Democrat schools chief contender reaches out to Republican heartland
WORLAND -- Mike Ceballos didn't take a bite of pie all night.
His campaign team kept him on his toes -- former Worland Mayor LaVertha Gotier most of all -- despite long tables loaded with sizzling hamburgers and tempting potato chips.
"I even got a check for you," Gotier said after saying hello at the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce barbecue Aug. 26.
Ceballos laughed, slapped his knee.
"Well," he said. "Well. Thank you."
"Every vote counts," Gotier said. "C'mon, doll."
She took Ceballos' arm and led him to a row of middle-age people sitting behind a dessert table, where Ceballos shook hands and explained several times how to pronounce his Spanish last name.
The barbecue was the latest stop for Ceballos, a Democrat and former telecommunications executive running for superintendent of public instruction, the top schools job in the state.
Ceballos knows that to win, he has to woo voters outside his party and from all over Wyoming, where two of every three voters are registered Republicans.
So he's going to places like Worland. As of the primary election last month, 579 registered Democrats lived in the whole county.
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Democrat schools chief contender reaches out to Republican heartland