Most 14-year-old American schoolboys might be fixated on baseball, chasing girls and dodging their homework. Not Ethan Sonneborn. He’s running for governor in Vermont.

The teenager is taking advantage of a quirk in the constitution of the bucolic northeastern state that imposes no age limit on running for governor. Candidates only have to have lived in Vermont for at least four years.

Ethan, happily for his campaign, has lived in the state for 14. He faces a crowded field of adult rivals in Tuesday’s Democratic gubernatorial primary.

His website proclaims him a champion for middle- and working-class families, with “the right ideas” on healthcare reform, economic development and education never mind that he’s still years from graduating high school.

He identifies with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which has been increasingly in the ascendant in the United States since the ultimately thwarted run for president by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in 2016.

“I think I’m the candidate who best represents the change we need,” he told a televised town hall event earlier this month.

His rivals include Christine Hallquist, running to become America’s first transgender governor, James Ehlers, a Navy veteran and environmentalist, and Brenda Siegel, the executive director of a dance festival.

But despite praise for Sonneborn’s “maturity” and political awareness, his campaign has attracted calls for Vermont lawmakers to close the loophole.

“I think we should probably take a look at that to be perfectly honest,” Republican Governor Phil Scott told reporters when asked if he thought 14-year-olds should be eligible to run.

“I think you should at least be able to get your driver’s license at the time that you become governor.”

Scott, 60, has been at the helm of Vermont since 2016 and is running for re-election, facing Keith Stern, who runs a fruits and vegetable business, in the state’s gubernatorial Republican primary, also on Tuesday.

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I remembered vividly when I was 14. I used to go mango tree climbing along army barracks road, bida, Niger state. Then the government planted orchards. Over 800 mango trees along the 9km Bida road to National Cereals Research Institute. It was always fun after school hours.

Although I didn't have the opportunity to use mobile phones and computers like today's kids but I really enjoyed my childhood.

We enjoyed 24/7 electricity. Always watching

The Hard Way, The Only Way
American Ninja
Sesame Street
Tales By Moonlight(on Sunday evenings)
No Retreat, No Surrender
The Problem Child
Chuky
Jaguar Jaguar (Today's Mr IBU)
etc...
and one yoruba thriller home videos whose actor is called Agbija. He would say "E mi ni Agbija o wa ra beakun.

I was truly happy.

To be a governor. Did he think is easy.

Nothing is impossible

adewumiopeyemi:
To be a president. Did he think is easy.

The kid said he is running for governor of the state. Were u high on codine when posting that trash.

I don't see the possibility.

Becoming a governor is not a childs play naa

satelliteDISH:
I remembered vividly when I was 14. I used to go mango tree climbing along army barracks road, bida, Niger state. it was always fun after school hours.

Although I didn't have the opportunity to use mobile phones and computers like today's kids but I really enjoyed my childhood.

We enjoyed 24/7 electricity. Always watching

The Hard Way, The Only Way
American Ninja
Sesame Street
Tales By Moonlight(on Sunday evenings)
No Retreat, No Surrender
Jaguar Jaguar (Today's Mr IBU) etc...

I was truly happy.

I dey tell u....

The younger one is ,the happier.

He should go to school first before joining politics. He's a kid and still feeding from his mum's pot.

He should first be responsible for something like feeding himself before being responsible for the life and well being of the state.

engrsyer:
He should go to school first before joining politics. He's a kid and still feeding from his mum's pot.

He should first be responsible for something like feeding himself before being responsible for the life and well being of the state.

stupid Nigerians always thinking backwards

When they call a person white, this governorship candidate is it! No color!

U are the one being backward son, the chap made some valid points. A child can't run a state; it isa state, not Nursery or child's playpen its an obvious lacuna in their constitution which they need to revisit..

Tiimy:
stupid Nigerians always thinking backwards

satelliteDISH:
I remembered vividly when I was 14. I used to go mango tree climbing along army barracks road, bida, Niger state. Then the government planted orchards. Over 800 mango trees along the 9km Bida road to National Cereals Research Institute. It was always fun after school hours.

Although I didn't have the opportunity to use mobile phones and computers like today's kids but I really enjoyed my childhood.

We enjoyed 24/7 electricity. Always watching

The Hard Way, The Only Way
American Ninja
Sesame Street
Tales By Moonlight(on Sunday evenings)
No Retreat, No Surrender
The Problem Child
Chuky
Jaguar Jaguar (Today's Mr IBU)
etc...
and one yoruba thriller home videos whose actor is called Agbija. He would say "E mi ni Agbija o wa ra beakun.

I was truly happy.

.

egi nupe.

Tiimy:
stupid Nigerians always thinking backwards

Like what you just did.

byemx06:
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egi nupe.

U wouldn't know me. Am from Enugu state. I only schooled there.

Ɗon't ɓlame him. It's his pot ɓellƴ that is shooting out. That's his motivation!

satelliteDISH:


U wouldn't know me. Am from Enugu state. I only schooled there.

..
I also school there

The trannie has won! Good run kiddo!