2014 Teton County General Election

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2014

Teton County

General Election JHNewsAndGuide.com/news/election

A special supplement to the Jackson Hole News&Guide

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Index

Re-elect Barbara Herz

Lodging Tax Mayor Town Council County Commissioners St. John’s Medical Center Board of Trustees Clerk of District Court County Assessor County Coroner House District 23 House District 22

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The “sky bridge” at Hotel Terra is convenient and interesting, but it won’t bring people to the Hole the way the lodging tax does, supporters say.

I WILL WORK TO KEEP WYOMING BUSINESS FRIENDLY BY FIGHTING FRAUD AND EXCESS REGULATION AND INVESTING MORE OF WYOMING’S WEALTH IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

Lodging tax Reauthorization of 2 percent tax year, Travel and Tourism Board Coordinator Kate Sollitt said. Even during the seasons the tax is meant to promote, however, the tax won’t lead to more traffic, she said. “Does [the tax] affect the traffic during the shoulder season or the winter? I don’t think so,” Sollitt said in the forum, sponsored by Teton County Library, the Teton County League of Women Voters and the News&Guide. The Travel and Tourism Board is an appointed group composed of tourist-industry representatives charged with disbursing the majority of money levied by the lodging tax. Recent traffic studies have shown that as much as 60 percent of summer traffic consists of drivers from outside Jackson Hole. Asked at the forum for evidence that the lodging tax does not worsen the county’s traffic by increasing the number of tourists, neither McLaurin, Sollitt nor Travel and Tourism Board Chairwoman Pontier Sackrey could offer any. McLaurin did say, however, that due to increasing numbers of county residents he believes “we’re going to have continued traffic growth regardless of this tax.” Much of the 30 percent of the tax intended to offset the impacts of tourists pays for bus service and pathways throughout the county. Every other county in the state must use 90 percent of the tax to market its amenities to tourists. Teton County sought and won special legislation changing the distribution ratio in 1998, though it still took more than a decade for Jackson Hole voters to reinstitute it. As far back as 1986, when Teton County first approved the tax, its opponents complained that tourism already constituted too large a segment of the county’s economy, and that subsidizing the industry may contribute to overdevelopment. “If business owners go too far and overdevelop services,” Bill Phelps asked in a 1986 letter to the editor of the Jackson Hole News, “is the local government obligated to enact a tax in order to supply them with more customers? Are their customers obligated to pay the tax so that other tourists will be there to take their places when they leave? “How many ice cream shops can Jackson support?” he wrote. “How many restaurants? How many motels, and how many donut shops?” — Michael Polhamus

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A tax designed to promote tourism in the Tetons will come before voters next week for reauthorization, and supporters say town and county budgets have been written on the assumption the tax will pass. The 2 percent tax on all overnight stays has been rejected three times since 1994, with detractors as far back as 30 years ago claiming they had had their fill of an expanding tourism industry. Hoteliers and restaurateurs have defended the tax by saying 30 percent of its proceeds are earmarked to offset the impact of tourists, and 10 percent goes to town and county coffers to be spent as elected leaders see fit. The bulk of the tax revenue, 60 percent, is used to attract more tourists to Jackson Hole. County voters approved the tax again in 2010, and collections have steadily grown since. Last year the tax brought in about $4.5 million. Earlier this month at a forum for voters, Jackson Town Manager Bob McLaurin and two women charged with managing lodging tax revenue said they could not think of a single downside to the tax. But the author of a recent fourcounty housing study said in October that promoting additional tourism is likely to aggravate existing housing shortages. More marketing of tourism in Jackson Hole will increase the number of people looking for housing while employed in the lowest-paying industry in Teton County, said Melanie Rees, the study’s author. Because the tourism industry worsens the county’s housing shortage as a result, Rees said, some other resort towns have discouraged additional growth of the industry within their jurisdictions. Rees’ findings affirmed a housing study published last summer that found hospitality and retail employees in Teton County required the greatest housing subsidies of any sector, due to the industry’s low wages. Backers of the tax argue that it actually helps low-income workers by extending the tourist season throughout the year, creating a more stable business and employment environment. Because the tax isn’t meant to market Jackson Hole’s summer season, tax proponents say, summer traffic won’t get any worse as a result of marketing Jackson Hole. The tax is meant “to fill out capacity” through the remainder of the

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Town of Jackson Mayor Two-year term Two candidates, nonpartisan Sara Flitner Mark Nowlin ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The race to be the next mayor of Jackson is down to two candidates who differ in the nature of their political experience. Sara Flitner and Mark Nowlin have both been involved with town politics. Flitner, a public relations consultant and lobbyist, has worked for businesses and public boards on policy issues in recent years. Most recently she was hired by phone book companies during a time when the council was discussing a ban on unwanted directory deliveries. She has also been hired by cellphone companies seeking tower approvals from Teton County. Other experiences in the political realm for Flitner include work for Jackson Hole Airport and the Teton County School District and as a lobbyist in the state Legislature representing nonprofits and companies. Flitner views herself as a “collaborator” and a “problem solver,” roles she says would be important as mayor. Nowlin’s political experience dates back to

stints on the Jackson Town Council and Town Planning and Zoning Commission more than a decade ago. During his tenure on the council he helped the town negotiate with Albertsons and Smith’s Food and Drug for more community benefits designed into their developments. Nowlin said he knows how to ask developers for community benefit in larger projects and how to do so up front. He stepped away from politics in the early 2000s after the death of his daughter from a chronic illness but is ready to enter the arena again. Both candidates have pointed to their experience as setting them apart. Both also are smallbusiness owners: Nowlin runs the Master’s Studio, an art supply store and picture framing business; Flitner runs Flitner Strategies, a business strategy and public relations consulting firm. Both also have said they entered the race looking to give back to the community, which they say has supported them through the years. Flitner and Nowlin are vying to replace Jackson’s second-longest-serving mayor, Mark Barron, who is in the tail-end of his sixth two-year term in the post and chose not to run again this year.

Barron has endorsed Flitner since she announced her intention to run last January. Nowlin didn’t enter the race until the last day of the filing period in May. He decided to seek election when it appeared no one was going to challenge Flitner. As it turned out, two others also filed on the last day: Geneva Chong and Stephen McDonald. Flitner and Nowlin easily beat out their competitors at the primary election in August, receiving 593 and 528 votes. They also were tops in raising money for the primary, although Flitner far outpaced the rest of the field with her total of $34,670. Nowlin brought in $5,135. Whoever wins will take the helm of the town in the midst of several hot issues. There has been community clamor to get new land development regulations passed as soon as possible. Candidates have made that a top priority on the campaign trail. In the wake of an exceptionally tight rental market last summer, housing also is expected to be on the council’s plate in the near future. — Ben Graham

Jackson Town Council Two seats open; four-year term Three candidates, nonpartisan Don Frank (Incumbent) Bob Lenz (Incumbent) John Stennis ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Jackson Town Council faces little to no turnover at the ballot box this general election, but that doesn’t mean the race isn’t a tight one. Three candidates with political experience are competing for two seats on the council. Incumbent Bob Lenz, who has served two consecutive four-year terms, is seeking a third. A longtime Jackson resident and retired pharmacist, 81-year-old Lenz

has cited his “institutional memory” as what sets him apart in the race. He mentioned his 39 years living in town and his tenure on the council. Lenz’s fellow incumbent in the race is Don Frank, who was appointed from a field of 11 applicants to his seat in 2013 after Councilor Melissa Turley left the town for a position on the Teton County Board of Commissioners. Frank, a 62-year-old custom home builder at Dembergh Construction, has pointed out that he is the only business owner, employer and father with school-age children among the field of Town Council candidates. That level of

community involvement is what distinguishes him, Frank said. Stennis, 32, works at Gilday Architects and has served on the planning commission for four years. He jumped in the race, he said, because he wants to provide continuity on the council as the elected body begins implementing the Jackson/Teton County Comprehensive Plan. Six-time incumbent mayor Mark Barron is leaving his post, Stennis observed. Stennis has worked intimately with the master plan as a planning commissioner and wants to help get new zoning approved based on the

document. Throughout the fall campaign season the candidates have talked about transportation, workforce housing and approve new zoning laws as pressing issues the town faces. Because of election laws there was space for four candidates on the general election ballot, but only three filed to run. As a result the council race was uncontested during the August primary. The primary ballot count finished with Lenz at 812, Frank at 721 and Stennis at 689. — Ben Graham

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Town of Jackson Mayor

Flitner

Priorities

Density

Workforce housing

Future of Snow King

My first priority would be to sit down with the Town Council, current and newly elected, and town manager. We have a great team in place, and I want to learn more about building on their current achievements and priorities. Secondly, we need to have a serious community priority-setting session with regard to housing our working families. Business owners, nonprofits with staffing needs, philanthropists, seniors, and large and small employers all need to be in the room so that we can talk about needs and obstacles from a real perspective.

Our community has been talking about “Town as Heart” and downtown redevelopment for almost a decade, and we are now poised to see some of those ideas come into play. We are accepting more density in the town, and we can balance that if we keep our eyes open. As our infrastructure and transportation connections improve, we can do a better job with getting people around the community, which will be critical. I would like to see us facilitate something along the lines of a smaller-scale Blair Place apartments, which provide a comfortable, familyfriendly rental option.

People from every sector of the community are most worried about housing and about what happens to our community if we are simply a high-end playground. We all want to see the same thing: Jackson stays a real community, made up of real people who live, work and give their time here. As I have said, I want to see a ballot measure for housing on the next SPET cycle so that we have allocated funding. SPET allows the community as a whole to vote on this, which I support. As previously mentioned, engaging our employers is critical. Private sector has done a lot and will continue to play an important role.

Snow King is our Town Hill, and I use it every week. I care what happens there. Town should facilitate a productive conversation and public process so we have the best chance possible of keeping the King vibrant and accessible. I don’t want Snow King to look different, but I know it has to be different. I am curious about the new plans being discussed and was pleased to learn that uses for existing property are being proposed to align with some real community needs, like housing for our seniors.

The day-to-day function of town is of top importance. Blended into that matrix is the LDR process, housing, Snow King, Budge Drive, bus barn goals to accomplish.

No one area is going to be the solution site for density. If the landowner wants a more dense site, the town should evaluate each proposal with much input from neighbors and sound long-range planning. Density will not pop up instantly or in just one neighborhood. Over time the neighborhoods will change and gradually become more dense.

Workforce housing is a continual situation we experience in Jackson. Some businesses have purchased their own housing resources. The free-market failure to provide enough housing has been seen in the number of rental units per job opportunities. The current housing organizations are a deliberate but slow process, as are most government institutions. Once the LDRs are in place hopefully the private sector can more rapidly address this situation. Both prongs must be employed.

The ski hill is a significant part of the town character. Maintenance of that trait is paramount. Town, by virtue of property, is a stakeholder. And part and parcel to that is the maintenance of the town as a place where real working people live. So development of other than skiing and winter events of a permanent nature must seriously be evaluated with consideration of town character.

Workforce housing

Transportation

Zoning / LDRs

Future of Snow King

Housing is tight year round, insufficient seasonally and daunting for younger folks who want to stay. Those dependent on earned wages alone cannot compete. The town of Jackson is buying units, funding land, supporting the Grove and Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust pilot rental project. We need creativity in housing types and locations, harmonious, streamlined housing practices, reliable funding, conducive zoning and broad public support. Our greatest challenge is securing land. A SPET initiative could affirm that housed workers build healthy communities. Funding workforce housing may define courage in our comp plan convictions.

We must expand mass transit locally and regionally while leveraging our built investments, the proposed and completed pedestrian and bicycle paths, growing daily use through education, invitation, encouragement and role modeling. We can slow traffic speeds, reducing human and wildlife losses. Lighter electric, hybrid vehicles, even autonomous vehicles, will become smaller and make strides in collision avoidance. We must plan to optimize transportation, identify and deploy more and safer choices. Complete more pedestrian-friendly streets. Use smart technology to match bus size to seat demands with frequency of stops offsetting fuel consumption and trip durations.

LDRs stated in clear language and userfriendly information access allow owners to understand entitlements. Realtime stakeholders, commissioners and council reviews are paramount. The public deserves logic, transparency and definition. We must plan with restraint to guide toward eventual desired density, function and form while carefully respecting private property rights. To meet community needs we must match highest and best purpose uses to optimize land constraints while preserving our irreplaceable environmental legacy. We know that community needs evolve and economies are cyclical. Our comprehensive plan informs long-term goals. Let’s always look ahead.

The town is the consequential partner tailoring our resource for ongoing viability and operational success. We must shape and guide impact deliberately. Projects like town of Jackson, Ski Club and Snow King snowmaking and night lighting are a great example. Although the town must control uses that cross town property, projects with solid capital funding along with operational and maintenance funding are preferred. Skiing is a high-risk businesses vulnerable to weather, economic cycles and competition; therefore the town is not the ideal operator. We should consider site-sensitive activities to keep Snow King competitive.

Workforce housing has been a problem all the time I have been in Jackson (arrived in 1975). Some periods are better and some are worse, but it has always been a problem. Home ownership has always been difficult. Until about 1992 workers might figure out some method to own their own home. Since that time the opportunities are few. I am open to all ideas to help solve the problem and to keep housing 65 percent of our workforce. This 65 percent is what makes our town a community and not a valleywide motel.

The most pressing transportation problem today is the number of single-occupancy vehicles on the road. Getting people to cycle or walk helps a little, but, at best, those numbers will be small. At this time workers commuting into the valley in single-occupancy vehicles are the low-hanging fruit for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the number of cars on the road. This problem is best addressed with increased service by the START bus to Star Valley and Teton Valley, Idaho. Increasing service certainly will help, but it is an expensive undertaking. Each new bus costs about $450,000. We also need a new maintenance facility at the START bus transit center.

The LDRs have been a priority agenda item since the Comprehensive Plan was approved. It is important to complete them as soon as possible, but that is not an easy task. These LDRs do not have to be perfect, but they must clearly delineate the character, density and uses allowed in particular areas. Alex Norton and Tyler Sinclair have been exemplary in guiding the process forward. Jackson and Teton County are not “cookie-cutter” entities. Therefore the LDRs are custom-designed to fit our needs. Custom always takes more time than off-the-shelf.

If Snow King is to continue as the center of winter activity in downtown Jackson, it must be tastefully transformed into a year-round facility operating at a profit. As a town councilman I do not believe it necessary or prudent for the town to become owner of something that loses between $250,000 and $500,000 a year. With proper development Snow King can be an exciting, profitable venue, providing a variety of enjoyable activities both summer and winter.

Our housing problem is significant, and I want Jackson to remain a community and not a repository for second-home owners. We need to stabilize our rental market with new apartments, get our land development regulations completed and establish a dedicated funding source for housing. With the current focus on development in town, a regional development authority can help the community develop projects and advocate for private development, public-private partnerships and public development much the way the chamber of commerce works to build our business and tourism economies.

As a planning commissioner I am looking forward to seeing the conclusions of the Integrated Transportation Plan, which will guide the community in addressing these issues. Key goals will be to continue our commitment to START, developing a comprehensive network of pathways for bikes and pedestrians, and working to install sidewalks across major streets in town. We can’t build our way out of this problem through road expansion. Making other modes of transportation more safe, convenient and comfortable is essential to addressing our community’s transportation issues.

