Not the Ice Cream Rich Kid, the Lumber Rich Kid, duh”
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:42 pm:
Plummer 2012–Taller than Aaron Schock.
Plummer 2012–Younger than Aaron Schock
Plummer 2012–
I really want to continue on this whole Schock schtick, but it would be inappropriate for younger or more sensitive viewers.
- Coach - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:46 pm:
You ready to suck the garbage from the federal government’s pipes? You need a Plummer!
- Northsider - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:49 pm:
Plummer 2012: Rabble Rouster for the 1%
Plummer 2012: You’ll Get Nothing and Like It!
– Oops, that was the Spaulding Smails campaign. Oh, what the hell; the shoe fits.
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:54 pm:
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former lumberspawn, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac… It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:55 pm:
“Plummer 2012 - Too Kewl to Lose”
“Jason Plummer - 7th Period Lunch’s Favorite Son”
“Plummer 2012 - Aaron Schock Needs a Wing Man!”
“Jason Plummer - Chicks Dig the Roll Call!”
“Plummer 2012 - You Can’t Spell ‘Congressman’ Without J-A-S-O-N …uh wait …”
- Northsider - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:56 pm:
IrishPirate @ 1:54: Bhuel bhí!
- Cincinnatus - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:57 pm:
Plummer - A Lead Pipe Cinch
- walkinfool - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 1:59 pm:
Jason Plummer: Next stop Village Board!
- x ace - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:05 pm:
“Flush The Judge” : VOTE PLUMMER
( My View However is If She Runs He will be sorting nails forever. - Judge Callis far more qualified and capable. )
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:06 pm:
“Plummer 2012 - Dad got me the new suits for something ..”
“Jason Plummer - This time, it’s not an Intership”
“Plummer 2012 - ‘Tommy Boy for Congress’ Without David Spade”
- Jake From Elwood - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:08 pm:
“Plummer 2012: Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
- 44 - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:11 pm:
“…And if Pat Quinn you can’t defeat, daddy’s gonna buy you a Congressional seat. And if…”
- VanillaMan - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:11 pm:
Plummer: From the Valley of the Jolly - Ho Ho Ho - Lumbering Giant!
Plummer: Blissfully Unaware
Plummer: Our Baby!
Jason Plummer: “I want to be a Congressman Lumberjack! I cut down tree. I skip and jump. I like to press wild flowers.”
- Pot calling kettle - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:21 pm:
“I’ll be focused on representing you! (At least until I’m old enough to drink.)”
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:31 pm:
Plummer 2012–Taller Than Lincoln!
Plummer 2012–Lincoln Was Born in a Log Cabin. My dad supplies the logs!
- Spliff - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:32 pm:
Chris Miller could be an interesting candidate in that race if he can raise the money.
- Senator Clay Davis - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:36 pm:
Jason Plummer: Who is this guy? Didn’t he run with…who was THAT guy?
Plummer 2012: The Ax Man to Take On the Tax Man
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:56 pm:
“Plummer 2012 - My Allowance is More, But I Will Sacrifice for You”
“Jason Plummer - MY SEC Filings Tell My Story…”
“Jason Plummer - Congress Needs Another Genetics Lotto Winner!”
- Aldyth - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 2:58 pm:
The congressional cool kid’s table needs me.
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 3:06 pm:
Plummer 2012–Toga, Toga, Toga…….
- Just Sayin' - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 3:11 pm:
If Ann Callis gets into this race, Jason Plummer (and any other Republican candidate in the 12 C.D.) is done. It looks like heh chances of Costello’s seat staying Democratic just increased exponentially.
- parmageddon - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 3:21 pm:
Oberweis for the Facebook Generation!!!!!
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 3:28 pm:
“Jason Plummer - Pet the Bunnies & Live Off the Fat of the Land”
- Downstate Illinois - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 3:35 pm:
Just Sayin’,
The MetroEast courts system has a reputation down here as being the sleaziest this side of Cook County.
I know nothing of Callis, but knowing what it takes to become a judge up there it’s not a mark in her favor.
Plus she will have to run on Obama’s record and explain why she wants Nancy Pelosi returned as Speaker of the House.
- Just Sayin' - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 4:09 pm:
Ann Callis has a well-earned reputation as having effectively addressed the issues in Madison County’s courts while she’s been chief judge. Even the Civil Justice League, the Chamber of Commerce, and their allies have been supportive and complimentary of Callis’ efforts.
- Oh My - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 4:19 pm:
Jason can say honestly “I’ve never had a job so I would like Washington and better yet Washington would like me” Yea, let’s send someone that has not worked a day in his life to Washington, on second thought, he would fit in good with all the other losers.
- How Ironic - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 4:43 pm:
Jason Plummer “Working Hard To Look Busy”
- just sayin' - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 4:52 pm:
Jason Plummer: Now Bill Brady Free
- just sayin' - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 4:58 pm:
Jason Plummer: It was that other guy who didn’t think we were gassing pets fast enough
Jason Plummer: I suck marginally less than the other Republicans running
Jason Plummer: No you still can’t see my tax returns
- k3_Spfld_Chi - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 5:09 pm:
All of the comments regarding alcohol couldn’t be more off base. I went to UIUC with Plummer and he was all akward and HE DIDN’T DRINK. Yes, he was that akward. This was prior to dropping out of Army ROTC because the Navy ROTC program was easier.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 5:13 pm:
“Plummer for Congress - It’s not just a job, It’s my FIRST job”
- East Sider - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 5:14 pm:
I see Oswego Willy still hasn’t grown up and is still obsessed with Jason Plummer. Kinda scary actually.
If anyone thinks that Ann Callis, the chief judge presiding over the Judicial Hell Hole has made any reforms down here, then you’re out of your mind. She’s also much too liberal for that district. You have a businessman who is the son of one of the biggest private sector job creators in Southern Illinois vs. the chief judge of the Judicial Hell Hole, the daughter of one of the sleaziest, blood sucking trial lawyers in the metro east.
- mokenavince - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 6:04 pm:
If Plummer gets elected we should all head for the
exits, we are cooked.
- Anonymous - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 6:22 pm:
“A better orator than Lurch”
“Vote for me or a staplegun to the face”
- Anonymous - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 6:24 pm:
“That’s Plummer, not Vorhees!”
- IrishPirate - Monday, Oct 24, 11 @ 6:27 pm:
Plummer 2012–I put the Zero in Twenty Twelve
Plummer 2012–No Conflicts of Interest. I am not interested in anything.
Plummer 2012–Nepotism ain’t just for the Madigans and Daleys. It’s for rich kids like me and my hero George W Bush.
- Jimbo - Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 1:06 am:
Plummer 2012: Couldn’t do it in 2010 & Committed to consistency.
- joesixpack - Thursday, Oct 27, 11 @ 8:04 pm:
Not to talk down about Callis, but does she even live in the district? I kinda hate it when politicians do that — run from outside/move in district to run. Turns me off. I wouldn’t vote for her.
She seems to have a better chance right now than this Chris Miller though. She already obviously has better organization. Running for Congress and not understanding campaigns is like driving a car when you’re 12. You’ve seen your mom do it, but when you get behind the wheel you just don’t know what you’re doing. I hope he gets good people behind him to make this work — and not good as in his cousin’s friend Tony who ran for city council once. Actually good. Professional. He probably doesn’t know where to turn though to make that happen.