Editor:
A candidate's past history and performance have to be guidelines that will likely reflect their future actions. In the race for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives there are four candidates. Cynthia Lummis is the only one who has been elected to a legislative office and has any law making experience.
She has successfully learned the complexities of the legislative process. In fact, she was the youngest female ever elected to the Legislature, where she served in both the House and Senate for a total of 14 years. She then was elected twice to statewide office as state treasurer, where she grew Wyoming's fixed income investment portfolio from $3.5 billion to $8.5 billion.
None of her opponents, Republican or Democrat, have ever been elected to the state Legislature or any statewide office.
Mark Gordon, Republican, never elected to any public office, contributed $2,000 to John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004, $2,500 to National Democratic committee in 2004 and $7,100 to the Sierra Club beginning in 1982. In the 2006 U.S. House race he contributed $1,000 to democrat Gary Trauner.
Bill Winney, Republican, never elected to any public office, is qualified to command a nuclear submarine.
Gary Trauner, Democrat, the only public office ever elected was to the Teton County School Board.
Cynthia Lummis is a fourth generation Wyoming rancher with deep roots in the Wyoming agricultural community. If past history of service to the state has any bearing on who we should elect to the Wyoming seat in Congress, you have to choose Cynthia Lummis. She is far more qualified than any of her opponents. This is no time for an amateur!
ELMER PARSON, Casper
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Lorretta wrote on Aug 3, 2008 4:56 PM:
Please stop trying to convince us that 20+ years receiving a politician's pay check is a "good" thing.
Go Gordon or Trauner! "
john wrote on Aug 4, 2008 1:39 PM:
Annette wrote on Aug 5, 2008 9:15 PM:
By your definition, if political experience were all it took to make a good candidate, then John Kerry and Hillary Clinton would be pretty darn good candidates, right?
I do not want a candidate who simply has 'political experience'. We abound in those candidates. We need somebody who has good values, knows hard work, has the right attitude, runs a clean campaign, and can DO the job.
Look at Lummis' record. Do you really want somebody with her record to be Wyoming's Congressional candidate?
Not me!!! "
Albany wrote on Aug 10, 2008 4:33 PM:
FYI, if you want to know the truth, which Lummis won't tell you. She didn't run to e-trade and invest that money and receive that return. The majority of the increase in that account came from severance taxes and other sources ( 4 other sources to be exact) of principle income.
Yes it is true that her principle grew by over 4.5 million bringing her principle to 8 million. So she earned interest of .5 Billion. Which sounds like a lot but it's 6.25%. July 08' inflations rate was 5.2% So really she earned a whopping 1.05% on our money.
High Five Cynthia! You have so much to brag about!
Maybe if people were actually interested enough in the truth they would figure these things out for themselves instead of just assuming that what she tells us is the truth. But hey, it says it on her facebook page so it must be true right? Not exactly. It doesn't pay to be ignorant. "
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