Right now the focus needs to be on completing our land development regulations, and we need to get it done sooner rather than later. I want to provide the resources to our staff to complete a full draft of land development regulations ready for public review by the end of 2015 and get our regulations approved. This is the first and most critical step and allows us to have regulations in line with the goals of the comprehensive plan. It also allows us to have substantive conversations about a long-term housing strategy.

Snow King is an important amenity for our community, and many of us who live in town use it as an extension of our back yard. What I care about is keeping the mountain the Town Hill and helping to ensure its long-term success. There have been many proposals floated, but any involving taxpayer funds will need to show how these funds will provide financial stability and infrastructure improvement to the mountain along with a payback to the town.

Nowlin

Jackson Town Council

Frank

Lenz

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Teton County Board of Commissioners Three seats; four-year term Seven candidates Scott Anderson (I) Ben Ellis (D – incumbent) Mark Newcomb (D) Reynolds Pomeroy (R) Paul Perry (R) Smokey Rhea (D) Paul Vogelheim (R – incumbent) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Seven candidates, including two incumbents, are vying for the three openings on the Teton County Board of Commissioners. The commission has five elected members. Commissioners Barbara Allen and Melissa Turley won’t be up for re-election for another two years. Three Republican candidates, three Democrats and one independent constitute the roster from which voters will choose the county leadership next week. Paul Perry, Reynolds Pomeroy and incumbent Paul Vogelheim make up the Republican ticket this year. Mark Newcomb, Smokey Rhea and incumbent Ben Ellis are all running as Democrats. Scott Anderson is seeking office as the lone Independent candidate. Teton County Republican party Chairman T.R. Pierce said at the party’s convention that the GOP’s highest priority this year is to turn control of the commission over to Republicans. Currently the party has only two commissioners on the board serving alongside three Democrats. Most county agencies — including fire and EMS, parks and recreation, planning and building, engineering and public health — are under the board’s authority. Commissioners also appoint members of the library and airport boards, the Teton County Housing Authority, the Board of Health and many other organizations. Though commissioners have no direct authority over the other seven elected county officials — sheriff, clerk, treasurer, prosecutor, assessor, clerk of District Court and coroner — the board is charged with approving the budgets for each of those elected officials’ departments. Commissioners serve four-year terms. Scott Anderson Anderson, an Independent, manages Great Western Lodging, a Jackson hospitality company. Until recently he served as chairman of the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, and he remains a director on the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Anderson has held a seat on the Jackson Town Council, where he worked on housing, conservation, redevelopment and fiscal discipline, he said.

Anderson said greater transparency in local government will be one of the primary goals he will pursue if he wins a seat on the board. If elected he will also seek to “bring the public back into public policy,” he said. Even without formal public hearings, ordinary people can influence laws and policies by reaching out to commissioners, Anderson said. “There’s always an opportunity for the public to reach out and speak on these things,” he said. Ben Ellis Incumbent Ellis, a Democrat, owns a business in Jackson called Sagebrush Energy, which aids in planning, permitting and building renewable energy sources. The company commonly works on utilityscale wind and hydro projects in the Rocky Mountain region, he said. When he was a youngster, he said, “it became clear to me that public policy effects our lives in positive and negative ways when our town council approved a nuclear power facility a few miles from my childhood home.” As a result of his belief in the importance of public policy, Ellis said, he secured a position working on natural resource policy for a U.S. senator in Oregon. During that time he became connected to issues such as the effects of federal policy on the landscape, wildlife and economics, he said. Appointed to the county planning commission in 2004, Ellis won a seat on the Board of County Commissioners by 2007. As a commissioner he has served as liaison to numerous county boards and held the vice chairman and chairman positions for two years each. Ellis said he intends to partner with the National Park Service on transit and cycling issues, to further transportation planning and to develop new land development regulations consistent with the 2012 Jackson/Teton County Comprehensive Plan. Mark Newcomb Newcomb, who guided for Exum Mountain Guides and co-owned it for 18 years, now works as a selfemployed consultant in environmental economics. He is a board member for the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs and the Grand Teton National Park Foundation. For the past six year he has sat on the Teton County Planning Commission. Those experiences brought Newcomb to “understand business, planning ahead, risk, teamwork, attention to detail as necessary and perseverance,” he said. The county government must hold

onto its employees to work effectively, Newcomb said. To assist with that and to ensure there are employees for Jackson Hole’s businesses, commissioners must lead in the effort to provide workforce housing. Newcomb said he would strive to “hire and retain capable, hardworking county staff. ... We rely on their skill and diligence.” If elected Newcomb will also work to implement a transportation plan “that reflects our community values, fosters steady improvements in the START bus system, completes local pathway loops such as the South Park Loop connector and ensures our ability to respond quickly and effectively to catastrophes.” Paul Perry Republican Perry owns Jacksonbased Canvas Unlimited with his sister. The company specializes in renting tents for occasions ranging from marriages to corporate events to television and movie productions. “It’s been in our family since the ’60s,” Perry said of the company. “I have a degree in engineering and chose to run the family business instead of running off to Texas or something.” Perry served two years as a county commissioner, but two years ago he lost in his bid to remain in the position. During his term, Perry said, he managed to insert references to private property rights in six places in the comprehensive plan. Perry said he would devote special consideration to housing for the county’s employees and housing options for the benefit of their employers. Perry would also endeavor to protect the county’s wildlife, open spaces, natural resources and access to public land, he said. Reynolds Pomeroy Pomeroy works as a sales associate with the Clear Creek Group’s real estate brokerage division. A registered Republican since 1975, he has not yet held a political office, he said. He has, however, been appointed by county commissioners to the Teton County Planning Commission twice, serving from 1990 to 1996. Implementation of the county’s new land development regulations, Pomeroy said, is an important and current duty of the commission that he intends to tackle once in office. In addition, he said, an integrated transportation plan must be completed and implemented. Smokey Rhea For 11 years Rhea has served as executive director of the Community Resource Center, a Jackson

organization providing emergency assistance, crisis intervention and poverty prevention services. She will retire from that position Friday. But the list of positions she has held outside her work is long. “I’m a doer,” Rhea said. She not only serves on numerous volunteer boards but also takes on leadership roles on those boards to ensure things happen, she said. She has been appointed by the governor to serve on his Council on Developmental Disabilities. She was voted to the board of the Wyoming Continuum of Care, a federally mandated organization serving the homeless. At her first meeting she was made vice president of the organization, she said. Rhea has served locally on the St. John’s Medical Center, Children’s Learning Center, Rotary Club and Community Counseling Center boards, among others. She is the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Teton County representative, and she volunteers for the Jackson Cupboard, the Good Samaritan Mission, the Salvation Army and other organizations. Rhea was appointed to the position of intake agent for the state’s Section 8 housing agency, she said. Paul Vogelheim Incumbent Vogelheim has worked as a ski host at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and as a reporter for the industry research firm Off the Record Research for the past five years, he said. For the past six years he has been a county commissioner. Last year he served as the board’s chairman. Vogelheim said the drafting of new land development regulations will be an important task to accomplish during his next term. The drafting process needs to be accelerated, he has said, and the regulations put in place must emphasize the importance of property rights and wildlife habitat. Workforce housing is another item on Vogelheim’s short list for the next term, he has said. He said that he intends to advance the 2012 Jackson/Teton County Comprehensive Plan’s goal of housing 65 percent of the county’s workforce within Jackson Hole and that freemarket solutions will be instrumental toward that end. The Snake River Management Plan now under development is something Vogelheim wants to give special attention to, he said. He would also like to examine funding for critical human services providers with an eye to ensuring that they have sufficient financial support. — Michael Polhamus

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Teton County Board of Commissioners Top priority

Property rights

Lodging tax

Highway expansion

More responsible spending.

Protection of private property rights must be first and foremost among the concerns of elected officials, especially incoming commissioners, who will be charged with crafting new land development regulations. Regulation tends to infringe on those rights, and elected leaders must carefully weigh whether they’re truly justified. I think almost any land development regulation lessens the ability of property owners to build what they want and is subject to being challenged or complained about.

Supports the lodging tax. It helps create year-round jobs that keep workers in the community, and it evens out economic swings. If the tax encourages additional development of tourist amenities, it could become a problem. Hospitality businesses create a lot of low-wage jobs — cleaning staff, service staff, etc. I get concerned when I’m seeing new hotels getting built and you know they’re going to be [paying] lower wages and you’ve already got a housing problem in town.

Time may work in the county’s favor, as may budget constraints that have led WYDOT to focus on improving key intersections before widening Teton County’s highways. I’d prefer that 22 and 390 don’t get expanded to four lanes everywhere. If we don’t want WYDOT to widen the roads we’ve got to get on the bus. What WYDOT says is true: We’ve got a lot of cars on the roadway. We’ve got to keep working with WYDOT and push for the best outcome in terms of community character and safety.

Consistent public policy and prudent fiscal management from the county commission.

The comprehensive plan was written in such a way that, once codified, it will not affect landowners’ property rights. New land-development laws modeled on the comprehensive plan’s policies may change what could potentially go on a lot, but they won’t alter base land development rights property owners possess. I don’t agree that the comprehensive plan comes into conflict with private property rights.

Supports renewal of the tax. Its revenues support important services such as the START bus and the pathways. I do think the expenditures by the Travel and Tourism Board have been very wise. At the same time, the county shouldn’t grow too dependent on a revenue source dependent on a popular vote every four years. You can’t invest long-term based on an election risk.

Highways will be made wider unless local drivers change their habits. WYDOT will use its historic experience with roads and traffic and its estimate of the most efficient way to use public resources to accommodate traffic growth. County leaders must find ways to shift from single-occupancy vehicles, and cars in general, to other forms of transportation. That will require dedicated funding sources and a high level of community engagement.

The critical and time-sensitive need to pass clear and effective land development regulations to implement the 2012 comprehensive plan. Good LDRs will support our core community values: conservation, growth management, quality of life and a rational business environment. I have hands-on working knowledge of the old and new comprehensive plan. I can move us through the adoption of critical new LDRs to help us achieve a vision that works for all and respects our special setting.

Commissioners must respect landowners and work within the framework of their property rights if the comprehensive plan’s policies are to be enacted. Land ownership comes with a bundle of rights, and working with landowners to plan and zone for open space within those rights is the way we have to go.

Tourism will increase because of larger economic and vacation trends. The county must prepare by looking to the growth management section of the comprehensive plan, which lays out two boundaries: how many low-paying jobs the county wants and how much the people creating those jobs should contribute to housing their workers. I worry that too much of the lodging tax goes toward promoting tourism and too little toward helping the community those tourists enjoy.

I don’t think right now we’re ready to expand the roadways. Continued development will further strain the county’s highway network, however, and residents may eventually balk at the hassles that creates. Development patterns influence road expansion, and county leaders must consider that. Encouraging other modes of transportation will only get the county so far. Most summer visitation is going to be in cars. It’s going to be hard to get tourists out of their cars.

Finding comprehensive transportation solutions, including roads, pathways and the bus system. The comprehensive plan calls for town and county leaders to discourage the use of singleoccupancy vehicles — automobiles occupied by the driver alone. Public transit might prove an important tool in bringing that about.

Any regulation you put in place pretty much takes away somebody’s rights somewhere. It has to be balanced. Of the new land development regulations that will result from the 2012 Jackson/ Teton County Comprehensive Plan, private property rights must trump the document’s vision if the two conflict. The comprehensive plan is a set of goals and guidelines. It’s not a mandate. It’s something we’ll try to achieve.

Supports renewal of the tax. Growth in the tourism industry is inevitable. Whether the lodging tax is in place or not, tourists are going to come. The tax benefits both those in the hospitality business and the community in which those businesses are located.

I don’t think Highway 22 needs to be four lanes; I just think it needs a turning lane. Several locations, such as at the former Puzzleface Ranch, Emily’s Pond and Pratt Lane, could use a turning lane. Adding additional travel lanes isn’t a priority. If it takes an extra two or three minutes to get from 390 into town, I’m comfortable with that. I’m willing to give up some speed for a smaller roadway.

Addressing comprehensive workforce housing needs and challenges is one of the most important topics — but not the only priority issue. I am not running with an agenda or an ax to grind.

Balance must be maintained between property rights and new land development regulations. I think some folks — and I’m not one of them — perceive a big conflict there. The fact of the matter is, they’re not at odds. My perspective is, we’re fortunate in this community in that we have sort of a social contract, if you will, to collaborate and make a plan. At the end of that process good people with good intentions can maintain that balance.

The lodging tax in general is a good idea. I voted in favor of it will do so again.

I’d hope we could forestall if not outright avoid five-lane highways on 390 and 22. The county’s residents must engage themselves to arrive at a solution, but even then expansion may be impossible to prevent. WYDOT is charged with maintaining certain levels of service. I don’t doubt ... that five lanes, or expansion, is what falls out. Transit may be one way to put that off for the time being. The community’s going to have assess what values it wants to preserve, because WYDOT’s got its mandate.

The people. That’s what I think has been missing from commission discussions. County government should and must advance for the needs of the least monied, most vulnerable members of the community.

There are clear and necessary limits on the rights of a landowner to use his property to his liking. It would be nice if everybody would play nice and not do things to hurt neighbors. But that is not a realistic expectation, hence the need for regulations. We don’t want to take property rights away from people through rules and regulations. But it comes back to the question of “Should we have regulations?” I can’t imagine anyone wants to live in a community without regulations.

Workers are helped by the lodging tax. It’s not adding jobs, it’s extending jobs. The tax keeps workers on the job further into the shoulder seasons. Teton County enjoys the highest distribution of lodging tax funds to its residents’ direct benefit. Thanks to Clarene Law, who fought for that in the Legislature, Jackson and Teton County keep 40 percent of the revenue to offset visitor impacts and supplement their general funds. All other counties in the state must use 90 percent of lodging tax revenue for marketing.

I really believe the comprehensive plan basically says it’s our responsibility to fund the alternative modes of transportation. If the county continues to embrace tourism as a major part of its economy, the workers tourists require will need to be housed nearer to town. As we’re promoting for people to come into Jackson, we’re making a real comprehensive push for tourism that puts traffic on the road. The thing you can control is how to house the workers.

Developing alternatives to the five-lane build-outs of Highways 22 and 390. That will require partnering closely with the Wyoming Department of Transportation as it develops transportation goals for the county. Doing so will lead to solutions more creative than simply widening roads.

Property rights are a core value, foundational in this whole process. It’s a given in our comp plan. We’ve outlined goals or policies we want to see accomplished but not to ever sacrifice property rights. Though it may not be possible to uphold this goal without fail, I would maintain it to the best of my abilities. If a property right is sacrificed, it would have to be a last resort and a very special situation. It’s a matter of priorities, and property rights would be the first priority.

Hopes the 2 percent lodging tax will be renewed. Tourism is critical to Jackson Hole’s economy, and by extending that part of the economy through the year the tax helps workers and employers. The intent of the lodging tax is to bring folks here in the shoulder and winter season, which it has been successful at over the past four years.

I disagree with proposed conclusions of a five-lane highway and would like to encourage WYDOT to broaden its arsenal of transportation solutions. Transit will play a key role in easing the county’s traffic woes, and free fares might be an important component of that. Many similar communities offer fare-free services, and if re-elected I would follow up on past discussions into the feasibility of such an amenity in Jackson Hole.

