Wyoming's Democrats have a vision. Now they just need someone to listen to them.
Several weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Worland resident Amanda Weaver — a Democrat — decided to go to her first state party meeting.
A relative novice to politics, she — like many of the 65.8 million Americans to vote Democrat in that year’s elections — felt “shook up” at the time, like the complacency that members of the party had shown throughout the Obama years would no longer cut it. Even in certified “red” states like Wyoming.
“It made us put a little more action behind our feelings and words,” she said. “I wanted to stop complaining about things or worrying about things or wanting things to change. I couldn’t do that anymore. I had to start doing something to be the change I wanted to see.”
In Worland, Weaver’s efforts would be the first seen there in a long time. Considered a “dark county” at the time, Washakie County had zero Democratic presence in the area: no county party, no local activist groups, no mechanism to spread the Democratic message whatsoever.
Read more: https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/wyoming-s-democrats-have-a-vision-now-they-just-need/article_5cf1e458-391e-5ce7-bc9a-a19db33c1ad6.html
(Casper Star Tribune)