Jackson Hole News and Guide from Jackson, Wyoming • 117

ELECTION 2008 JACKSON HOLE Wednesday, October 29, 2008 -19 7 I believe in states' rights on water law and remain concerned about headwaters to the Snake. I want to explore every avenue of the issue before I take a position. I support Sen. John Barrasso's bill with amendments. I believe the boundary lines need to be drawn based on topography.

I want to consider restricting drilling for a period of years as opposed to in perpetuity. America needs it all and Wyoming has it all: coal, oil, natural gas, uranium, wind, solar, and even platinum for fuel cells. I support increased domestic energy production and conservation because they mean a safer, stronger America, and we can do it! The troop surge has been a success. As Iraq's conflicts move to border-control issues with Iran, there will be more of a rote fbr political solutions brought forward by Iraqis and less of a role for the U.S. military.

Iraqis should pay for their role with their own oil revenues. There is backlog of maintenance needs in the national parks and needed forest service projects. I support a prioritized list and believe Kempthome's Challenge is the right direction. I applaud the local Forest Service office decision to keep the doors open in Jackson. We must increase our energy independence and return to our core principles of fiscal conservatism.

Congress should make the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent to help spur business and personal investments, then reduce spending across the board. Cynthia Lummis eiMBaiiaiii.aiaB8iiiga unlike Cynthia Lummis, agree with Sen. Barrasso and the late Sen. Craig Thomas that we need to protect the Wyoming Range and therefore fully support the Wyoming Range Act. The Forest Service is underfunded, but it's also mismanaged by the federal government.

First we need a Congress that will actually do its job by cutting pork, funding proper programs and returning control to agencies. Wyoming should be a launching pad for the energy economy of the future. We need to continue to responsibly extract our coal, oil and gas while developing the technologies, infrastructure and expertise for the energy sources of the future. Our troops have done an incredible job but cannot continue to referee internal Iraqi battles. Iraqis should take responsibility for their own county and start paying fbr their reconstruction.

We should not be paying $5,000 per second overseas when we need it at home. As a natural resource state we have to balance conservation, agriculture and our energy resources. As long as we can preserve -in-stream river flows for agriculture and ensure that down-stream water rights are protected, then the bill strikes the right balance. The federal government needs to work with the private sector to re-establish confidence in the economy and our marketplace. In the long term, Congress should take concrete steps to restore accountability and oversight to the free market system.

mil til irm Gary Trauner "Years of politicians who say one thing, do another and hope nobody is paying attention have destroyed people's faith in the system," he said. "I always say the way you campaign is the way you are going to govern. Making stuff up, deception, fear and distraction have done nothing to solve our most important issues, and are not Wyoming values." Trauner said his primary goal in office is to make the country more energy independent: "This is the issue of our time; it affects our national and economic security and the legacy that we leave our children. Currently, our economic strategy seemingly is borrow money from countries like China to buy oil from unfriendly foreign nations and put the bill on our children's future tab. This makes no sense.

We can achieve energy independence by utilizing the energy technologies of today through continued responsible drilling and extraction of coal, oil and gas while at the same time embarking on an Apollo Moon project to develop the energy technologies of the future." "The Republicans have held Congress since 1994, and they didn't make much noise then about becoming energy independent," he said. "If a Libertarian had been in charge, we would be an exporting country and we would have a strong dollar." Herbert said his two biggest goals if elected to office are to ensure veterans get the care they need and to reform the nation's financial system. "I am a combat vet, and a lot of veterans have been seriously wounded and have not been taken care of properly," he said. "My priority is not to let that happen, especially for our younger vets coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan." Eds Note: Herbert did not respond to the questionaire above. Gary Trauner, Democrat Trauner, 49, is a Wilson businessman, who moved to Wyoming 18 years ago.

In 2006, Trauner challenged seven-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin, losing in the general election by about 1,000 votes. He said he was motivated to run again for the seat because nothing has changed in the last two years. elected would be to bring fiscal responsibility back to government and tackle the host of other important national issues.

"We are facing challenging times in the financial world, energy, the environment, health care and national security," she said. "My experience as a small-business person and experience in the state legislature and as state treasurer have prepared me to bring Wyoming's message to Congress." W. David Herbert, Libertarian Herbert, of Cody, grew up in Salinas, Calif. and moved to Wyoming in the mid-1970s after retiring from the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel.

He holds a medical degree and a law degree. Herbert said he decided to run because he was not impressed with the Democratic and Republican candidates who filed to run for the "I think we should have people who are outstandingly qualified," he said. "I am just trying to give people a real choice this year." He also thinks the country needs leadership with Libertarian principles. Wyoming has a single U.S. House seat to represent the entire state.

House members serve two-year terms. U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin announced early she would not seek an eighth term. Wilson Democrat Gary Trauner announced in October he would try for the second consecutive election to win the seat.

Former state treasurer Cynthia Lummis of Cheyenne emerged from a crowded Republican field in August to earn her party's nomination. 0 Cynthia M. Lummis, Republican Lummis, 54, was born and raised in Wyoming and graduated from the University of Wyoming with degrees in biology and animal science and returned for a law degree, which she received in 1985. She was elected to the Wyoming Legislature in 1979 and served for 14 years in the House and she -served two terms as state treasurer. "My record and dedication to Wyoming are open for all to see," she said.

"I am proud to stand on that record of service to Wyoming voters." Lummis said her top priority if 25 years in Teton County, WY 10 years on Children's Memorte' Hospital Board, 35 years running large service-oriented businesses 3TE FOR fWTE FOIL 1 Experience in advising to hea'l care Industry companic: Advisory Board, Jackson Hole Center for Global AffaSn MBA in Finance from University of Chicago mssm BES 31 C0UMTY HOSPITAL BOARI KOYEMBER 4TH 2008 VOTE Ml it ii if 00 i a description of quaHf icatSons tnd pos''cn.