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Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/7/2012 Name: D. BRENT Holden Address: box 291, Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 Phone: 3078490516 I support the Cooper/ Martin plan to protect Cokeville's voting privilege. I very much appose the effort to place Cokeville in the Afton voting district. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/7/2012 Name: Mary Ann Holden Address: Box 291, Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 Phone: 3078490516 E-Mail: I definitely support the Cooper/Martin plan to protect Cokeville's voting privilege. I strongly appose the effort to place Cokeville in the Afton voting district. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/7/2012 Name: Frank Lazcanotegui Address: PO Box 187, Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 Phone: 307 279 3378 E-Mail: [email protected] Please be attentive to the needs of our voting protection here in Cokeville and let it go on record that we strongly support the Cooper/Martin proposal and highly, highly oppose having Cokeville and LaBarge being incorporated in with Star Valley for redistricting! Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/6/2012 Name: john Teichert Address: Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 Phone: 307-279-3652i I strongly support the Cooper/Martin plan. Otherwise we have taxation without representation. We never vote like the Starvillians and the people here work more in the Kemmerer area. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/6/2012 Name: Pam Grandy Address: Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 E-Mail: [email protected] Being in the middle of Lincoln County presents some very interesting situations between the northern influence of Star Valley and the southern of Kemmerer. From past experience I think it would be best if the Cokeville area was represented by those in the South Lincoln area as suggested by the Cooper/Martin plan. In the past, this type of representation has worked pretty well over the years. When you break off small bits of South Lincoln County and put it with Star Valley, the citizens of places like Cokeville are not even going to be heard or represented. Star Valley residents have a hard time being on the same page as it is. I am very concerned with the plan of removing us from the Evanston area which is only 7 miles away where there is a large amount of interactrion and putting us with Lincoln county which is a long distance away and with whom we have very little interaction. I would make it more difficult for a Representative to understand and give us representation. Our vote would be basically worthless since Almy and Hilliard would always be outvoted by those in Lincoln County, if as it appears from the map that Kemmerer and Diamondville are part of the same district. Yes sometimes we are outvoted by Evanston and or Bridger Valley too, but at least we have some commonality where we can come together. Please advise what is intended by putting Almy and Hilliard with parts of Lincoln and Sweetwater counties which we are generally disassociated with. Thanks, Gilbert C. Olson 1531 County Rd. 103 Evanston, WY 82930 Phone: 307-789-9761 Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/4/2012 Name: Dorothy B. Teichert Address: Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 Phone: 307 279 3652 The majority of the men in our town work in the Kemmerer area, not in Star Valley. It is bad enough that we are in their school district with no representation. It would be a mistake to let Star Valley dictate to us further. We support the Cooper/ Martin leaders. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/3/2012 Name: Merridee Matson Organization: Star Valley Chamber of Commerce Address: Afton, Wyoming 83110 The current redistricting plan that nests HD 21 and HD 22 under SD 16 is the most fair and equitable plan for Star Valley residents. The plan is a good compromise that we hope will pass in the 2012 session. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/2/2012 Name: Bill Thompson Address: P O Box 1, 70 Thompson Circle, Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 Phone: 307-279-3588 E-Mail: [email protected] I support the Cooper/Martin plan and oppose efforts to incorporate Cokeville and LaBarge into Star Valley. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/2/2012 Name: Angela Boyer Address: 10763 US Hwy 30, Cokeville, Wyoming 83114 E-Mail: [email protected] We support the Cooper/Martin plan and have no desire to be swallowed up in the Star Valley District. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/2/2012 Name: Della Fordyce Address: P.O. Box 756, Newcastle, Wyoming 82701 Phone: 307-746-2036 E-Mail: [email protected] As a voter in the great state of Wyoming that one year ago adopted the Code of the West as Wyoming's official state code. Were you paying Lip Service to the rural values and ideals that we the voters hold dear? Principles of State Legislative Redistricting Law states on page 1. I Quote: To the greatest extent possible, in establishing election districts: County boundaries should be followed. Does this mean that you can cut Weston County in half? I don't think so. This committee is not considering the rural counties. All along the East side of Wyoming and along the Montana border. What is wrong with you people. Can't you read a map. What you are doing is wrong. YOu have lied to the voters of Wyoming. How can you allow your Chairman to turn his chair around when a County Commissioner asked for permission to speak and was given so. Your Chairman should be totally replaced and not be allowed on this committee. Why aren't there members from rural counties in Wyoming on this committee? This isn't over. We the people of Wyoming will be heard. A very concerned voter Della Fordyce Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 2/2/2012 Name: Kim Dean Address: 28 Old Hwy. 85, Newcastle, Wyoming 82701 E-Mail: [email protected] I firmly believe that redistricting should closely follow county lines in the state of Wyoming and I support Hans Hunt's proposal. This is Wyoming, land of wide open spaces, where the way of the West still prevails, and the Corporation committee's current redistricting proposal doesn't follow or preserve that philosophy. Weston County is my neighborhood, and smaller counties or neighborhoods such as ours deserve a strong voice to represent us at the legislative table. When an issue arises in our neighborhood, it is vital to have someone from the neighborhood who is "in the thick of it" to see the danger and take action, rather than wait for someone in another neighborhood to even realize there is a problem. Our little neighborhood is going to have different problems than larger and richer ones and we deserve to have a strong voice at the table presenting those issues over the next decade in our great Cowboy state. I have written Governor Matt Mead and asked for his support for the Hunt proposal and today I am asking for all of your support also. Thank you for your time and support of this vital measure, Kim Dean Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 1/17/2012 Name: Terri Sporkin Address: P.O. Box 536, Meeteetse, Wyoming 82433 Phone: 307-272-4989 E-Mail: [email protected] The whole redisticting for the state has become ridicules. You are disinfranchasing whole communities. I've listed all my reasons prevously. Many communities such as Meeteetse have no real connection with Hot Springs County major one is no way of getting information to the people in Meeteetse. I believe the committee needs to wake up to the fact we probably need more House Representives in the bigger areas. Just because you mit not have room for more seats move the WY House to one of the many open space buildings in Cheyenne. Your are not even following the Wyoming State Consitution,let alone the The US Supreme Court Ohio case was pertaining mostly to US House Representation,also not germanding districts for political advantages. Wyoming doesn't have the population to worrying about concerning the federal end. Keep Meeteetse in Park County, Shell, Emblem in Big Horn County, Shoshonie, Lyste in Fremont. The list can go on concerning the whole state. Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee - Redistricting Date Submitted: 1/16/2012 Name: Mike Hunzie Address: Diamondville, Wyoming 83116 Phone: 307-877-3185 E-Mail: [email protected] I have followed the redistricting proposals for a while now, including the committee proposal, the Cooper-Martin changes and others. One that I find a lot of common sense in is the one offered by Representative Hunt, a STATEWIDE plan based Counties. I believe, and think that the committee does as well, that Counties should be kept in tact as much as possible. I know that this can't always be done, but it should be the starting point. If a county is over or under the population required, then lines could be drawn as close to County Lines as possible. Doing this would help reduce the need to split communities. Bigger urban areas (Cheyenne, Casper, Rock Springs, etc.) with more than the required population would of course need to be split, but a Town like Diamondville (population less than 1,000) shouldn't have to be. My strongest concern is of Southwest Wyoming, where I live, but I think the plan must be fair to the entire state.