The Wyoming Democartic Party announced yesterday that Mary Hales has been selected by the Natrona County Commission to fill the vacancy in state House District 36 left by the resignation last month of Liz Gentile of Evansville.
Mary has served the Wyoming Democratic Party as state party secretary for a number of years, and she is a long-time local real estate agent. Her district represents parts of east Casper and Evansville.
Hales was one of three candidates nominated for the position. The others were Gretchen Wheeler and Penney Miller.
The WyoDems web site pointed out that it's fitting that "one of the few women in the Wyoming Legislature has been replaced by another woman." Kind of a sad state of affairs when The Equality State has only a few women in the Legislature. In 2006, we elected two new Dem women reps from Laramie County: Lori Millin and Mary Throne. Lori represents my district and beat Republican Larry Meuli by nine votes. Those are the votes in our household plus four others, if you figure that most households have at least two voters. The turnout was not so great in 2006, with our precinct coming in at about 70 percent of registered voters.
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