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The grasslands of northeastern Wyoming are home to Gillette and neighboring Devil’s Tower, the nation’s first national monument. Near the Uinta Mountains in the state’s southwest corner, Evanston borders Utah while nearby Kemmerer boasts the nation’s founding J.C. Penney Department Store and Fossil Butte National Monument. The area ... features the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, a site where petroglyphs and artifacts suggest ancient inhabitants.
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Wyoming is predominantly conservative and politically Republican. The state has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1964, and there are only two reliably Democratic counties. In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Current Vice President Dick Cheney is a Wyoming resident and represented the state in Congress from 1979 to 1989. However, after his term, he resided primarily in Texas, a fact that drew mild criticism from his political opponents when he changed his voter registration back to Wyoming prior to joining George W. Bush's ticket in the 2000 Presidential election.
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Until the late twentieth century, Wyoming had a competitive two-party system with national leaders coming from both political parties. U.S. Senator Francis E. Warren, the leader of the Republican Party in the state during the first decades of statehood, represented the state in the U.S. Senate for a record thirty-seven years until his death in 1929. John B. Kendrick, a popular Democrat, served as governor and then as U.S. senator until his death in 1933. Joseph M. Carey, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1890, served as a Republican in the Senate but was elected governor as a Democrat in 1910. Other prominent political figures have included U.S. senators Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D), Gale McGee (D), and Alan K. Simpson (R). Vice President Richard Cheney represented Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 until his appointment as secretary of defense in 1989.
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Because of its low population, Wyoming only has three votes in the electoral college. It is ... due to this low population that individuals in Wyoming technically have a more powerful vote in presidential elections than anyone else in the United States. For example, while Montana had a 2000 census population of 902,195 to Wyoming's 493,782, they both have the same number of electoral votes.
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Wyoming still operates under its first constitution, adopted in 1890. The executive branch is headed by a governor elected for a four-year term. Republican Jim Geringer won the governorship in 1994 and was reelected in 1998. He was succeeded by Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat, elected in 2002 and again four years later. Wyoming's legislature has a senate with 30 members and a house of representatives with 60 members. The state sends two senators and one representative to the U.S. Congress and has three electoral votes.
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On June25, 2007, Genesee& Wyoming Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that its Mexican subsidiary, Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab, S.A. de C.V. (“FCCM”), was formally notifying the Mexican Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transporte of its intent to cease its rail operations and to terminate its 30-year concession from the Mexican government. The decision to cease FCCM’s operations was made on June22, 2007, and was a result of the damage from Hurricane Stan in October of 2005 to certain bridges and track segments along FCCM’s rail line in the State of Chiapas, as well as the absence of any repairs thereto. FCCM has suffered severe financial consequences as a result of the hurricane and without the reconstruction of the hurricane-damaged line, it is impractical for FCCM to continue its operations.
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