Reply #66: DNC has promised over $120, 000 over 2 years to the state.

[madfloridian]

Not as much as some states get, granted. But not as big a chance at pick-up either. But it it is something. Dean is also helping Trauner as mentioned above.

http://www.prospect.org/midterm/2006/07/wy_at_large_polls_fundraising.html

"According to a Roll Call report, the DNC has committed over $120,000 over two years to the state."

There is no reason for that state to be afraid of working together with the party. It is just an outdated notion, this distancing stuff. This is the result of a over a decade of the party trying to cater to Republicans, this distancing tactic. It does not need to be.

More on the DNC help here..it is a beginning.

http://www.westerndemocrat.com/2006/07/50_state_strate.html

"In 2004, Mike Gierau and other Wyoming Democratic leaders wanted to boost the Kerry-Edwards ticket's local profile by securing some bumper stickers. But helping local Democrats in a state that the ticket was certain to lose in a landslide was not exactly the first priority of either the national party or the presidential campaign. So Gierau, now the state party chairman, was reduced to ordering the items from an online store.
What a difference two years - and a new Democratic National Committee chairman, Howard Dean - can make.

As part of Dean's strategy to build up the Democratic Party infrastructure in all 50 states, the DNC has committed $120,000 to Wyoming over two years - enough to hire a field director and a communications director, rather than just an executive director, as in the past.

The DNC also donated $5,000 to jump-start the party's grass-roots organization, said party executive director Kyle DeBeer. The party plans to have teams of 25 volunteers deployed in 57 key precincts on Election Day."

We are all in this together.