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St. John’s Medical Center Board of Trustees Four seats open; four-year term Seven candidates, nonpartisan Joe Albright (Incumbent) Susan Crosser Barbara Herz (Incumbent) Frank Lyons Liz Masek (Incumbent) Dina Mishev Michael Tennican (Incumbent) –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The race for four seats on St. John’s Medical Center’s board of trustees has turned out to be one of the most heated in the valley this fall. Seven candidates are competing in the race, including four incumbents and three challengers. The most divisive candidate thus far has been Susan Crosser, who filed for the race out of concern about how the hospital is being run. She has railed against trustees for not being transparent and for “systemic” problems within the organization. Among other things, Crosser, 58, has cited the hospital’s overbudget expansion project and trustees’ decision to pay departed Chief Executive Pam Maples $25,000 a month for consulting services they never had the chance to use for eight months after she left in 2011. A political action committee dubbed Our Best Medical Center PAC was formed by Bill Weiss and Brandon Ryan and has been running advertisements against Crosser by promoting the other six candidates. Incumbent Michael Tennican, the current chairman of the board, is running again. He has a background in finance and corporate strategy that he says has been helpful in guiding the hospital through the past few years. Tennican, 77, believes that while St. John’s faces obstacles in the form of health care reform and competition from other providers, the hospital is on

a good trajectory. He was initially appointed to his seat in 2009, retained it in the 2010 election and was chairman by the time Maples left her chief executive post with the lucrative consulting contract. Tennican is joined in the race by fellow incumbent Barbara Herz, a retired economist and the longest-serving member of the board. She was first elected in 2006. Although the hospital has been through some tough times over the years, Herz believes trustees have “gotten it right.” Herz, 72, cited her opposition to privatizing the public nonprofit hospital when that was an issue several years ago. She also points to her more recent work to keep quality of care up and prices down in the midst of changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act. Joe Albright, a retired journalist and the thirdgeneration owner of Flat Creek Ranch, also is seeking re-election. Like Tennican, he was appointed to the board in 2009 and then won his seat in an election. Albright, 77, said he would like to continue to help the hospital navigate changes brought on by health care reform. Part of that means getting Medicaid coverage expanded in Wyoming to include poor single adults, he said. He and other trustees have advocated that. Albright also volunteered as an Health Care Navigator to help people sign up for coverage under the law. Getting more people in the community insured is important, he said. The fourth incumbent in the race is Liz Masek, who served as an advisor to the board until she was appointed to replace trustee Dr. George Poore, who in June stepped down to pursue employment with the hospital’s new surgical group. Masek, 55, has a background in patient advocacy and in public relations. She received a master’s

degree from Sarah Lawrence College in health advocacy and has previously served at St. John’s in the oncology department and also as a spiritual care counselor. Masek believes she can help bring the patient’s perspective to the board. She also supports the hospital becoming the center of health and wellness for the community. Challenger Dina Mishev also wants to bring the patient’s point of view to the board. This year marked her eighth anniversary of her being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Mishev has talked about making the hospital “a more pleasant experience” for patients and having it become more of a community resource. She has touted hospital programs such as “Walk With a Doc,” which allows members of the public to take a stroll outdoors with a physician, and would like to see more initiatives that help get the community involved. Mishev, 39, is editor of Jackson Hole Magazine and a columnist at the News&Guide, among other occupations. Frank Lyons, vice president at First Interstate Bank, also joined the race as a political newcomer. He believes his background in finance and housing could benefit St. John’s. Lyons, 54, has served on Habitat for Humanity’s finance committee and previously worked as a developer building inner-city housing in Illinois. Housing is something he thinks he could help St. John’s with. Voters will decide at the general election Nov. 4 who out of the field of seven will take the reins of St. John’s. The seven-member hospital board is charged with overseeing the public, nonprofit medical center. — By Ben Graham

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Obamacare

Quality and safety

Financial sustainability

Transparency

St. John’s is headed in the right direction. Finances are healthy, infection rates are low. Our volunteer board, our strong CEO and our dedicated staff are working as a team. My top priority would be to keep up the team’s momentum and not mess things up by turning back to some prior habits of board bickering and micromanaging. I will work to justify the support of the voters and those who have endorsed me.

Nearly 1,600 people in Teton County now have health insurance coverage because of Obamacare. I’m proud to say that I played a small part in that. I am the only trustee of any hospital in Wyoming who is trained and certified as a Health Care Navigator. One-on-one sessions with me and other certified Navigators will resume at the library in midNovember, offering uninsured people another chance to enroll. I also see that Obamacare has introduced new challenges. We have a more difficult time making accurate budgets in this time of changing regulations and uncertain insurance company reimbursement policies.

Excellent care in a hospital is built on two pillars: persistence and teamwork. Quality improves when everyone at St. John’s takes small steps to protect patients and when they repeat the same steps every shift, every day. Some simple examples: We cut the risk of hospital-caused infections by monitoring to ensure a rigorous hand-washing regime. We stress the importance of flu shots. We prevent postoperative blood clots in surgery patients through bloodthinning medications, compression stockings and getting the patients up and about. To avoid urinary tract infections, we make sure to remove catheters as soon as is medically justified.

How to keep St. John’s in the black? First, keep offering excellent patient care. Second, continue attracting the best doctors, nurses, nurse’s aides, lab technicians and administrators. Third, pay them well and provide good working conditions so they don’t quit. Fourth, purchase supplies and services efficiently. Fifth, keep hospital charges as low as possible so we don’t drive away potential patients. Sixth, keep steadily improving our plant and equipment. Seventh, think long and hard before launching any expansion of services that might lose money. Eighth, work cooperatively with the St. John’s Hospital Foundation to encourage philanthropic support.

Transparency is essential — most of the time. Our hospital succeeds by earning the community’s trust. We must be open about what we do, how successfully we do it, what we plan and what we spend. But openness is not our only imperative. We must also protect the privacy of our patients. And we must make sure our medical professionals have a secure environment in which to provide care. I believe we have struck a good balance recently.

My top priority would be to uphold and enforce the mission statement. Appropriate patient care must include referrals for the benefit of the patient and not the hospital or medical staff. Honesty and integrity means no more internal favoritism or intimidation. Teamwork should not include working together to cover up problems and violate standards. Ethical behavior should have closed the compromised operating room, not hidden the infection problem from staff and patients.

The incumbents have focused their attention on the potential lost revenue from decreased medicare reimbursements. Those reductions will occur if the hospital cannot meet particular standards of care. Their concern validates my experience that the hospital is not doing enough to raise the acceptable standard of care. St. John’s currently receives less in reimbursements than the average hospital in Wyoming and the nation. I’d like to explore the specifics about why our reimbursement level is already substantially lower than the norm.

As with any business in Teton County, the high cost of doing business drives the need for revenue. But with the hospital we are talking about people’s lives. We can’t let a desire for more revenue trump the primary focus: what we can do competently and professionally. Trying to justify hiding information from the community because one bad case can skew the data is not honest or ethical. We need a well-trained and supervised staff. Mistakes need to be acknowledged and used as learning opportunities. Professionalism needs to replace complacency.

The incumbents have saddled the community with an unwarranted expansion when what was needed was one larger operating room, renovation of some older areas, more day care space and staff housing. It was board ego that pushed the proposal forward while never acknowledging that the promise in the specific purpose excise tax proposal that the expansion would pay for itself would not be kept. But this error on the part of the board does not and cannot ever justify offering incompetent care in order to generate revenue. How to solve? It’s going to be a challenge.

If you are making good decisions for the benefit of the community, why so much emphasis on privacy? Choosing to hide deliberations results out of concern over what the community will think. If you can’t make a good argument in an open forum, you shouldn’t be able to hide that deficiency. The constant emphasis on “collegiality,” “positive thinking” and “moving forward” isn’t honest or ethical. Problems exist, and denying them won’t make them go away. The board needs to step up and acknowledge the hospital’s limitations honestly.

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St. John’s Medical Center Board of Trustees

Herz

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Tennican

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Obamacare

Quality and safety

Financial sustainability

Transparency

Assure that St. John’s provides the best possible service at the lowest manageable price. That’s my focus as an economist and a trustee. It’s what people seek. And how St. John’s will cope with economic and health care changes — including pressures from health care reformers, private insurers and patients — to do more with less. We’ll need to concentrate on improving health, not just treating disease, listen to learn and respond to patient and community needs, work to provide truly excellent care (which requires keeping and recruiting first-rate doctors and nurses) and manage our finances to limit costs and preserve sustainability.

With America spending 18 percent of GDP for poorer health results than countries paying half that much, Obamacare and private insurers press hospitals and doctors to “do more with less” and “keep people out of hospitals.” This poses challenges but opens opportunities. Medicare payments will be reduced, but federal and private insurers will increasingly reward quality service, including efforts to prevent and catch health problems quickly. Obamacare’s subsidies for private insurance and Medicaid expansion, if implemented here, can help patients seek care early and reduce our uncompensated care.

Job One. It begins with deciding what services St. John’s can do well versus which patients should be transferred. (We should be cautious about offering rarely used services.) Performing our services safely and well requires: focusing on patients; practicing evidencebased medicine (as in the WHO Safe Surgery checklist, which I encouraged and St. John’s now employs); monitoring results (listening to patients, watching infection rates and other metrics, and publishing key ones); forthrightly tackling issues when we have them; building a strong culture of safety; and promoting community wellness.

We’re financially strong yet vulnerable. Hospitals face economic change, health care reform, shorter hospital stays, resource constraints and, for us, seasonal fluctuations. Some say 1 in 5 hospitals will close. We’re determined St. John’s will thrive. We’re increasing productivity and limiting price hikes. We’re enlarging services (adding physicians with wider skills, building ties with the University of Utah) and extending our reach. Facing major unpaid care, we need Medicaid expansion in Wyoming, and uninsured citizens can help St. John’s and themselves by buying inexpensive but solid insurance through Wyoming’s Exchange.

I truly believe in and advocate openness. Transparency fosters public accountability, helps raise issues and builds pressure to resolve them. In the end sunshine, fairly treated, helps people understand the hospital’s situation and builds confidence in its strategy and performance. Yet competing concerns also require consideration: patient privacy (enforced by law), sensitive personnel discussions, and legal issues in competitive strategy, contract negotiation and other legal matters. These impose some limits on transparency.

I don’t have an agenda, so my top priority would be learning about the business of the hospital and finding ways to be a positive force on the board. I think one of the most crucial things facing the board over the next few years may be replacing the CEO. Other things that may need to be addressed are housing for employees and staff, child care expansion and other facilities and services expansion.

Quality outcome from treatment is one key to future success. It is my understanding that good performance will result in rewards under the Affordable Care Act. The drawback to the government reward system is that it does not take into account patient behavior. The hospital and doctors are only part of the outcome formula. If the patient doesn’t modify harmful behavior, the hospital could be penalized when it has no control of the outcome.

Continuing education for staff and possibly rewarding staff for outcomes with regard to quality and safety may be ways to reach the desired result.

I don’t believe there is an imminent threat to sustainability. That said, the hospital could benefit from attracting more patients who leave the area for treatment that is available at St. John’s. Expanding services should be well thought out and studied from a community need standpoint as well as an economic standpoint. I think operational efficiencies are more likely to result in reduced quality and safety. I would much rather see a slightly inefficient operation that is extremely safe and of the highest possible quality.

As a hospital district established by the Teton County commissioners, St. John’s accepts tax district revenue. Therefore, the district falls under Wyoming State Statute concerning Open Meetings 16-4-403: “All meetings of the governing body of an agency are public meetings, except as otherwise provided.” Patient privacy is of course protected, but not discussions about strategic plans. It is therefore my opinion, that with regard to planning, the information should be public.

Ensure the highest quality of care, which means exceptional patient care. Strategically think and plan in an evolving health care landscape to meet the needs of our community. Collaborate with our community and regional constituencies to address wellness for better population health. Learn, educate and communicate needs and priorities with all invested in the health care of our community.

The ACA is forcing the system to change from a volume-based pay scale (fee for service) to one of value (outcomes achieved per dollar spent). Medicare reimbursements (a huge part of health care costs) will be dramatically altered, and we must make sure our delivery, measurements and reimbursements are aligned. This is good for every aspect of care, not just Medicare. Our infrastructure focus on quality across the continuum serves to ensure that each patient who enters our hospital or is cared for by our physicians receives the best possible care for every dollar spent.

In the new health care paradigm, delivering better care with fewer resources does not mean quality has to suffer. Delivering better care more efficiently achieves both. We measure outcomes through metrics, which have been designed to give us feedback that not only reflects what kind of job we’re doing but how we can improve. An example would be data collection that tells us how and when medical errors occur. If there is a lapse in communication that leads to a flawed decision we can follow why that lapse occurred and what we need to do to remedy it.

Due to unsustainable costs of health care, the forced transition from volume to value entails taking on financial risk in a constantly changing environment. Hospitals are signing performance-based contracts, an agreement where they are paid a fixed-dollar amount for care. For hospitals to make positive margins and remain secure in this market, they need to allocate resources to maximize quality of care per dollar spent. Trustees as stewards of the hospital must be educated and understand management strategies for addressing this ongoing change.

The hospital is part of a larger community, not separate from it. We are a vital link in the health and welfare of our citizens and should work in full transparency and collaboration to address needs and prioritize delivery of care. Only under these circumstances can we provide the best possible care efficiently. Otherwise we will be duplicating, wasting and ultimately failing to protect and sustain the health of our community.

Be a voice on the board for patients and the valley’s younger generations while making the end-to-end experience for St. John’s patients as seamless and stress-free as possible, starting even before their treatment does. To empower patients to make the most informed decision they can about their care, I want to provide them with as much easily accessible information about their upcoming treatment and stay in the hospital as possible, including quality and safety metrics.

Under the Affordable Care Act the financial success of hospitals is predicated on treating as many insured patients as possible. We can best prepare for the reduced Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements that are part of ACA, as well as other changes mandated by the act, by working toward lowering the rate of uninsured people in our community. I got my insurance through the Health Care Marketplace with the assistance of a Health Care Navigator. We should continue to expand our Health Care Navigator collaboration with Teton County Library.

Well-trained and excellent staff members are the key to quality and safety at the hospital. To ensure quality and safe care, St. John’s should recognize excellence in employees across all departments and (1) reward these employees (2) facilitate a work environment/situation that keeps exemplary employees at St. John’s and () put these employees in leadership/mentoring roles.

I think efficiency is key to any business’ financial sustainability. So is having the trust and respect of the community it does business in. I don’t support St. John’s seeking financial stability by attracting more patients with slick marketing campaigns or by adding unnecessary services that patients can get elsewhere. New patients are key to the medical center’s financial future, and it needs to attract more patients by operating efficiently, safely and with the trust and respect of the community.

I don’t think transparency and getting things done are mutually exclusive. Also there’s getting things done and getting things that best serve this community done. I think transparency can ensure the hospital board does the latter rather than merely the former.

My top priority for St. John’s is to continue to improve the quality and safety of patient care. And we have a number of initiatives underway to monitor the quality of services we presently provide and identify opportunities for improvement. However, I also place a high priority on identifying new community health and wellness needs that we potentially could meet. An example is enhanced local coverage by cardiology specialists. Finally, if St. John’s is to survive as a vital provider of local health and wellness services, we must place a high priority on strengthening the hospital’s longterm financial viability.

St. John’s is affected by potential reductions in reimbursements for federally insured patients and for specific adverse events, e.g., readmissions and hospital-acquired infections. The ACA also mandates the use of electronic patient records but offsets the costs presuming we can comply. The ACA provides federal support for an expansion of Medicaid, reducing the number of uninsured patients and the amount of unreimbursed care that hospitals provide. But Wyoming’s political leaders have thus far refused to expand Medicaid. St. John’s Board has urged them to change. Nonetheless, even with Medicaid expansion, St. John’s must continue to stress efficiency and cost reduction.

St. John’s has long had committees and protocols in place to monitor and improve patient quality and safety. A summary of recent initiatives can be found on the hospital website, along with a summary of recent patient safety and satisfaction results. Additional quality and monitoring initiatives are being aided by the hiring of a director of quality and patient safety and by sharpening the focus of an existing board-medical staff joint committee. Improved quality and safety measures will be forwarded to the board for approval in coming months. Results will be reported regularly to the board and to the public.

The board will continue to work with the administration and medical staff leadership to strike the proper balance between community health and wellness needs and the scope of services St. John’s can provide economically and safely. In addition, the board will continue to encourage and monitor operational efficiency. Despite additional costs and despite price increases well below national averages, our collaborative efforts have produced strong financial results in recent years. A growing recognition of the quality and scope of services available at the hospital will help attract new patients.

St. John’s Trustees work to ensure that the hospital functions in the best interests of our community in part by holding board meetings that are open to the public, encouraging comments from attendees and voting only in public session. As in the recent updating of the hospital’s strategic plan, special public meetings may be called to allow extended community input on specific issues. Nonetheless, trustees are obliged to keep certain matters confidential, most notably patient information. Wyoming’s open meeting laws are consistent in providing exceptions and allowing certain matters to be discussed in executive sessions.

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Re-elect JOE ALBRIGHT

Clerk of District Court

HOSPITAL TRUSTEE

Four-year term

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Anne Comeaux (D) Debbie Hassler (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The race for District Court clerk pits two court employees and their records against each other. Republican Debbie Hassler, deputy court clerk, is positioning herself as the candidate of experience, while Democrat Anne Comeaux, director of the supervised court treatment program, is positioning herself as the candidate of initiative. The job has little to do with political parties. Most of the court clerk’s responsibilities are spelled out in Wyoming statutes. The court clerk is the custodian of court records for all cases that come through the District Court, which include felony criminal cases, high-ticket lawsuits, probate cases, and divorce and child custody suits. Hassler has Hassler worked in the clerk’s office for 17 years. She said she is the best choice because she can provide continuity with the past and has experience with the way the courts run. She plans no changes for the court’s systems aside from those already mandated by the Wyoming Supreme Court. It is those mandated changes, including implementing the ability to file cases and access court records online, that Hassler said make continuity so important. She has worked on the early stages with retiring clerk Dee Mahoney and has said she understands what Mahoney has in mind for future imple-

mentation. “I wanted to do this because Dee has started the ball rolling on some really important things, especially the upcoming changes in our technology,� she said, “and I want to be there to make sure things stay on the right track.� During a League of Women Voters candidate forum held Oct. 20 Hassler took aim at Comeaux, saying voters should choose Hassler’s record over that of someone who hasn’t spent “one day� in the district court office. In response Comeaux said she has run two programs during the past 11 years that operate under the auspices of the District Court office: the Victim Services office and the Supervised Treatment Program. Comeaux drew attention to her record with technology upgrades, including two during her time in the treatment court. She said she has been talking Comeaux to clerks and other court system players throughout the state since the day she announced her candidacy, and she believes the job is one to which she can easily adjust. “There’s so many reasons I want to do this,� Comeaux said. “It’s not one of the elections that gets the most attention, but I think it’s one of the offices that has the broadest impact on the public, so I think it’s a great thing to have a conversation about that office.� Comeaux said she would focus on keeping court processes and access clear to the public, smoothly integrating technology and finding ways to refine court access and public service. — Emma Breysse

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Teton County Assessor Four-year term Two candidates Andy Cavallaro (D) Dawn Johnson (R – incumbent) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Though both major political parties are running a candidate for Teton County assessor, the real differences between the two are their levels of experience and of education. The incumbent, Republican candidate Dawn Johnson, has more than a decade of experience in the assessor’s office and a diploma from Jackson Hole High School. Her opponent, Democrat Andy Cavallaro, has a secondary education degree and state certification in real estate appraisal, but no experience as an assessor. Johnson said one quality recommending her for four more years Cavallaro in the position is that she won’t need to learn how to do the job. “I believe county residents ... prefer to have someone in here who isn’t going to waste time on a learning curve,” Johnson said. Johnson “You’re not going to have any downtime, any learning curve with me. I’m going to hit the ground running.” The learning curve for new assessors, Johnson said, is “massive.” The challenges of the position don’t end even after an assessor learns how to do the job, she said. But the work is rewarding. “It’s challenging,” she said. “It’s certainly not easy, no question about it. But I get satisfaction knowing it’s done fairly and properly. “I absolutely love my job,” Johnson said. “I find it extremely fulfilling, in that you get to serve the community. “The people that pay my paycheck are friends and neighbors and people of Teton County.” Johnson said she doesn’t think that her opponent would be able to do a better job. “There’s always somebody out there who thinks they can do a job better than who’s in the position,” she said. Cavallaro has never held any elected office, but he said his other qualifications more than compensate for that. “I don’t think there’s going to be a big learning process at all,” Cavallaro said. “There will be a bit of an adjustment for myself and the staff, but I have a background in this.” Cavallaro will need to become more familiar with relevant state statutes and to learn the computer software used by Wyoming assessors. “I don’t think anyone walks into a new job knowing every piece about it,” he said. Cavallaro taught high school and worked at the Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center and Red Top Meadows before starting his appraisal business in 2009, The skills he learned in those jobs are ideally suited for the position he See ASSESSOR on 12

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Teton County Coroner Four-year term Two candidates

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We support Jim Darwiche because he is the candidate who will be most effective in Cheyenne. Jim is a family man, entrepreneur, business and community leader. He understands the needs of our community and is a proven negotiator and leader who can effectively assist our delegation in representing Teton County. Please support us in voting for Jim Darwiche on November 4th.

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– Senator Leland Cristensen, Former Senator Grant Larson, Representative Keith Gingery, Former Senator Clarene Law, Jim Darwiche, Representative Marti Halverson, Representative Ruth Ann Petroff (out of town when picture was taken)

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Dr. Brent Blue (D) Russell Nelson (R) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------––– In the race for Teton County coroner, voters will decide what kind of expertise they think is best to investigate valley deaths. Republican candidate Russell Nelson and Democrat Brent Blue have touted their qualifications throughout the campaign season: Nelson as a forensic anthropologist and Blue as a general and emergency physician. Each has challenged the other on his expertise. Blue has suggested that Nelson’s anthropological knowledge is overly specialized, and Nelson has suggested that Blue’s need to run Nelson a full-time practice will keep him from devoting the time he should to the coroner’s job. Wyoming statute states that each county will elect a coroner to investigate unattended deaths within his jurisdiction. An unattended death is one that does not occur at a hospital or under the supervision of a physician. A coroner is charged with identifying the deceased, determining the cause of death and notifying the family and the public. Whenever the death is suspicious the coroner’s office also works with law enforcement to investigate the case and determine whether a crime has occurred. Most coroner cases in Teton County are outdoor accidents or natural deaths in a home. While state law does not require that a coroner have any medical

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seeks, Cavallaro said. “The two skill sets I really have are valuing property and being a really good communicator,” he said. “Those are basically the two things that office really needs.” Cavallaro said that in his roles as a teacher and as a therapeutic worker he valued helping others. He is drawn to the assessor’s office to regain that sense, he said. “As an appraiser you’re doing a service for people, but you’re not making the world a better place,” he said.

expertise, Blue and Nelson do, and they have stated that they believe a coroner should have that knowledge. Blue — who faced a primary challenger from Dave Hodges, a sheriff ’s deputy and, since 2008, deputy coroner — is running on a platform of wanting to raise the quality of the coroner’s office. He believes his experience as a physician will do that. “It’s important to me to bring up the standard of the coroner’s office,” he said, “and I think that takes bringing in a medical professional.” Blue believes his experience is broader than Nelson’s, particularly when it comes to working with families. He suggested during a candidate forum Oct. 23 that Nelson’s expertise Blue is too narrow for the job. Blue has used the headless body found near Mosquito Creek in September 2013 as an example of where his knowledge might prove more useful. The death, initially investigated as a possible homicide, was ruled a suicide after an autopsy revealed the deceased had advanced cancer. Blue suggested at the beginning of his campaign that he would have been able to catch the cancer much earlier, without the aid of a pathologist. Nelson also is running on a platform that doing the work of the coroner’s office requires professional knowledge. He has worked for 20 years as a forensic anthropologist, a job that consists of analyzing and identifying See CORONER on 13

Working as the assessor, on the other hand, “seems like a good way for me to contribute the skills I have back to the Jackson Hole community which has given so much to me over the last 15 years,” he said. Though he is a Democrat, Cavallaro said he hopes to attract voters from across the aisle. “I’m going to continue to reach out to the Republican side,” he said. “I am running as a Democrat, but I think this is a job that’s not really about political affiliation. It’s more about competency than political affiliation.” — Michael Polhamus

“My leadership experience and extensive community involvement give me a unique perspective into the opportunities and challenges facing Teton County. I have served on numerous boards and committees on a county, state and national level but it is my 32 years of advocacy for the people of our community that qualifies me for this office. I am asking for your vote so I can continue to ensure your voice is heard when decisions that affect our community are made.”

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House District 23 Two-year term Two candidates Jim Darwiche (R) Andy Schwartz (D) –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Democrat Andy Schwartz and Republican Jim Darwiche are vying to replace longtime state Rep. Keith Gingery as the representative of House District 23. Darwiche has said he intends to bring greater local control and less taxation to his district. Schwartz has campaigned on his ability to work well with people of dissimilar political views. District 23 covers most of Teton County, save Wilson, Hoback and the town of Jackson. In addition to sharing a history of local volunteerism and political experience, Darwiche and Schwartz own and operate their own businesses. Darwiche is a developer who is building a new hotel in downtown Jackson. Schwartz owned and operated Broadway Toys and Togs on Town Square and now owns Altitude, a women’s clothing boutique on the

square, with his wife. Schwartz and Darwich have served concurrently on the Teton County Board of Commissioners. Darwiche was in office for one fouryear term, and Schwartz was elected three times. If he wins the race for House District 23 Schwartz will need to work with a Legislature composed almost entirely of Republicans. But he said there are numerous examples of how he can work effectively in spite of political differences. For example, he said, he sits Darwiche on the state’s Environmental Quality Council, a group that reviews decisions made by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, among other tasks. Schwartz was appointed to the position by Wyoming’s Republican governor, Matt Mead. “It’s the person, not the party, that determines effectiveness,�

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human remains based on the evidence left on the body, especially the skeleton, and applying it in a law enforcement context. “I agree that the coroner should have medical knowledge,� Nelson said. “I also have knowledge of forensics, and because I have that kind of qualification I won’t have to send stuff out of the county as often.�

Schwartz has said. Schwartz said he believes climate change and evolution are real phenomena. While Darwiche has said he does not consider evidence of global warming “solid, clear science,� he said people should behave in many ways as though it is solid, for the sake of the environment and of human beings. “We can do exactly what globalwarming believers want us to do without taking an issue and dividing our community and our place,� Schwartz Darwiche said. “I don’t believe divisive issues can get us anywhere as a society or a community,� he said. “We have to use clean energy. We should protect the environment. We have to make sure our water and air remain clean, not only for us, but for future generations.� Darwiche took a similar stance

Nelson’s only work would be in the coroner’s office, which he said puts him at an advantage over Blue, who runs a full-time medical office. Nelson also has referenced the Mosquito Creek investigation as well as the recent discovery of Christian Polly’s remains on Snow King Mountain as examples of ways his expertise could help the coroner’s office. Eventually it was discovered that scavenger activity, not human action, removed the head from the rest of the Mosquito Creek body. Nelson

on the science behind the theory of evolution. Children should have a quality education that eventually allows them to make up their own minds on questions such as those surrounding scientific theories, he said. In the meantime the potential for such inquiries to divide families and communities means schools shouldn’t overemphasize their importance. “Would you want your kid to grow up,� Darwiche said, “and not believe in his father’s and his grandfather’s religion? Give him the tools to live by, and when he grows up you leave it up to him. “We need to strengthen the relationship between families, between parents and their children,� he said. “Good societies are built on trust and love, and not distrust.� Darwiche has said repeatedly that only a Republican legislator can effectively represent House District 23, since nearly every other Wyoming legislator is of the same party. — Michael Polhamus

is trained to recognize the signs of scavenger activity on human remains, he said. He also would be able to personally perform an identification from dental records, which is how Polly’s remains were identified, he said. Blue or Nelson will replace Kiley Campbell in the coroner’s office. Campbell declined to run for re-election this summer because he is leaving the valley. — Emma Breysse

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GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MARKING A BALLOT TO VOTE: FILL IN THE OVAL TO THE LEFT OF THE CANDIDATE/ PROPOSITION OF YOUR CHOICE.

USE ONLY THE SPECIAL PEN OR PENCIL PROVIDED IF YOU MAKE AN ERROR PLEASE RETURN YOUR BALLOT TO THE ELECTION OFFICIAL AND REQUEST A NEW BALLOT

*The names of candidates will be rotated on the official ballots and will not always appear in the order indicated on these samples.

General Ballot style for Precincts: 1-4 North Jackson, and 1-11 Indian Trails

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER: 1. To vote for a person whose name is printed on the ballot, completely DARKEN THE OVAL immediately to the left of the person for whom you desire to vote for. 2. To vote for a person whose name is not printed on the ballot, WRITE IN THE NAME in the blank space provided for write-ins AND DARKEN THE OVAL immediately to the left of the person's name. 3. If you make an error, return your ballot to a precinct official and obtain a new one. 4. Use a black ball point pen only.

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JOSEPH S. PORAMBO

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RICHARD BRUBAKER LIBERTARIAN

LELAND CHRISTENSEN

JIM WHALEN

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TETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 TRUSTEE

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DON WILLS

MARK NEWCOMB

INDEPENDENT

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SMOKEY RHEA

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BEN ELLIS

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

ANDY CAVALLARO DEMOCRAT

REYNOLDS POMEROY

DAWN E. JOHNSON REPUBLICAN

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ED MURRAY

PAUL VOGELHEIM

KIT CARSON

PAUL PERRY

JENNIFER YOUNG

SCOTT ANDERSON

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CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT

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CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR - RURAL

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STATE AUDITOR 4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

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PROPOSED CONSERVATION DISTRICT TAX: Shall the Teton County Commissioners impose a Conservation District Tax not to exceed one (1) mill on each one dollar ($1.00) of assessed valuation on all property within Teton County for the purpose of providing soil, water, wildlife and other conservation programs as directed by the Teton Conservation District?

JOE LARROW

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SECRETARY OF STATE

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KEITH GINGERY

COUNTY ASSESSOR

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PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A: The adoption of this amendment would allow the Governor to appoint nonresidents of the State to serve as University of Wyoming Trustees. Not more than twenty percent (20%) of the appointed Trustees may be nonresidents of the State. The Governor would not be required to appoint any nonresident as a Trustee. All appointments to the Board of Trustees are with the advice and consent of the Wyoming Senate.

