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14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor
AP News ^ | August 12, 2018

Posted on 08/13/2018 6:20:32 PM PDT by SMGFan

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — One of the four Vermont Democrats seeking the party nomination to run for governor in the fall election isn’t old enough to vote, let alone drive. Ethan Sonneborn, 14, of Bristol, met the requirements to be on the primary ballot and is taking his place with the state’s more age-appropriate candidates on the Tuesday primary ballot, to say nothing of numerous candidate forums and debates.

“I think Vermonters should take me seriously because I have practical progressive ideas, and I happen to be 14, not the other way around,” Sonneborn said in a recent televised gubernatorial forum. “I think that my message and my platform transcend age.”

The Vermont Constitution doesn’t have an age requirement for people seeking the state’s highest office beyond having lived in the state for four years before the election. Sonneborn qualifies.

That apparent oversight by the state’s founders more than 225 years ago was enough to encourage the politically precocious teen to collect the signatures needed to place him on the primary ballot.

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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bristol; demagogicparty; ethansonneborn; makeourday; vermont
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1 posted on 08/13/2018 6:20:32 PM PDT by SMGFan
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Yeah, he did this on his own. Someone should kick his ass and teach him about the real world. Oh, and kick his parents ass too.


2 posted on 08/13/2018 6:22:59 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: SMGFan

Their new star, Ms. Occasional-Cortex is the same age mentally as this lad, so why not?


3 posted on 08/13/2018 6:23:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SMGFan

“I have practical progressive ideas”

Oh boy. The Youth are ruined!


4 posted on 08/13/2018 6:23:01 PM PDT by Revel
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To: SMGFan

I hope he gives it a good effort. It wouldn’t surprise me if a 14-year-old could hold his own with adult “progressives.” Several of my children have been informed, articulate conservatives at 14.


5 posted on 08/13/2018 6:23:03 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: SMGFan

I am sure that the little twerp has all the answers...


6 posted on 08/13/2018 6:23:24 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: dljordan
Amen. Smartass needs a whooping.
 
7 posted on 08/13/2018 6:26:06 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: fhayek

He’s a teenager, of course he does. Wouldn’t it be funny if he wins the Democratic primary. Everyone in Vermont, let’s the vote out and help.


8 posted on 08/13/2018 6:27:20 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: SMGFan

the kid’s parents should be working on his weight & save the politics for later.

The kid has not missed a meal in ages from the look of him.


9 posted on 08/13/2018 6:29:22 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Revel

he is still young enough to be disillusioned by progressivism. at 14 he really has no experience to gage the validity of the libral shit that has been put into his head.


10 posted on 08/13/2018 6:30:16 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: SMGFan

Of the four democrats, the kid is probably the least insane.


11 posted on 08/13/2018 6:33:05 PM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Another budding liberal a-hole. Swell


12 posted on 08/13/2018 6:33:16 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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Former utility executive Christine Hallquist says her experience and ideas make her the best choice as Vermont’s next governor, but outside Vermont she’s pitching herself as someone who would, if elected, become the nation’s first transgender governor. There is also James Ehlers, an environmentalist, Brenda Siegel, a dance festival organizer.

Given these choices, I'd go for the dance festival organizer. She's had to do something practical.

13 posted on 08/13/2018 6:37:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: SMGFan
"My message and my platform transcend age."


14 posted on 08/13/2018 6:37:51 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: cyclotic
You are probably right if, for no other reason than he has had the least time to be indoctrinated in the leftist orthodoxy.
15 posted on 08/13/2018 6:38:48 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: SMGFan

I was a Republican by the time I was 14.


16 posted on 08/13/2018 6:41:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Doyle Connor was elected to the Florida Senate when he was 17.


17 posted on 08/13/2018 6:42:33 PM PDT by yarddog
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A one-cell amoeba is more qualified to hold elective office than an DemonRat, whatever their age.


18 posted on 08/13/2018 6:49:16 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

I don’t think VT has a governor’s mansion. Is mommy going to drive him to the State House in Montpelier?


19 posted on 08/13/2018 6:53:34 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: SMGFan

There are a lot of rat idiots in the world - the same mentality that allowed a ship in the UK to be named “Boaty McBoatface” - perhaps enough in Vermont to actually elect this young douche. Would serve them right.


20 posted on 08/13/2018 6:58:26 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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