MARCH 24, 2025|
Photo – Harriett Hageman – Bigfoot99 file photo
Last week’s rowdy town hall meeting in Laramie, with U.S. Representative Harriett Hageman, where an Albany County Democrat leader said was crammed with outsiders, was used by the liberal hosts of ABC’s “The View” as proof that the Trump Administration has created an “existential crisis” in the country.
A short clip from the event aired on the network television show Friday to demonstrate, according to the network-generated text superimposed on the screen, that “Hageman was booed for defending DOGE at Town Hall.”
Many of the more than 500 people gathered at the Town Hall held at the Laramie Civic Center were yelling curses, prompting the Albany County Democratic Party chair to say he was “heartbroken” by the behavior demonstrated at the Republican event.
At one point during the event, Representative Hageman joked with the crowd to stop screaming or they might have a heart attack.
What’s unclear is if the protestors were residents of either Laramie or Wyoming at all. They may have been paid Democrat operatives.
Albany County Democratic Party Chair Klaus Halbsgut told the Cowboy State Daily, “This doesn’t represent Albany County, I’ve lived here too long. I’m heartbroken. This is not who we are.”
Halbsgut also told the media outlet that he suspected that some of the most raucous in the audience were not Albany County residents.
Wherever they were from, Laramie or not, the audience did not demonstrate much in the way of acute listening skills. Hageman was jeered and shouted down from the start as she tried to say that many of the audience’s complaints were unfounded.
Although Hageman won last year’s election in Albany County by a smaller margin than she did in other areas of Wyoming, the Republican still bested her Democrat opponent Kyle G. Cameron by nearly 1,000 votes. According to the published election results, Hageman defeated Cameron with a vote of 8,559 to 7,764.
Here in Carbon County the vote margin in favor of Hageman was more than 4 to 1 during last year’s election: 4,703 to 1,088 for the Democrat.
Statewide, Hageman won with more than a 3-to-1 margin over the Democrat challenger: 184,680 to 60,778.
