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PI Original
by Matthew Blake
12:20pm
Mon Nov 14, 2011

SW Illinois’ Post-Costello Plan

Politics

U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello, a Democrat, said in October that he would retire next year after 24 years in Congress. Since Costello’s southwest Illinois district is socially conservative, Republicans smell an opportunity worth spending national GOP money on.

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:32am
Fri Feb 26, 2010
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Meet The Bumbling GOP Gubernatorial Ticket

Election 2010

The Democrats haven't chosen a lieutenant governor nominee just yet, but their incomplete ticket already seems stronger than the GOP's slate.

Quick Hit
by Josh Kalven
10:54am
Mon Feb 15, 2010

"Little Experience Of Any Sort"

In her Sun-Times article yesterday on GOP lieutenant governor nominee Jason Plummer, reporter Kara Spak had this to say about the 27-year-old self-funder: "Plummer has no Springfield experience and little experience of any sort that would prepare him should he have to assume the governor's post." 

You can expect to see that quote on some Democrat mailers this fall.  (More on Plummer's resume inflation here and here.)

Quick Hit
by Josh Kalven
2:01pm
Wed Feb 10, 2010

The Intern Who Would Be King

Today, WBEZ's Justin Kaufman shifts his attention from Scott Lee Cohen to Republican lieutenant governor candidate Jason Plummer and finds that the 27 year-old appears to be exaggerating his public service experience.  The current bio on his campaign websites states that he "[s]erved under U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald and in Washington, DC with the Heritage Foundation."  Turns out he was just an intern to the senator and the conservative think tank.  (He has since joined the Naval Reserves and become a vice-president at his family's lumber company.)  Plummer, by the way, won the GOP primary after borrowing about $1.2 million from himself and his family for the campaign.