Get Out The Vote … and party!
Posted on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
For a small mountain town, Jackson Hole sure does have a lot of politically active citizens!
TONIGHT’S EVENTS:
*Jay Varley is hosting a party from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary on Jackson Street tonight.
Candidates will meet and greet; party goers will drink free beer and wine and everyone will groove to the band The Rotating Superstructure.
*Pro snowboarder turned restaurateur Julie Zell will host a party at 7 p.m. tonight at her Stone Table restaurant at 850 W. Broadway. DJ Mikey Thunder will drop the beats.
Our radio airwaves ooze political ads (thanks a lot in part to Capt. Bob Morris’ donation), our newspapers feature full page ads from elite athletes and local bloggers can barely post fast enough to keep up with the door-to-door knocking, phone banking and election dance parties springing up in Jackson Hole.
The ads, by athletes such as snowboarders Travis Rice (below) and Rob Kingwill and skier/rodeo queen Crystal Wright (above), are not affiliated with a party or candidate, but simply feature the athletes talking in their own words about the importance of voting.
You may recognize the ad photographs from Heather Erson’s “Revealed” show, that debuted at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary last winter.
This athlete ad campaign was masterminded by Jim Stanford, whose newly relaunched JH Underground site will be working overtime between now and election night covering the candidates and issues.
Go read, go listen, go ask, go party, go vote!
