Campaign Season Is Hitting Wyoming
Mar 1st 2008Scott2nd Amendment & American History & Politics & U.S. Military & War on Terrorism & Wyoming & Yellowstone East Gate & conservatism & elections & multiple use & patriotism & pro-life issues & socialized healthcare & taxes & traditional marriage & wolves
Wyoming politics can be a humorous subject at times. The best part is that it’s not always the satire that we get our laughs from, it’s the actual events and people involved!
Take Al Hamburg for example. He’s run for just about everything you can seek election for in the state. His most favored race seems to be the Democratic nomination for the At-Large Congressional district in Wyoming. He also likes third-parties and being independent.
He contended against incumbent Gov. Freudenthal in 2006. Ironically, he can’t serve if elected on the state level. A typical Democrat, he got into some election fraud trouble. He can still serve for Federal offices though.
Late last year, it was announced that he would be seeking the Democrat nomination for President. Gov. Freudenthal, a super-delegate at the DNC convention in Denver this year, has not been pleased by any of the candidates so far, and apparently, fellow Wyomingite Al Hamburg didn’t help matters any. Al Hamburg must have gotten a call from the Clintons or something, as he had, by the end of the year, resorted to his favorite nomination to seek: Democrat for Congress.
I applauded the move, as Gary Trauner needs someone to run against in August. The Republican slate is filled to the brim, and rumor has it that there could be more interested candidates. Can’t the Democrats at least have some choices in August? Aren’t they the “party of choice?” Why is “Big Al” denying Wyoming Democrats a choice in who they nominate to run against the Republican nominee? No wonder Gov. Freudenthal didn’t announce support for his Presidential bid.
Well, Al Hamburg continues to baffle the political observers and participants in Wyoming. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), while not revealing his own re-election plans, recently commented at the Park County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner that Al Hamburg intends to run against Sen. Barrasso in November. Those of us that know the history of Al Hamburg got a good laugh out of that line, especially when Sen. Enzi recounted how Al Hamburg went over to Nebraska to run for a Senate office there, and when he lost, he came back to Wyoming to run for his destined-to-lose Democrat nomination.
To make matters even more interesting, Politics1 has Al Hamburg listed as a Democrat candidate against Mike Enzi. The site administrator states that he has received an e-mail noting Mr. Hamburg’s switch in races. We’ll have to see what happens.
In other news, there is a for-sure Democrat intending to run against Sen. Barrasso, and this continues the humor of Wyoming politics. His name is Keith Goodenough. I kid you not. His last name is Goodenough, presumably pronounced good-ee-nuff.
Goodenough says he’s running largely because of how Barrasso, who is also a former state senator, worked against him during Goodenough’s unsuccessful Wyoming Senate re-election bid in 2004. […]
A spokesman for the Barrasso campaign says it’s “awfully early” in the campaign season for attack politics. He says Barrasso will continue working hard to put Wyoming first in the U.S. Senate.
Folks, it’s just too tempting. This is about as good as having Al Hamburg run for something.
- Does he think he’s good-enough to be Senator?
- I mean, it’s going to take more than a name to be good-enough to be better than Sen. Barrasso.
- I guess, at the very least, this Democrat is good-enough to be the first Democrat to announce an official Senate campaign in Wyoming in 2008.
Meanwhile, I would like to point out a couple of features on the blog. I have added a section on the blogroll called “Endorsed Candidates.” There, you will begin seeing links to official campaign websites of the candidates that I am endorsing. Sen. Barrasso has an official campaign site and he has made the list! I would also like to note that I do have a strong favorite in the Republican U.S. House race. However, I do have e-mail replies pending, so I can’t make the public endorsement yet.
I would also like to point out WVT’s The Race Is On page. Here you will find a website link index for the various campaigns across the state.
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