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Source: Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune

Protesters show up in force near Cheney home

By WHITNEY ROYSTER
Star-Tribune staff writer Sunday, August 12, 2007

WILSON -- Some 200 people gathered in a Wilson field Saturday afternoon for a "Peace Rally" to protest the Iraq war and send a message to Vice President Dick Cheney, who owns a home just up the road.

"We organized it because of the war in Iraq and what an injustice it has been," Walt Farmer, retired Air Force captain and registered Republican said. "The Vice President has received a pass in Jackson long enough. We want to let them know we don't approve of the war or how they play fast and loose with the Constitution."

Attending a rally first with speakers, including State Rep. Pete Jorgensen (D-Jackson), author Alexandra Fuller and musicians, the group then took to the county bike path where they marched 1.5 miles north to the entrance of the exclusive Teton Pines Country Club, where Cheney lives when he is in Wyoming.

A 10-foot tall effigy of Cheney, with a fishing pole in one hand and a spouting oil well in the other, was brought on the route. Rally-goers toppled the statute as a symbolic gesture of their disapproval of the vice president.

Read more: http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/08/12/news/wyoming/e26d5e7db6b2747f87257334007aad70.txt

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Just thought I'd post to let everyone know that not all of Wyoming is RW nutjobs, which I hear here often. :hi: