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Thread #24181   Message #274870
Posted By: katlaughing
10-Aug-00 - 01:09 AM
Thread Name: Gore and Lieberman
Subject: RE: Gore and Lieberman
Dick Cheney has used Wyoming most blatantly and Wyomingites, in general are just idiotic or blind enough to be proud of him.

He grew up here(I haven't found anything which says he was born here), his parents remained here, BUT he left as soon as he came of age and never returned for any length of time. For a long time he worked for Gerald Ford, when he was a congressman from Michigan; then served Ford when he was president.

Cheney came back to Wyoming long enough to get elected to Congress, then went on to be secretary of defense, then moved directly to Texas. A lot of oilmen and livestock companies own land in Wyoming and live elsewhere...they are carpetbaggers and deserve nothing but contempt, IMO, for the way they, and their in-state cronies, including the governor, have continued to turn Wyoming into a Third World state, not only economically, but environmentally and socially, also.

kat