JOHN STENNIS DON FRANK

JIM DARWICHE REPUBLICAN

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

DEE COZZENS

BOB LENZ

SHERRY L. DAIGLE REPUBLICAN

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

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JACKSON TOWN COUNCIL

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4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

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MATT MEAD

INSTRUCTIONS: To vote FOR or AGAINST a proposed Constitutional Amendment, or other ballot proposition, darken the oval adjacent to the proposition marked FOR or AGAINST.

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MAYOR TOWN OF JACKSON

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BARBARA HERZ

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JOE ALBRIGHT SUSAN CROSSER

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MICHAEL TENNICAN Shall JUSTICE E. JAMES BURKE be retained in office?

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JILLIAN BALOW

DINA MISHEV

RUSSELL NELSON

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MIKE CEBALLOS

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ELIZABETH C. MASEK

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CURT GOTTSHALL

FRANK LYONS

BRENT "DOC" BLUE

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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

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NON-PARTISAN PROPOSED LODGING TAX: Shall Teton County Wyoming be authorized to continue to collect a two percent (2%) Lodging Tax that will be used in the following manner: Sixty percent (60%) for local travel and tourism promotion; thirty percent (30%) for visitor impact services, which includes, but is not limited to, provision of vehicle parking, public transportation, public restrooms, pedestrian and bicycle pathways, museums and other displays; and ten percent (10%) to the general funds of Teton County and the Town of Jackson?

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SANDY SHUPTRINE

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CHARLIE HARDY DEMOCRAT

MIKE ENZI

REPUBLICAN

JOSEPH S. PORAMBO

INDEPENDENT

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NATALIA MACKER

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MARTI HALVERSON REPUBLICAN

DEE COZZENS

PAUL PERRY

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CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT

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PAUL VOGELHEIM SCOTT ANDERSON

DEMOCRAT

DEBBIE HASSLER

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REPUBLICAN

KIT CARSON

PROPOSED CONSERVATION DISTRICT TAX: Shall the Teton County Commissioners impose a Conservation District Tax not to exceed one (1) mill on each one dollar ($1.00) of assessed valuation on all property within Teton County for the purpose of providing soil, water, wildlife and other conservation programs as directed by the Teton Conservation District?

ANNE COMEAUX

INDEPENDENT

ED MURRAY

AGAINST AMENDMENT A

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FOR AMENDMENT A

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REYNOLDS POMEROY

SECRETARY OF STATE

SANDY SHUPTRINE

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REPUBLICAN

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BOB LUCAS

A

DAWN E. JOHNSON

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

INDEPENDENT

DAVID C. ADAMS

DEMOCRAT

SMOKEY RHEA

DON WILLS

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

MATT MEAD

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A: The adoption of this amendment would allow the Governor to appoint nonresidents of the State to serve as University of Wyoming Trustees. Not more than twenty percent (20%) of the appointed Trustees may be nonresidents of the State. The Governor would not be required to appoint any nonresident as a Trustee. All appointments to the Board of Trustees are with the advice and consent of the Wyoming Senate.

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BEN ELLIS

ANDY CAVALLARO

LIBERTARIAN

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CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR - RURAL

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MARK NEWCOMB

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PETE GOSAR DEMOCRAT

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DONNA M. BAUR

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

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FOR LODGING TAX

SUSAN CROSSER

JANINE BAY TESKE

Write-in

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COUNTY

STATE

JOE ALBRIGHT

NO

JOE LARROW

Write-in

Write-in

MICHAEL TENNICAN

YES

KEITH GINGERY

SHERRY L. DAIGLE REPUBLICAN

COUNTY TREASURER

P

DANIEL CLYDE CUMMINGS

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1) VOTE

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RICHARD BRUBAKER

ELIZABETH C. MASEK

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

COUNTY CLERK

2 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

CYNTHIA LUMMIS REPUBLICAN

FRANK LYONS

TETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 TRUSTEE

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STATE REPRESENTATIVE HOUSE DISTRICT 22

DEMOCRAT

BARBARA HERZ

NO

REPUBLICAN

REPUBLICAN

2 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

PROPOSED LODGING TAX: Shall Teton County Wyoming be authorized to continue to collect a two percent (2%) Lodging Tax that will be used in the following manner: Sixty percent (60%) for local travel and tourism promotion; thirty percent (30%) for visitor impact services, which includes, but is not limited to, provision of vehicle parking, public transportation, public restrooms, pedestrian and bicycle pathways, museums and other displays; and ten percent (10%) to the general funds of Teton County and the Town of Jackson?

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN FOUR (4)

YES

JIM WHALEN

JILLIAN BALOW

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE

ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL DISTRICT TRUSTEE

Shall JUSTICE MICHAEL K. DAVIS be retained in office?

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

DEMOCRAT

JUSTICES OF WYOMING SUPREME COURT

DINA MISHEV

COUNTY SHERIFF

MIKE CEBALLOS

Write-in

42

Write-in

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

CURT GOTTSHALL

41

Write-in

NON-PARTISAN

Shall JUSTICE E. JAMES BURKE be retained in office?

REPUBLICAN

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

LIBERTARIAN

40

STEVE WEICHMAN

REPUBLICAN

Write-in

Write-in

LIBERTARIAN

JENNIFER YOUNG

Weed & Pest

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NON-PARTISAN

INSTRUCTIONS: To vote for Supreme Court Justices, darken the oval to vote YES or NO separatedly as to each Justice whose name appears on the ballot. Justices do not run against eachother.

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

MARK GORDON

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BRENT "DOC" BLUE

STATE AUDITOR

AGAINST CONSERVATION DISTRICT TAX

DEMOCRAT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

RUSSELL NELSON REPUBLICAN

CYNTHIA I. CLOUD

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR MARKING A BALLOT

GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014

TO VOTE: FILL IN THE OVAL TO THE LEFT OF THE CANDIDATE/ PROPOSITION OF YOUR CHOICE.

USE ONLY THE SPECIAL PEN OR PENCIL PROVIDED IF YOU MAKE AN ERROR PLEASE RETURN YOUR BALLOT TO THE ELECTION OFFICIAL AND REQUEST A NEW BALLOT

*The names of candidates will be rotated on the official ballots and will not always appear in the order indicated on these samples.

General Ballot style for Precincts: 1-2 Mid-East Jackson, 1-5 Mid-West Jackson, 1-6 Cottonwood Park, 1-8 East Jackson, and 1-9 West Jackson B

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER: 1. To vote for a person whose name is printed on the ballot, completely DARKEN THE OVAL immediately to the left of the person for whom you desire to vote for. 2. To vote for a person whose name is not printed on the ballot, WRITE IN THE NAME in the blank space provided for write-ins AND DARKEN THE OVAL immediately to the left of the person's name. 3. If you make an error, return your ballot to a precinct official and obtain a new one. 4. Use a black ball point pen only.

FEDERAL

STATE

COUNTY

UNITED STATES SENATOR

STATE TREASURER

COUNTY ATTORNEY

21

6 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

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4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

NON-PARTISAN

NON-PARTISAN

NON-PARTISAN

JUSTICES OF WYOMING SUPREME COURT

ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL DISTRICT TRUSTEE

PROPOSED LODGING TAX: Shall Teton County Wyoming be authorized to continue to collect a two percent (2%) Lodging Tax that will be used in the following manner: Sixty percent (60%) for local travel and tourism promotion; thirty percent (30%) for visitor impact services, which includes, but is not limited to, provision of vehicle parking, public transportation, public restrooms, pedestrian and bicycle pathways, museums and other displays; and ten percent (10%) to the general funds of Teton County and the Town of Jackson?

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN FOUR (4)

REGULAR TERM OF EIGHT (8) YEARS

SUSAN CROSSER

INSTRUCTIONS: To vote for Supreme Court Justices, darken the oval to vote YES or NO separatedly as to each Justice whose name appears on the ballot. Justices do not run against eachother.

BARBARA HERZ FRANK LYONS ELIZABETH C. MASEK

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

Shall JUSTICE E. JAMES BURKE be retained in office?

Write-in

Write-in

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

CURT GOTTSHALL INDEPENDENT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

MIKE CEBALLOS

Write-in

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JILLIAN BALOW

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE

REPUBLICAN

2 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

42

CYNTHIA LUMMIS

43

RICHARD BRUBAKER

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RICHARD GRAYSON

LIBERTARIAN

Write-in

A

DON FRANK

DONNA M. BAUR

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COUNTY ASSESSOR

Write-in

Write-in

ANDY CAVALLARO

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

DEMOCRAT

TETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 TRUSTEE

DEMOCRAT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

MATT MEAD

Write-in

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

COUNTY

PETE GOSAR

JOHN STENNIS

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A: The adoption of this amendment would allow the Governor to appoint nonresidents of the State to serve as University of Wyoming Trustees. Not more than twenty percent (20%) of the appointed Trustees may be nonresidents of the State. The Governor would not be required to appoint any nonresident as a Trustee. All appointments to the Board of Trustees are with the advice and consent of the Wyoming Senate.

BOB LENZ

DEMOCRAT

RUTH ANN PETROFF

STATE

JACKSON TOWN COUNCIL

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

2 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

VOTE EACH QUESTION

INSTRUCTIONS: To vote FOR or AGAINST a proposed Constitutional Amendment, or other ballot proposition, darken the oval adjacent to the proposition marked FOR or AGAINST.

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN TWO (2)

COUNTY TREASURER

Write-in

GOVERNOR

SARA FLITNER

Write-in

STATE REPRESENTATIVE HOUSE DISTRICT 16

Write-in

BALLOT PROPOSITIONS

REPUBLICAN

REPUBLICAN

CONSTITUTION

Write-in

2 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

SHERRY L. DAIGLE

LELAND CHRISTENSEN

DANIEL CLYDE CUMMINGS

Write-in

MAYOR TOWN OF JACKSON Write-in

MARK NOWLIN

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

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REPUBLICAN

Write-in

NO

REPUBLICAN

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

STATE SENATOR SENATE DISTRICT 17

DEMOCRAT

AGAINST LODGING TAX

Write-in

COUNTY CLERK

Write-in

41

FOR LODGING TAX

JOE ALBRIGHT

YES

JIM WHALEN

DEMOCRAT

MICHAEL TENNICAN

NO Shall JUSTICE MICHAEL K. DAVIS be retained in office?

COUNTY SHERIFF

E

LIBERTARIAN

DINA MISHEV

YES

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JOSEPH S. PORAMBO

REPUBLICAN

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REPUBLICAN

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STEVE WEICHMAN

REPUBLICAN

MIKE ENZI

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MARK GORDON

A

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CHARLIE HARDY

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4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

DAWN E. JOHNSON

REPUBLICAN

E

TETON COUNTY, STATE OF WYOMING

DISTRICT 1 PRECINCT 02

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FOR AMENDMENT A

REPUBLICAN

DEE COZZENS

SMOKEY RHEA

DON WILLS

BEN ELLIS

LIBERTARIAN

Write-in

DEMOCRAT

INDEPENDENT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

MARK NEWCOMB

PROPOSED CONSERVATION DISTRICT TAX: Shall the Teton County Commissioners impose a Conservation District Tax not to exceed one (1) mill on each one dollar ($1.00) of assessed valuation on all property within Teton County for the purpose of providing soil, water, wildlife and other conservation programs as directed by the Teton Conservation District?

JANINE BAY TESKE

CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT

DEMOCRAT

Write-in

AGAINST AMENDMENT A

JOE LARROW

KEITH GINGERY

DEMOCRAT

SECRETARY OF STATE

PAUL VOGELHEIM

ANNE COMEAUX

Write-in

PAUL PERRY

DEBBIE HASSLER

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

DEMOCRAT

REPUBLICAN

REPUBLICAN

ED MURRAY

REYNOLDS POMEROY

KIT CARSON

SCOTT ANDERSON

REPUBLICAN

Write-in

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

LIBERTARIAN

CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR - RURAL

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

INDEPENDENT

JENNIFER YOUNG

Write-in

BOB LUCAS

Write-in

Write-in

SANDY SHUPTRINE

Write-in

DAVID C. ADAMS

STATE AUDITOR 4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

COUNTY CORONER

VOTE BOTH SIDES

Write-in

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

CYNTHIA I. CLOUD

FOR CONSERVATION DISTRICT TAX AGAINST CONSERVATION DISTRICT TAX

CONSTITUTION

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

BRENT "DOC" BLUE

Write-in

VOTE BOTH SIDES

DEMOCRAT

RUSSELL NELSON

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER: 1. To vote for a person whose name is printed on the ballot, completely DARKEN THE OVAL immediately to the left of the person for whom you desire to vote for. 2. To vote for a person whose name is not printed on the ballot, WRITE IN THE NAME in the blank space provided for write-ins AND DARKEN THE OVAL immediately to the left of the person's name. 3. If you make an error, return your ballot to a precinct official and obtain a new one. 4. Use a black ball point pen only.

INSTRUCTIONS: To vote for Supreme Court Justices, darken the oval to vote YES or NO separatedly as to each Justice whose name appears on the ballot. Justices do not run against eachother.

JOE ALBRIGHT SUSAN CROSSER

COUNTY CORONER

CHARLIE HARDY

MARK GORDON

BRENT "DOC" BLUE

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

YES

DINA MISHEV

FOR LODGING TAX

Write-in

NO

MICHAEL TENNICAN

AGAINST LODGING TAX

DEMOCRAT

RUSSELL NELSON

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

INDEPENDENT

COUNTY ATTORNEY 4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

MIKE CEBALLOS

Write-in

DEMOCRAT

JILLIAN BALOW

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE 2 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

RICHARD GRAYSON

STEVE WEICHMAN

REPUBLICAN

REPUBLICAN

Write-in

Write-in

STATE SENATOR SENATE DISTRICT 17

DEMOCRAT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

CYNTHIA LUMMIS REPUBLICAN

4 YEAR TERM VOTE V OTE FOR ONE (1)

LIBERTARIAN

CONSTITUTION

KEITH GINGERY JOE LARROW

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COUNTY CLERK 4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

2 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

ANDY SCHWARTZ

STATE

SHERRY L. DAIGLE

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

COUNTY TREASURER

Write-in

PETE GOSAR

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

COUNTY

A

DEMOCRAT

MATT MEAD

DONNA M. BAUR

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

REPUBLICAN

DEMOCRAT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

DEE COZZENS

Write-in

Write-in

JIM DARWICHE

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

JANINE BAY TESKE

REPUBLICAN

M

DEMOCRAT

GOVERNOR

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

Write-in

STATE REPRESENTATIVE HOUSE DISTRICT 23

Write-in

Write-in

TETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 TRUSTEE

JIM WHALEN REPUBLICAN

Write-in

CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR - RURAL

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE (3)

DAVID C. ADAMS

S DON WILLS

BEN ELLIS

INDEPENDENT

COUNTY ASSESSOR

DEMOCRAT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

MARK NEWCOMB

Write-in

DEMOCRAT

SECRETARY OF STATE

SMOKEY RHEA

ANDY CAVALLARO

PAUL PERRY

DAWN E. JOHNSON

DEMOCRAT

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

DEMOCRAT

REPUBLICAN

ED MURRAY

REPUBLICAN

REYNOLDS POMEROY

REPUBLICAN

PAUL VOGELHEIM

JENNIFER YOUNG

SCOTT ANDERSON

Write-in

Write-in

LIBERTARIAN

CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT

REPUBLICAN

CONSTITUTION

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

INDEPENDENT

STATE AUDITOR

ANNE COMEAUX DEMOCRAT

DEBBIE HASSLER

Write-in

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

BOB LUCAS

SANDY SHUPTRINE

REPUBLICAN

Write-in

Write-in

Write-in

BALLOT PROPOSITIONS VOTE EACH QUESTION

INSTRUCTIONS: To vote FOR or AGAINST a proposed Constitutional Amendment, or other ballot proposition, darken the oval adjacent to the proposition marked FOR or AGAINST.

