Welcome to the Democratic Party of Teton County, Wyoming!
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TETON DEMS NEWS
ALERT
With one history-making day under our belts, Teton Dems are getting ready to roll out our second political event for the record books.
We showed the state our mettle in turning
out 20 percent of ALL the Democrats who went to
county conventions/caucuses throughout
This is the first Democratic State
Convention ever held in
As many as 650 Democratic activists are
expected to land here from all corners of the
state. Candidates for federal, state and local
offices will show up. Passionate Dems who care
about our country, state and communities will
write our Wyoming Democratic Platform, elect
delegates to the Democratic National Convention
in
We’ll need your help to make it happen.
You can join us as a volunteer, before or during the convention. You can sip and sup at a fund-raising lunch and dinner (both on Saturday), which will feature nationally-known speakers. You can help us welcome fellow Dems through a full-page Teton County Democratic Party ad in the convention program. You can put your name forward to be a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention. The following articles give the facts and the how-tos.
PLEASE ADD YOUR PERSONAL WELCOME TO
Here’s our biggest request: we are hoping that lots of Teton County Democrats will add their names to a WELCOME page in the convention program booklet.
For only $15 per person, or $25 per
couple, you can have your name appear in this
historic convention program. The money raised
will stay in
Don’t delay, do it now! First come, first listed. The deadline for printing the program is April 23.
Personal names only, please; no businesses or business names. And no checks from businesses.
If you would like to take a more prominent ad for your business, you can do so -- provided you pay with a personal check. The rates are from $50 for a one-eighth-page ad (business card size), to $400 for a full page.
For advertising rates and requirements, send an email to BonnieBK@msn.com with “Advertising” in the subject line, and we’ll email you the rate sheets that cover advertising in the program as well as exhibition/display tables at the convention venue.
BE A
VOLUNTEER
We’ll need lots of hands to help stage this event and keep it running smoothly. Jobs include helping us stuff the recycled canvas “goody bags” that will be given to delegates, making signs, directing parking, taking photos, checking in delegates on Friday and Saturday, welcoming them and providing information about the convention and about activities in Jackson Hole. And much more.
To volunteer, contact Carol Wauters at cwauters@bresnan.net or at 734-2536
HOW TO BECOME A
DELEGATE TO THE NATIONAL
CONVENTION
All but the five
superdelegates will be selected at the Wyoming
Democratic State Convention that will be held
here in
The 13 remaining delegates and four alternates to be chosen by the voting delegates at the State Convention will be selected in several categories. Of these, seven delegates and three alternates are considered “district level” delegates (i.e. delegates chosen by congressional district).
Another three delegates and two alternates are in the “at-large” category, and two delegates are in the category of “pledged party leader/elected official.” One additional delegate to the national convention will be nominated by our Wyoming State Chair John Millin.
To run as one of the
seven“district level” delegates, you
must have already been elected at our county
convention as a delegate to the State
Convention. We chose
To run for one of thethree
“at-large” delegate positions, you simply
must be a registered Democrat in
To run for one of thetwo “pledged party leader/elected official” slots, you must be a state-wide elected official, state legislative leader, state legislator, or other state, county and local elected official or party leader. Priority will be given in that order, so you have a much better chance of winning if you’re a state legislator than if you’re a precinct committeeman.
The final five delegates are the so-called
“super-delegates.” They get the jobs by virtue
of their party position or elected
office. They are Gov. Dave
Freudenthal, State Party Chair John Millin of
One little-known aspect of the DNC’s
delegate selection process is that leaders of
the presidential campaigns can review and
streamline the list of candidates running in
That means a designated person from the
campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton can strike
people from the list of candidates pledged to
If you are eligible and interested in
going to the National Convention as a delegate,
you must file a statement of candidacy and
pledge support to a presidential candidate or
uncommitted status. That has to be done by 5PM
MDT on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
Forms may be hand-delivered to the
Wyoming Democratic Party at
TETON DEMS MAKE HISTORY MARCH
8!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard by now that the Teton County Democratic Convention and Caucus was an historic event. And huge fun. More than 1,200 people crowded into Snow King throughout the afternoon and evening – everyone from young folks still in ski boots to dedicated friends in wheelchairs to babes in arms. That’s nearly five times as many people as attended the 2004 convention, where attendance shattered past records.
It was
The best analysis of our enthusiasm lies
in these figures:
Some other statistics: 1,151 people cast
valid ballots for presidential preference; 80
percent of the votes went to Sen. Barack Obama,
who was awarded 27 half-delegates to the state
convention; 20 percent of the voters supported
Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won 7 half-delegates
from
Scores of people put themselves forward to be delegates to the state convention, delivering variously idealistic, emotional and funny messages to support their candidacy and their presidential favorite. Those who got the most votes were elected delegates, and another 34 people were selected as alternates.
Here are the delegates for Obama: Joe Albright, Bill Broyles, Cindy Campbell, Vance Carruth, Adrienne Christian, Ben Clark, Emily Curran, Zoe Hardy, Barbara Herz, Chuck Herz, Arne Jorgensen, Jean Jorgensen, Bonnie Koeln, Marcia Kunstel, Ben Linn, Tyson Logan, Kristina Loggia, Amy McCarthy, Tat Maxwell, Ellen Meyers, Willie Neal, Hank Phibbs, Andy Schwartz, Kent Spence, Jim Stanford, Mary Pat Walker, Julie Zell.
Here are the delegates for
Here are alternates for Obama: Todd Bergstein, Roxanne Bierman, Gerry Bosch, Susannah Broyles, Tammy Christel, Deborah Clemens, Mike Cloherty, Herrick Fox, Mary Gerty, Bevin Helm, Darrel Hoffman, Dennis Johnson, Francis Knight, Ed Krajsky, James Legros, Dave Leinonen, Marcia Male, Carolyn Page McNeill, Robin Moore, Debra O’Neil, Cathlene Poindexter, Larry Rieser, Patricia Sabon, Deb Sprague, Kirk Sprague, Curtis Stauffer, Louise Wade.
Here are alternates for
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