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Fremont County Republican Party

I think, therefore I am ... Republican

PRESS RELEASE 9-5-07
WYOMING REPUBLICAN PARTY
Executive Director Amy Larimer
307-234-9166 fax 307-473-8640
www.wygop.org
wygop@vcn.com

Presidential Candidates in Wyoming!!

The Wyoming Republican Party is excited to announce that a majority of the GOP presidential candidates have committed to attending a day long event on Saturday September 29 in our great state. Casper College will host the first of two town hall type meetings beginning at 10:00 am. There will be time for each candidate to speak with follow-up questions from Republican precinct committee men and women. A chance for one on one conversations will put the last touches on the Casper location and should electrify the Republican voters in Wyoming. Until last month, our state had not seen a real presidential candidate in three decades. Due to the commitment of the GOP leaders to insure Wyoming has a part in the final national selection, the county conventions will choose voting delegates committed to specific candidates on January 5, 2008.

Moving on to Riverton and Central Wyoming College at 5:00 pm, the format will be the same but the audience will most probably include the precinct people from the western side of the state. There will be a Chuck Wagon Dinner prior to the event. Both colleges are gearing up for an influx of national media attention and possible secret service security. The public is invited to attend either or both venues and should have an up close and personal “once in a lifetime” experience. Further information on the Wyoming Presidential Forums will be released as the countdown continues. Contact the Wyoming Republican Headquarters in Casper for more details and visit with your local GOP leaders.

Wyoming's Early Contest Lures Candidates

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - For Wyoming Republicans, a decision to jump ahead of other states in the presidential nominating process has paid off: former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is coming to town.

Saturday's visit by one of the four top tier GOP candidates as part of a forum in Casper has energized the state's Republicans, who haven't felt such a buzz since Dick Cheney became vice president.

"The Wyoming Republican Party knew that it was breaking the rule when it went early. And we said, 'We're the Cowboy State, and we're willing to blaze a trail here,'" said Perry Marple, an attorney and state Republican committeeman who suggested Saturday's forum.

The state's GOP leaders voted overwhelmingly last month to move their delegate-selection conventions to Jan. 5. That gave Wyoming the nation's earliest nomination contest, exactly a month before 22 states hold contests in what has evolved into a national primary. Continue reading ...

GOP Presidential Candidates Visit Wyoming

From NewsWest.net:

Three Republican candidates for president—Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter and Sam Brownback—all ventured into “Cheney country” this weekend, during a meet-the-candidates forum held at Swede Erickson Thunderbird Gymnasium at Casper College.

The college is just up the hill from the alma mater of Vice-President Dick Cheney, Natrona County High School.

All three sounded largely the same themes, although Hunter took a more populist slant, decrying the loss of manufacturing jobs to China. Continue reading ...