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A: The adoption of this amendment would allow the Governor to appoint nonresidents of the State to serve as University of Wyoming Trustees. Not more than twenty percent (20%) of the appointed Trustees may be nonresidents of the State. The Governor would not be required to appoint any nonresident as a Trustee. All appointments to the Board of Trustees are with the advice and consent of the Wyoming Senate. FOR AMENDMENT A

Write-in

AGAINST AMENDMENT A Write-in

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

KIT CARSON

S

Write-in

LIBERTARIAN

Write-in

Write-in

NO

Write-in

REPUBLICAN

DANIEL CLYDE CUMMINGS

YES

LELAND CHRISTENSEN

L

RICHARD BRUBAKER

COUNTY SHERIFF

Shall JUSTICE MICHAEL K. DAVIS be retained in office?

ELIZABETH C. MASEK

M

CURT GOTTSHALL

A

LIBERTARIAN

FRANK LYONS Shall JUSTICE E. JAMES BURKE be retained in office?

E

REPUBLICAN

BARBARA HERZ

L

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

P

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

JOSEPH S. PORAMBO

51

PROPOSED LODGING TAX: Shall Teton County Wyoming be authorized to continue to collect a two percent (2%) Lodging Tax that will be used in the following manner: Sixty percent (60%) for local travel and tourism promotion; thirty percent (30%) for visitor impact services, which includes, but is not limited to, provision of vehicle parking, public transportation, public restrooms, pedestrian and bicycle pathways, museums and other displays; and ten percent (10%) to the general funds of Teton County and the Town of Jackson?

4 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN FOUR (4)

STATE TREASURER

MIKE ENZI

43

ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL DISTRICT TRUSTEE

UNITED STATES SENATOR

REPUBLICAN

42

JUSTICES OF WYOMING SUPREME COURT REGULAR TERM OF EIGHT (8) YEARS

COUNTY

DEMOCRAT

41

NON-PARTISAN

STATE

6 YEAR TERM VOTE FOR ONE (1)

40

NON-PARTISAN

FEDERAL

E

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NON-PARTISAN

Write-in

PROPOSED CONSERVATION DISTRICT TAX: Shall the Teton County Commissioners impose a Conservation District Tax not to exceed one (1) mill on each one dollar ($1.00) of assessed valuation on all property within Teton County for the purpose of providing soil, water, wildlife and other conservation programs as directed by the Teton Conservation District?

CYNTHIA I. CLOUD REPUBLICAN

VOTE BOTH SIDES

Write-in

Teton County, WY November 4, 2014 Teton County Clerk

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House District 22 Two-year term Two candidates Marti Halverson (R – incumbent) Natalia Duncan Macker (D) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Incumbent Marti Halverson competes against political newcomer Natalia Duncan Macker for the House District 22 seat in the Wyoming Legislature. House District 22 comprises northern portions of Lincoln and Sublette counties, along with Teton County’s southern end, and includes Wilson, Hoback, Freedom, Alpine, Star Valley and Bondurant. Macker, a Hoback resident who is artistic director for Off Square Theatre Company, said one of her concerns is diminishing the difference in pay between Wyoming’s men and women. Macker would tackle that as a legislator on several fronts, she said. Raising the minimum wage would reduce the strain on working mothers who must take time off work to parent newborns, she said. “You can work hard and do things, but if you’re working 40 hours a week and making minimum wage you’re still in poverty,” Macker said. Early childhood education and stricter anti-discrimination laws would go a long way toward closing the pay gap as well, she said. “These are some of the things that could help mothers and fathers feel supported,” she said, “that when they have children they don’t have to lose their job. “I think empowering women is good economics,” Macker said. “It costs us more as a state to have families rely on the government than to

empower those people through a living wage and supporting them as part of our community.” A Tennessean who earned a theater studies liberal arts degree from Yale University, Macker has worked as a theater producer, actor and dancer. Such experience will prove invaluable as a legislator, she said. “Being an artist provided me with all kinds of collaborative and critical-thinking skills that could be useful in the Legislature,” she said, “because making a piece of art — in my case, theater — is all about a bunch of people getting together and working toward a common goal. “Being a producer is all about Halverson problem-solving.” The mother of a young son, Macker said she would focus as a legislator on ensuring that Wyoming’s children “have access to 21st-century knowledge.” That knowledge includes modern scientific understanding of climate science, she said, including the notion that humans have caused changes to the Earth’s environment. Children who are comfortable with the scientific method and the results it produces are better able to participate in a modern economy and more likely to participate in society as informed citizens, Macker said. Halverson, a retired medical industry executive, said she navigates

legislative questions using individual liberty as her lodestar. “We are sovereign people,” she said. “We have rights that end where another person’s rights begin. “We can be communities of sovereign individuals perfectly capable of getting along and organizing ourselves without too much interference from too many levels of government,” she said. Individual sovereignty relies upon the concept and fact of private property, Halverson said. “When you think about it, everything flows from the integrity of your private property,” she said. “As soon as government comes down and says ... Macker you can’t do this thing or that thing on your private property, you haven’t got much freedom left.” Halverson supports a hands-off approach to governance in areas other than property rights. During last year’s legislative session she and the rest of Teton County’s delegation attempted to decriminalize marijuana, a move Halverson described as “a no-brainer.” “If you’re driving home on Friday night,” she said, “and you’ve got an unopened six-pack of beer and an unopened baggie, why does one get you in jail and the other one doesn’t?” Halverson would not advocate

complete legalization of cannabis, however. “I’m not for legalization, because as soon as you legalize something, you invite the state to take it over,” she said. An example of that can be seen in things even so innocuous as raw milk, Halverson said. “I’m all for decriminalized distribution of fresh milk,” Halverson said. If it is legalized, however, “then you’ve got the federal government involved.” Halverson’s district includes Wyoming’s largest dairy farm, which is prohibited by federal law from selling unpasteurized milk. A Republican “deeply involved” in the party “since before I was a teenager,” Halverson said she works just as hard for the more liberal, northern end of her district as she does for the more conservative portion to the south. “When it came to the Moose-Wilson roadway I voted to support the efforts to shoot down the park’s plan to do one-lane, one-way,” she said. “I’m all for the bike path they envision there,” she said. “I’m not likely to ever use the bike trail there, but I have plenty of constituents looking forward to it.” Teton County’s board of commissioners and the majority of Jackson’s town councilors have advocated construction of a pathway along Moose-Wilson Road instead of lane closures as a means to provide enjoyment of the Moose-Wilson corridor for walkers, cyclists and drivers. — Michael Polhamus

TETON COUNTY POLLING SITES 2014 DIST. & PREC. 1-1 SD #17 HD #23

AREA South of Jackson All persons outside of the Town of Jackson, So. of Boyle’s Hill Co. Rd., West of Ely Springs Rd., So. of Cache Creek, East and North of the Snake River, North of Game Creek.

LOCATION Emergency Operations Center (EOC) 3240 S Adams Canyon

1-2 SD #17 HD #16

Mid-East Jackson All persons living South of Broadway and East of Glenwood St., North of Snow King Ave., West of Redmond St. and North of Cache Creek Dr. in the city limits.

Recreation Center 155 E. Gill Avenue

1-3 SD #17 HD #23

Skyline/Hi Country/Gros Ventre Butte/Elk Refuge All persons living outside of the Town of Jackson, North of Boyle’s Hill Co. Rd., North of Cache Creek, East of the Snake River and South of that portion of the Gros Ventre River lying West of US Hwy 26, 89 & 191 and South of Township 42 North lying East of Hwy 89.

National Museum of Wildlife Art 2820 Rungius Road

1-4 SD #17 HD #23

North Jackson All persons living North of Broadway, East of Glenwood St., South of Perry St., East of N Cache St., in the city limits.

Recreation Center 155 E Gill Avenue

1-5 SD #17 HD#16

Mid-West Jackson Fair Building All persons living within the Town of Jackson, West (Exhibit Hall) of that portion of S Cache St., South of Snow King 305 W Snow King Ave Ave. and West of that portion of Glenwood St. between Snow King Ave. and Perry St. living West of that portion of N. Cache St., North of Perry St., South of Broadway west of the Deer Ridge Townhomes, East of Virginia Lane, in the city limits.

1-6 SD #17 HD#16

Cottonwood Park All persons living West of Highway 89, South of North South Park Loop Road, East of the South Park Loop Road to the High School Road, North of High School Road, including Cottonwood Park and Gregory Lane areas, in the city limits.

Presbyterian Church 1251 South Park Loop

1-7 SD # 17 HD #23

Rafter J All persons living inside the Rafter J Subdivision. in Rafter J

Chapel at River Crossing 3205 W. Big Trail Dr.

1-8 SD #17 HD #16

East Jackson All persons living East of Redmond St. and South of Broadway, including Snow King Estates, in the city limits.

Senior Center 830 E. Hansen Avenue

1-9 SD #17 HD #16

West Jackson All persons living West of Virginian Lane and South and East of Broadway, North of Broadway between Highway 22 and the Deer Creek Townhomes, in the city limits

Fair Building (Exhibit Hall) 305 W. Snow King Ave

1-10 SD #16 HD #22

South Hoback All persons living South of Game Creek and south of the South Park Bridge to the county lines.

TC Weed & Pest 7575 S Highway 89

1-11 SD #17 HD #23

Indian Trails All persons living in the Indian Trails subdivision in the city limits.

Presbyterian Church 1251 South Park Loop

DIST. & PREC. 2-1 SD #17 HD #23

AREA Kelly/Teton Valley Highlands/Moose/Airport All persons living East of the Snake River, North of the Gros Ventre River, South of Ditch Creek, and all persons living West of the Snake River, and South of Leigh Canyon and North of Open Canyon. All persons living outside the city limits East of Highway 26, 89, & 191, South of the Gros Ventre River and North of Flat Creek.

LOCATION National Museum of Wildlife Art 2820 Rungius Road

3-1 SD #17 HD #23

Moran All persons living North of Ditch Creek and North of Leigh Canyon / Leigh Lake.

Moran School #1 Main Street Moran

4-1 SD #16

Wilson South All persons living East of the Wyoming State Line,

HD #22

Old Wilson School Community Center 5675 W. Main Street

South of Wyoming State Hwy 22, West of the Snake River. Person living Wilson on both sides of the Fall Creek Road, south to the Prichard Creek cattle guard, including all properties East and West of Fall Creek Road accessed by Fall Creek Road from W. North Fall Creek Road to Rock Creek.

4-2 SD #17 HD #23

Moose/Wilson Road West All persons living North of Hwy 22, East of Wyoming State Hwy 390, West of the Snake River, North to the Township 41 North line, West to Fish Creek, East of Fish Creek south to 3230 N Fish Creek Road, then directly south and east to the West end of Nethercott Lane, North side of Nethercott Lane, East to Wyoming State Hwy 390. Including the Lucky L Subdivision, accessed from the Fish Creek Road.

4-3 SD #16 HD #22

Wilson North Old Wilson School All persons living North of Wyoming Hwy 22, Community Center West of Wyoming State Hwy 390, North to Nethercott 5675 W. Main Street Wilson Lane, South side of Nethercott Lane to the west end, then directly North and West to 3230 N Fish Creek Road, West of Fish Creek, North to Rock Springs Canyon, South and West of Rock Springs Canyon to the North Fork Granite Creek, East of the Teton Range, South to Wyoming State Hwy 22. Including all properties accessed from Fish Creek Road, except the Lucky L Subdivision.

4-4 SD #17 HD# 23

Teton Village/Moose-Wilson Rd. All persons living North of the Township 41 North line, East of Fish Creek, West of the Snake River, north to Open Canyon, South of Open Canyon, West to Wyoming State Highway 390, South and East of Wyoming State Hwy 390 to the southern Boundary of Grand Teton National Park, West to Granite Creek, South of Granite Creek to the Teton Range, East of the Teton Range, South to Rock Springs Canyon, North of Rock Springs Canyon, East to Fish Creek.

Teton Village Fire House 7648 Granite Ridge Loop Road Teton Village

5-1 SD #17 HD #23

Alta All persons living West of the Teton Range, in Teton County, Wyoming, bounded on the West by the Wyoming State Line.

Alta School 15 Alta School Road, Alta

Wilson Fire House, Station 6 2505 N. Moose/Wilson Road, Wilson

Absentee Polling Site Teton County All persons living in Teton County. Administration Building This location will close to the public at 5pm on November 3, 2014 200 S Willow St, Jackson you must vote at your polling site on the day of the election.

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Governor Four-year term Five candidates Dee Cozzens (L) Pete Gosar (D) Taylor Haynes (I –write-in) Matt Mead (R – Incumbent) Don Wills (I) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Wyoming receives more federal funding per capita than any state but Alaska, yet several of the five gubernatorial candidates have vowed to reduce federal involvement in Wyoming’s affairs. The five candidates are Libertarian Dee Cozzens, Democrat Pete Gosar, Independents Taylor Haynes and Don Wills and Republican Matt Mead, the incumbent. Haynes, who was bested by Mead in the Republican primary in August, shed his party affiliation to re-enter the race last week and campaign as a write-in independent candidate. Dee Cozzens, a 78-year-old libertarian from Lovell who has held several senior health care positions, claims to have the best administrative background of any in the field. He has worked as CEO for three Wyoming hospitals, as a pharmaceutical representative for Pfizer, as the executive director of a health care and rehabilitation center and as a marketing director for a livestock supply company. Wyoming must become self-sustaining and independent from the federal government, Cozzens has said. He supports elimination of the Internal Revenue Service. He has railed against the federal government’s executive branch and what he says are its agencies’ infringements upon the Constitution of the State of Wyoming. Cozzens’ campaign website features a depiction of Moses holding a tablet inscribed with the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“Remember PMMS,” Cozzens wrote on his campaign website, “Politics Makes Me Sick.” Mead, 52, has spent the past four years as Wyoming’s 32nd governor. A lawyer, Teton County native and grandson of former governor and U.S. Sen. Cliff Hanson, Mead has gotten the state involved in a number of lawsuits during his first term. Last year he took the Environmental Protection Agency to court to argue against the Wills agency’s recognition of Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribal boundaries. The EPA’s determination could require Wyoming to stop polluting air within those boundaries. This summer he intervened in a lawsuit brought against Mead the Bureau of Land Management over wild horses on public land. The BLM planned to remove wild horses from large swaths of property under the agency’s jurisdiction, and wild horse preservationists sued to prevent the cull. Wyoming became involved to permit the horse removal so that the animals would not compete with ranchers using the land to graze their own animals. Mead also brought the state to court to argue against rules prohibiting roads on certain U.S. Forest Service lands and against EPA permitting rules on air

