Gary Trauner, the Democrat from Jackson who almost booted Barbara Cubin from Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat in 2006, is set to make a big announcement tomorrow. Could it be that he will run again in 2008? We hope so.
Mike Bell, head of the Laramie County Democrats, dialed up Gary on his cell phone last night during the Jim Byrd Memorial Dinner. Dems in the room sent loud greetings to Gary. Later, over the traditional Democratic repast of chili, hot dogs and apple pie, we agreed that another Trauner run was what we'd all been hoping for. We will be knocking on a lot of doors and walking all the neighborhoods before November 2008.
Cubin beat Trauner by only 1,000 votes last time. Most of those votes came from rural precincts in central and northeastern Wyoming. Can Gary pursuade those voters that he will work harder than Cubin, who has a dismal no-show rate of 45 percent? Can he pursuade them that he's not an elitist East Coast liberal, which was the brush Republicans painted him with last time? Should he forget rural voters and concentrate on the cities, most of which he won in 2006? We'll need to increase the number of Trauner voters in Cheyenne, Casper, Rock Springs, Sheridan, Riverton, Lander, Gillette, Laramie and Jackson. That would put Gary over the top.
Stay tuned...
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