Democratic National Committee chair visits Wyoming

WILSON – As the architect of the party’s “blue wave” election in 2018, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez has quickly risen to prominence as a grassroots organizer on a national scale.

With that in mind, it seemed appropriate that he would address the activists of Wyoming’s burgeoning Democratic Party – which is slowly rebuilding its ranks after years of Republican dominance – at a place where young lives are shaped every day: the front steps of the Old Wilson Schoolhouse.

In Jackson Hole for the second time in a year, Perez gave a spirited address to more than 100 Democrats gathered on the schoolhouse lawn, a crowd featuring everyone from Mayor Pete Muldoon and members of the local county commission to state legislators Andy Schwartz and Andi Clifford.

In 30 minutes of remarks, Perez focused on issues like public lands access and the state’s Republican-led Legislature and its repeated votes against expanding Medicaid. Additionally, he called out Sen. John Barrasso and his efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, calling the former physician’s efforts a “violation of the Hippocratic Oath.”

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