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Jillian Balow (R) Mike Ceballos (D) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Two candidates are running for the open superintendent of public instruction position. For the past four years the post has been held by the beleaguered Cindy Hill, who opted to run against Gov. Matt Mead in the August primary election. She came in a distant third behind Mead and Taylor Haynes. Conservative Democrat Mike Ceballos spent 31 years in the business world before turning his attention to education administration. For 11 of those years, he served as the Wyoming division president of Qwest Communications, now CenturyLink. Balow He is currently working on a doctorate in educational leadership at the University of Wyoming. He ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. His challenger is Republican Jillian Balow, a fifth-generation Wyomingite, former schoolteacher, Department of Family Services administrator and policy advisor to Gov. Matt Mead. She has a master’s degree in education, and her father was former treasurer of the state Board of Education. Balow bested two other Republi-

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State Superintendent of Public Instruction cans — Bill Winney and Sheryl Lain — in the August primary. Balow’s platform is based on returning control to local districts, ideally coordinating a system by which local districts can set and meet goals. “Government is less often the solution,” she said. Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, schools are allocated funds based on student performance on standardized tests, or Average Yearly Progress. This has taken teachers’ focus from student growth and turned it toward Washington, similar to the Common Core State Standards, she said. For Balow it is too late to repeal Common Core, the controversial and more rigorous educational standards overhaul estabCeballos lished by a consortium of state superintendents, as all 48 school districts in Wyoming have already adopted them. In Wyoming new standards are adopted every five years. When it happens again in 2017, Balow wants to ensure there is more public input than there was for Common Core. “People feel they were left out,” she said. Ceballos, on the other hand, has supported the adoption of the standards since their inception. “We need to have the highest possible standards,” he said during an Oct. 16 superintendent debate with Balow. Wyoming PBS sponsored the debate, and it is available to view on its website. He has visited nearly all of the school districts in the state to begin collaborating on a “shared vision” of science standards that each can teach. While neither candidate took a stance on the issue of climate change at the debate, Ceballos said it was the single subject to hold up the state’s adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards, which were drawn up by a coalition of 26 states, including Montana. “School districts are searching for a science standard,” he said. Balow said Next Generation is off the shelf. She wants to work with industries to establish a science standard that would allow graduates to pursue careers in-state, rather than seeing industries import their workforce. Such a plan would require a bolstered career and technical program for high schoolers, she said. Also during the debate, Ceballos noted that two-thirds of adults in Wyoming used to end their institutional education at high school or earlier, but students today require much more schooling. Career and technical schools, however, show a 20 percent higher graduation rate than the traditional public school system. But, one advantage public schools have that wasn’t discussed during the debate is multilingual education. Balow told the Jackson Hole News&Guide that the research is clear: Having a dual-immersion program, like that of Teton County School District No. 1, shows clear benefits, such as better test scores as students are more “cognitively engaged.” “Many districts in the state are interested to learn from Jackson and Teton County,” she said. — Jason Suder

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Wyoming Secretary of State Four-year term Three candidates Kit Carson (L) Ed Murray (R) Jennifer Young (CT) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Three candidates are vying to become Wyoming secretary of state: Libertarian Kit Carson, of Cheyenne; Republican Ed Murray, of Cheyenne; and Constitution Party candidate Jennifer Young, of Lingle. The incumbent, Max Maxfield, who won the office in 2006 and 2010, chose not to run again this year. The secretary stands in for the governor when the governor is out of state, sits on influential boards, manages elections and corporate filings and keeps the Great Seal of the state of Wyoming. Ed Murray is a Cheyenne entrepreneur and developer who won a competitive, four-way GOP primary in August. Asked what sets him apart from his contenders, he told the News&Guide in an email, “The Office of Secretary of State functions as the business office of Wyoming, and we need a business leader in this office. My 30 years of private sector experience is what distinguishes me most as a candidate. I have built my own businesses from the ground up, and in doing so I have developed an acute understanding of conservative business principles that will allow me to best serve the people of Wyoming as Secretary of State. I have a clear vision of where I will lead this office and the necessary skills and experience to make this vision a reality.� A priority of the secretary of state’s office in the past been clamping down on fraudulent or criminal corporations attracted to Wyoming by its favorable

tax laws. Murray said the state has made good first steps in that fight. “I will build upon this progress by establishing a task force within the Secretary of State’s office committed to combatting fraud,� he wrote. “I will leverage new technology to track business registrations and identify abnormal patterns and rogue filings, and I will partner with Wyoming’s Department of Criminal Investigation, the U.S. Attorney’s office, and other relevant law enforcement agencies to prevent criminals from tarnishing the integrity of Wyoming’s businesses. If necessary, I will work with the legislature to address any loopholes in statutes that criminals are exploiting.� He also acknowledged the importance of transparency, calling it “paramount to good governance.� “I will work hard to facilitate open records and the dissemination of public information,� he wrote. “I do not support using the deliberative process exemption to shield deliberations from the best disinfectant: sunlight. I will strictly adhere to Wyoming’s open meetings laws and respond to all news media requests for information. I will increase access to data and information by modernizing the Secretary of State’s website. As the Chief Elections Officer, I will partner with county clerks to ensure open and fair elections and work with my elections staff to expedite the petitions approval process.� Two other candidates for the post were contacted. Jennifer Young is a home-based business owner and grassroots activist who organized an unsuccessful petition effort to repeal a 2013 law

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Two judges, retention Chief Justice E. James Burke Justice Michael K. Davis ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Two of the five justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court will face voters for thumbs up or thumbs down on this year’s general election ballot. Newly appointed Chief Justice E. James Burke and Justice Michael K. Davis are up for retention on Nov. 4. Wyoming Circuit Court, District Court and Supreme Court judges are appointed by the governor, but that decision must be affirmed by voters at regular intervals that vary in length depending on which court the judge presides over. Teton County’s District Court and Circuit Court judges were retained during the 2012 election cycle. Supreme Court justices face a retention vote every eight years. Burke, who replaced Justice Marilyn Kite when she stepped down from the chief justice spot this year, has served on the state’s high court since 2005. Before that he was a district judge in Cheyenne for four years and worked as a lawyer in private practice for 24 years after receiving his law degree from the University of Wyoming. Davis has been a justice since 2012; he was a district judge in Cheyenne for four years before that appointment. He received a law degree from the University of Wyoming and worked in private practice for 28 years before receiving his first judgeship. Both ranked high on the most recent Judicial Advisory Poll, released Oct. 14 by the Wyoming State Bar Association. The poll asks lawyers practicing in Wyoming to rate the judges they worked with during the past two years on vari-

ous aspects of performance. Lawyers also could rate Supreme Court justices if the lawyers had read written opinions the justices wrote during that time. Lawyers also were asked to weigh in on whether the judge should be retained. Burke and Davis received good marks on the retention question from more than 90 percent of the lawyers taking the poll, about 40 percent of all Wyoming lawyers. Of the lawyers rating Davis, 94.1 percent recommended he keep his job. The survey included 11 rating criteria, and in all but one of them Davis received a higher rating that the Supreme Court average. That category, participation in lawrelated activities, was also Davis’ lowest rating of the 11, at 4.27 out of 5 points. Davis ranked highest on integrity and ethics, received a score of 4.6. Burke received a recommendation in favor of retention from 92.5 percent of the responding lawyers. He was below average twice, once on his rating for addressing issues and questions “squarely posed� by lawyers and once for industriousness and promptness in judicial duties. Burke’s lowest score was nevertheless above the court’s average: He received a 4.08 out of 5 on his openmindedness and impartiality in judicial matters. Burke, like Davis, received his highest scores on his integrity and ethics — 4.5 out of 5. Other categories the poll ranks included how well-reasoned and clearly expressed the judge’s legal opinions were, their knowledge of the law and their attentiveness to the arguments of lawyers before them. — Emma Breysse

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U.S. House of Representatives One seat; two-year term Four candidates Richard Brubaker (L) Daniel Clyde Cummings (C) Richard Grayson (D) Cynthia Lummis (R – Incumbent) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Four people are running for Wyoming’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives: The incumbent, Republican Cynthia Lummis; Democrat Richard Grayson; Libertarian Richard Brubaker; and Constitution Party candidate Daniel Clyde Cummings. Cynthia Lummis Lummis won the office in November 2008, succeeding Rep. Barbara Cubin in 2009. Lummis, 60, grew up in Cheyenne and was active in the Republican Party from an early age. She earned degrees in animal science and biology at the University of Wyoming. In 1979 she became the youngest woman to win a seat in the Wyoming House. She received a law degree in 1985, clerked for the Wyoming Supreme Court and then served in the Wyoming Senate from 1993 to 1995. From 1999 to 2007 she served as state treasurer. In 2008, after beating three other Republicans in the primary, she successfully ran against Democrat Gary Trauner, a Wilson businessman, to become Wyoming’s U.S. Congresswoman. In 2010 she retained her seat with 71 percent of the votes cast, and in 2012 won with 68 percent of the vote. In the August primary she beat Republican challenger Jason Adam Senteney 70,918 votes to his 22,251, according to the Wyoming Secretary of State’s website. The American Conservative Union gave her a score of 88 in 2013 based on 25 votes that year. She received a 92 percent in 2012. OnTheIssues.org, which tracks U.S. representatives’ and senators’ votes and quotes, noted she is antiabortion, against research that uses embryonic stem cells, believes marriage should be between a man and a woman only and has sided with colleagues who want to see all or parts of the Affordable Care Act repealed. According to her campaign website, LummisForWyoming.com, the pillars of her campaign are representing Wyoming’s agricultural and energy-related industries, cutting government spending (she signed the Americans for Tax Reform’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge) and defending the Second Amendment. Richard Grayson Democratic challenger Richard Grayson ran unopposed in the primary. The 63-year-old New York native now lives in Arizona. He has degrees in political science, English, creative writing and law. His professional career consists mostly teaching at schools in New York, Florida, New Mexico and Arizona. According to VoteSmart.org he is currently a faculty associate in the writing program at Arizona State University. Grayson’s VoteSmart.org page indicates that the self-declared “hip-hop candidate” is pro-choice and pro-gay marriage, opposes the Keystone XL

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that removed Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill from the Department of Education. She did not return her survey answers in time for this report. Her Facebook website is VoteYoung2014.com. Libertarian Kit Carson has had a 45-year career in commerce, banking and mortgages and international

pipeline and supports restricting gun purchases. He does not support the Affordable Care Act, saying, “In the long run, I favor single-payer Medicare for all.” Also on VoteSmart, he said his priorities are “increasing jobs through federal spending; fostering efforts to slow climate change and global warming; and making sure that the federal government assures equal protection for all citizens.” “Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis is certain to be re-elected with more than 75 percent of the vote,” Grayson told the Casper Journal. “You can just expect more of the same, folks. If you liked what Congress did the past two years you’ll be happy with things. Have fun!” Richard Brubaker The final two candidates — Libertarian candidate Richard Brubaker and Constitution Party candidate Daniel Clyde Cummings — both ran against Lummis in the last election cycle, garnering 3.49 percent and 2.05 percent of the vote, respectively. Brubaker, 60, lives in Riverton and has campaigned many times in the past, mostly for the state Legislature. A truck driver who has proudly alluded to his blue-collar history, he toes the Libertarian line, speaking of personal responsibility, weening ourselves off big government and erasing the federal deficit. “Government is the most addictive substance in the world,” he told the Fremont County Daily Ranger in May 2012. “We need to return to a responsible and accountable society,” he said in the same article. “We need to return to our religious beliefs and stop looking at government for solutions. We need to respect freedom of religion.” Daniel Clyde Cummings Constitution Party candidate Daniel Clyde Cummings was raised in Salt Lake City and lives in Casper, where he has a medical practice. On Cummings4Congress.com, his campaign website, he said that his interest in the Constitution goes back when he was 14. In addition to degrees in math and medicine — he boasts that he paid his own way throughout his education: “I refused all taxpayer supported college loans” — his study of constitutional history, constitutional law and current events has resulted in his 13-point “Principles of Freedom,” available on his website. His principles include the “restoration of our prior constitutional republic as it functioned in its earlier days, but without slavery”; fiscal responsibility; withdrawal from the U.N. and other such alliances; restoration of gold and silver as federal legal tender; defunding the departments of education, health and human services, labor, commerce, agriculture and urban development, transportation, energy and homeland security; the sanctity of human life; traditional merit; support of the Second Amendment; and English as the national language. — Richard Anderson trade, among other areas. He did not find two News&Guide phone messages until the day of publication, and the email listed by the secretary of state’s office was incorrect. For information about his campaign go to his website, DumpMead.com. — John R. Moses The Associated Press contributed to this story.

SAY NO TO OBAMA AND YES TO WYOMING

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Mike Enzi (R – Incumbent) Curt Gottshall (I) Charlie Hardy (D) Joseph Porambo (L) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Voting for U.S. Senate candidates in Wyoming is something like voting for the weather. We know what we like, we’re entitled to express an opinion, and we’ll end up taking what we get. In this case the forecast is “continued Republican.” But at least this time around the Democrats have a candidate who runs as if he doesn’t know he’s destined to go home at the end of the campaign. Charlie Hardy has been running against incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Enzi with something close to aggressiveness. Hardy, 74, is a former Catholic priest, a Spanish speaker and the holder of a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Wyoming. He frequently sounds a bit like a character from “The Grapes of Wrath.” He talks about underdogs, the downtrodden, the people he says the American system has left out and left behind. He likes to recall trips around the West on which he met farmers and miners with black lung disease. During his time as a priest Hardy spent eight years in Venezuela living “in a shack made out of cardboard and tin — a government housing project,” working with people “as they courageously challenged their circumstances and demanded change.” Many U.S. government policies today, Hardy says, “have been put in place by politicians who don’t seem to hear the cries and cannot see the suffering.” During the Senate candidate forum on Wyoming Public Broadcasting, Hardy went after Enzi for being slow to respond to constituent needs and ignoring the state’s problems. He also took Enzi to task for having his daughter-in-law involved in his campaign and paying her from his campaign fund. Hardy has campaigned for a boost in the minimum wage and for other relief and educational programs to lift people from poverty. But that doesn’t change Enzi’s strong position. The three-term incumbent squeaked out a win with 54 percent of the vote in 1996, but in two subsequent elections he has crushed his primary and general election opponents. Enzi’s strength is that he’s what most Wyomingites seem to want from a U.S. senator: solidly Republican, but in a calm and polite way that doesn’t lead to a lot of fighting. A look at his primary campaign is illustrative: Liz Cheney, former VP Dick Cheney’s wayright, tough-talking daughter, got off to a weak start and soon quit. Enzi’s stands focus on what he calls “market-based solutions” that keep the

role of the federal government at a minimum. He has been a regular attacker of Obamacare as a money-waster that fails to deliver. He has called instead for private insurance plans designed to “expand access to quality health insurance” by providing insurance pools and tax breaks. He sits on the Senate Health Committee. Enzi, 70, regularly comes out for a small budget and a reduced federal debt. He supported last year’s government shutdown when Republicans and Democrats butted heads over federal spending. Enzi has also bad-mouthed budget earmarks as contributing to unnecessary programs and hindering efforts to balance the budget. Enzi has spoken against “amnesty” for illegal aliens but favors programs that bring temporary workers to the United States. No surprise, Enzi gets high marks from the National Rifle Association for his Second Amendment positions. Enzi faced four challengers in the August primary and got 78.5 percent of the GOP ballots: 77,965 votes. Hardy faced three other Democrats in the primay, including one who has never been to Wyoming and the late Al Hamburg, the candidate-for-everything over more than three decades who died Sept. 10. He took 18,306 votes — about 23 percent of Enzi’s support. Two other candidates complete the field: Libertarian Joseph Porambo and Independent Curt Gottshall. Gottshall, 40, is an airline pilot who flies international routes. His beliefs are a blend of GOP and Libertarian on budget and taxes. He wants stricter enforcement of immigration laws and reform of campaign finance laws to end what he calls corruption. He favors term limits. Gottshall wants an end to NSA domestic spying and promises to protect Social Security and other “earned entitlements.” He says the federal government shouldn’t manage abortion or gay marriage, in spite of the personal beliefs of elected reps. Gottshall has promised that on important issues he will go to constituents via the Internet, the mail and the media to gather opinions and that he will then vote the way the majority directs. Libertarian Joseph Porambo, 54, lives in Casper and is a cook at an assisted living home. He bills himself as a former Republican who became disenchanted with the party. Porambo thinks there’s too much government and proposes wide cuts, including salary reductions for the president and senators. He says budget-slicing must not hurt the military and should also be done so that Social Security and Medicare recipients aren’t harmed. He is against Obamcare, and has also criticized domestic spying by the NSA and other government agencies. — Mark Huffman

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ASSURE Our Citizens Are Treated Like Customers. EXAMINE EVERY IDEA AND MEANS to increase the creation of WORKFORCE HOMES and RENTALS. PURSUE THE PLANNING and construction of a new, first class, COMMUNITY CENTER.

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Constitutional Amendement A Who can serve as a UW trustee? Wyoming voters will be asked to amend the state constitution in the general election this November to allow people living outside Wyoming to serve on the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees. Constitutional amendments appear on the ballot just about every election cycle, Rep. Keith Gingery said, but they require more than a majority “yes” vote to take effect. Every ballot picked up counts as a vote in a constitutional amendment ballot measure, whether or not the voter elects to choose a stance. Essentially, skipping the ballot proposal is a vote against the measure. The amendment requires a majority approval of all ballots distributed to pass. If Constitutional Amendment A passes the governor will be allowed to appoint alumni or other people with an interest in the university to the board even if they do not live in Wyoming. They could not make up more than 20 percent of the board, and the state Senate would have to approve the governor’s appointments. The governor has always selected members of the board, but no one from out of state has been able to have a seat. Sen. Tony Ross, R-Laramie, first proposed the amendment in the 2013 legislative session because he felt there are former Cowboys who have become leaders in their fields and would be beneficial voices on the board. But former Trustee Peter Jorgensen thinks the real reason for the amendment is a financial one that ties the school to the energy industry. “I think they need to be careful not to get locked into oil and gas to the exclusion of academic freedom,” he said. “I think we’re probably overselling the energy stuff.” He fears the tendency would be to look for wealthy investors to serve on the board rather than those with an interest in the students. The university, in his opinion, would be better off with only Wyoming residents. “They should be looking for welleducated residents of the state of Wyoming with a political balance in the

Amendment language The ballot language of Constitutional Amendment A as it will appear on the 2014 general election ballot: “The adoption of this amendment would allow the governor to appoint nonresidents of the state to serve as University of Wyoming trustees. Not more than twenty percent (20%) of the appointed trustees may be nonresidents of the state. The governor would not be required to appoint any nonresident as a trustee. All appointments to the board of trustees are with the advice and consent of the Wyoming Senate.” Go to SOSWY.state.wy.us/Elections/ Docs/2014/2014BallotIssues.pdf for a complete copy of 2013 Senate Enrolled Joint Resolution No. 1 and Original Senate Joint Resolution No. 0001. court who are interested in education and are willing to put in the time,” he said. The argument Gingery hears is that the oil and gas industry has funded the engineering program generously enough to make it a top research institution and deserves a bigger voice. Many faculty and students, on the other hand, say the measure could interfere with UW’s independence. “Part of university is to have diverse opinions,” Gingery said, “especially Wyoming kids that may not have been exposed to new ways of thinking.” Officially, the board of trustees decided that the university would not take a position on the amendment, as it would be inappropriate to take a stand on an issue posed to the voters, said Chad Baldwin, UW’s communications director. But some trustees, including President David Palmerlee and Dave Bostrom, have publicly voiced their support for the amendment, Baldwin said. Constitutional Amendment A will appear on Wyoming ballots under “ballot propositions.”

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Uncontested Races Teton Conservation District Board (3 seats, 4-year term) Dave Adams Bob Lucas Sandy Shuptrine ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– There will be a shuffling of leadership on the Teton Conservation District Board of Directors this year, with one member stepping down and another being elevated to a voting member. Two other voting board members will move on in their roles facing no opposition. Teton Conservation District board members serve four years and meet once a month. The Teton Conservation District, funded through a property tax of one mill, promotes the conservation and management of Jackson Hole’s natural resources, including air, land, water, vegetation, and wildlife. Adams, currently a nonvoting Shuptrine associate member of the board, will replace outgoing board treasurer Scott Pierson. Adams is a three-term district board member who has served in one capacity or another since 2002. He holds a doctorate in geophysics and has lived in the valley for more than four decades. After Nov. 4, Adams will move out of his current advisory role and become a voting member. Shuptrine has served since 2010 and currently chairs the board. A former Teton County commissioner, Shuptrine also serves on the Yellowstone-Teton Clean Energy Coalition’s board of directors, helped found Jack-

son Community Recycling and has been an active member of the community for decades. Cattleman Lucas, longtime owner of the U Lazy U Ranch in South Park, has served on the district board since 1996 and will be beginning his sixth term. Lucas has protected much of his Snake River-front property with conservation easements through a partnership with the Jackson Hole Land Trust and the Nature Conservancy.

Teton County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees (3 seats, 4-year terms) Keith Gingery Joe Larrow Janine Bay Teske ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Three candidates are running unopposed for the three open seats on Teton County School District No. 1’s Board of Trustees: incumbent Janine Bay Teske, state Rep. Keith Gingery and Joe Larrow. As the district’s governing body, the job of school trustees is to enforce policy, oversee the administrative team and manage the district’s budget. The only incumbent on the ballot, Teske has been on Gingery the school board since 2002. In her three terms she has overseen the construction of new buildings for Colter Elementary School, Summit High School and Davey Jackson Elementary School. She also worked to ensure regional cost-of-living protections for teachers. She is an associate broker with Jackson Hole Real Estate Associates. Her daughter graduated

from Jackson Hole High School in 2010. Gingery has served five terms as Wyoming representative for House District 23. Earlier this year he announced he would step down from his seat, in part because of the amount of travel involved. He said, however, that he would still like to serve his community and promptly announced he would run for the school board. Gingery also serves as a deputy county attorney. A graduate of Jackson Hole high School, he said that as a board member Teske he would emphasize equitable pay for paraprofessionals and classified staff, such as bus drivers and secretaries. He also intends to bring the elementary school teacher-to-student from the current 20-to-1 to the state-mandated 16-to-1. Larrow’s eclectic past spans tours in Botswana while working for a French safari outfitter, running the ski race program in Portillo, Chile, and advertising and translating for an English company in France. He currently works at Jackson Hole Airport as a ticket and customer service representative. He speaks three languages — English, Spanish and French — and studied Spanish and geology at the University of Wyoming. Larrow wants to ensure that all students in the district, including his own sixth-grader, have access to quality language instruction.

Teton County Treasurer (4-year term)

Donna M. Baur (D) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Baur was first elected Teton County Treasurer in 2006 and for 11 years

before that worked as the clerk of the town of Jackson and in the county assessor’s office. She ran unopposed in 2010, as she does this election. The office of the county treasurer’s main jobs are managing the collection of property taxes and automobile registration fees and sales taxes.

Teton County Clerk (4-year term) Sherry Daigle (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Daigle has been Teton County clerk since 1998, when she was appointed by Teton County commissioners to replace longtime clerk Jolynn Coonce, who had held the job for 34 years. Daigle had worked under Coonce as a staff member for five years before being elevated. She then won her first election to the post in 2002, and ran unopposed in 2006. In 2010 she easily fended off a challenge from Democrat Kyle Burson. The County Clerk’s Office is mandated by the Wyoming state Legislature to provide a variety of services to the citizens of Teton County, including issuing marriage licenses, distributing and filing a wide range of forms, and managing elections. “Our goal is to provide these services in the most efficient, cost-effective manner possible,” the clerk’s page on the Teton County government website states.

Teton County and Prosecuting Attorney (4-year term) Steve Weichman (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Steve Weichman, 56, is the uncontested incumbent Republican candidate for the Teton County Attorney’s office. He is seeking a fifth four-year See UNCONTESTED on 25

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term in the office. He has served 18 years as the top government-employed lawyer in the county. Weichman is also the top criminal prosecutor for Teton County crimes and oversees a two-pronged office of fellow lawyers. The criminal division of the office prosecutes felony and misdemeanor cases that occur in Teton County. The civil division advises the county commission and other government agencies on legal matters. Weichman Weichman, a native of Casper, earned his law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1986. He began his career as a deputy county attorney in 1989 and was first elected to his current office in 1996. The last time he stood for re-election, in 2010, he ran unopposed until Democrat Greg Blenkinsop mounted a writein campaign.

Teton County Sheriff (4-year term) Jim Whalen (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Whalen, 55, is the incumbent Republican candidate for Teton County Sheriff. He is running for re-election uncontested for the second time. The sheriff is the top law enforcement official for crimes occurring in Teton County outside the jurisWhalen diction of the town of Jackson. Whalen was appointed to the post in January 2009 after his

longtime predecessor, Bob Zimmer, retired before the end of his term. Because Zimmer was a Republican, the Teton County Republican Party selected three candidates to replace him — Whalen, then-County Commissioner Leland Christensen and former Highway Patrolman Dave Schofield. The Teton County Board of Commissioners appointed Whalen. Before his appointment, Whalen was the operations captain for the Teton County Sheriff ’s Office for 10 years. In 2013 he attended the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, for a 10-week training session.

Hole Community Counseling Center. As a state senator, Christensen has served on more than two dozen committees, including the Senate Judiciary Committee, for which he was vice chairman in 2014, the Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee, the Select Committee on School Facilities and the Western Economic Development. His legislative priorities, he said on his website, are creating jobs, sustaining our tourism industry, responsible fiscal planning and spending, and protecting Wyoming’s ranch lands, open space and wildlife.

Senate District 17 (4-year term)

House District 16 (2-year-term)

Leland Christensen (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Christensen, of Alta, has represented Senate District 17, which includes parts of Teton and Fremont counties, since 2011. In August 2010 the twoterm Teton County commissioner ran against banker Samuel Harrell to win the Republican primary, then ran unopposed for the seat held by longtime legislator Grant Larson. Before his time as a county commissioner, Christensen, 56, was a 20-year employee Christensen of the Teton County Sheriff ’s Office and also served 15 years with the Army National Guard. At LelandChristensen.com, his campaign website, he boasts of his 40 years as a Teton County resident and 26 years of engagement in the community through his career and volunteer work, which has included the Teton County Fair Board, Parks and Recreation Board, Boy Scouts of America, Rotary and the Jackson

Ruth Ann Petroff (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Petroff, who lives in Jackson with her husband, outgoing six-term Jackson Mayor Mark Barron, first ran for House District 16 of the Wyoming Legislature in 2010, beating out Democratic challenger Len Carlman. She replaced Democratic Rep. Pete Jorgensen, who retired from the post. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Colorado, the 49-year-old has a long local career as a successful businesswoman. She owned and operated the Domino’s Pizza store here for 17 years. In 2003 she opened Hard Drive Cafe, which she now leases to Cafe Boheme, and also owns the coffee roasting business Snake River Roasting Company. As a state legislator, she has served on more than a dozen committees, including the House Revenue Committee, House Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee, Workforce Development Council and House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee. “I’ve been an effective voice for Teton County interests,” she says on her campaign website, RuthAnn.us, “for business, for jobs, for tourism;

for the parks, for teacher wages, for clean energy; for fiscal prudence, for civilized discourse, and for productive cooperation.”

Wyoming Auditor (4-year term) Cynthia I. Cloud (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Wyoming’s auditor is the state’s chief comptroller. Cloud won the post in 2010 after her predecessor, Rita Meyer, launched an unsuccessful bid for governor. Cloud’s office is responsible for setting up a computer accounting system, issuing authorized payments and serving as chief payroll officer. Public benefit payments — more than 840,000 last year — go through the office. The office also prepares the state’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and enters all legislative appropriations into its computer system. Despite the job title, the state auditor does not audit; the Department of Audit does that. On CynthiaCloud.com, her campaign website, Cloud said that she is the first CPA to hold the office. The state auditor’s website, SAO.state. wy.us, notes that for the 16th year the office has received a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.

Wyoming Treasurer (4-year term) Mark Gordon (R) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Wyoming’s state treasurer is in charge of investing more than $17 billion and distributing state and federal cash to local governments and public institutions like the University of Wyoming. The office also tracks lost cash and tries to reunite it with its owners. Mark Gordon has held the post since See UNCONTESTED on 26

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On ballots next week will be a box to determine funding for the Teton Conservation District, a government organization that publishes and provides information, monitors resources and funds conservation projects in Teton County. The district is funded almost exclusively through a 1-mill property tax that has been in place since 1999. The mill pays for a staff of five and supports an array of projects ranging from water-quality improvement on Flat Creek and Fish Creek to a cost-share program for

residents wanting to test their well water, said Sandy Shruptine, who chairs the district board. “It usually is not very controversial,� Shruptine said of the district’s mill, “the reason being that it goes toward conservation projects, for which there seems to be a high interest in in our community.� In addition to research, the Teton Conservation District also produces educational publications such as weed and native plant pocket guides and guides with tips to reduce storm water pollution.

Teton Conservation District’s mill is decided by voters every four years. So far it has never been voted down, Shruptine said. “I think that there is an opportunity to make it permanent, but the practice in our county has been to let the voters take a look,� she said. “I think it helps with accountability and motivation.� One mill of property tax equals about $38 on a $400,000 property in Teton County.

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“I say this not because we should expect tougher times, but because the solemn duty of this office is to protect the revenues generated off the one-time extraction of our mineral wealth and turn that into a renewable revenue resource for the state from the prudent investment of those funds, which has proven to be the state’s second most significant revenue stream and has helped to diversify and strengthen our economy.�

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Polls for the 2014 general election will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. The precinct map on page 27 of this section outlines where voters in each precinct can cast their ballots. More detailed information about precincts, including more exact descriptions of precinct boundaries, can be found under the “elections� tab on the Teton County Clerk’s website, TetonWyo.org/cc. Ballots differ widely from precinct to precinct. For example, voters in some

precincts are eligible to vote for House District 22, while those in other precincts will vote for House District 23. Only residents living within the borders of the town of Jackson can vote for mayor and Town Council. Samples of all ballots can be found on pages 14 and 15. Voters also may cast absentee ballots until 5 p.m. Monday in the clerk’s office at 200 S. Willow St. Voter registration closes 14 days

before election day, but eligible residents can register at the polls. The county clerk warns, however, that this can cause delays and lines at polling stations. As of Monday, there were 12,804 voters registered in Teton County, according to the county clerk’s office. In the Aug. 19 primary, there were 12,539 registered voters, but just 4,270 votes cast, which equates to a voter turnout of 34 percent.

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