Congressional hopeful enjoys an afternoon at the fair

Among the kids caring for their animals and adults enjoying the sights, U.S. Senate hopeful Reid Rasner spent an afternoon last week soaking in the atmosphere at the Crook County Fair.

Rasner was making the most of his time here, he said – not just enjoying fair, but also meeting with locals, including veterans. Stymied by road construction, he'd arrived a little later than planned.

"We'll still make the most of it, I just didn't get to enjoy the ice cream social," he smiled.

Crook County's fair was somewhere around the 175th local event that Rasner has attended since he started campaigning last August. He averages just under 2000 miles a week, he says.

It's about enjoying the best of each of Wyoming's communities, he said, and becoming a fixture in order to make sure people know that, "I'm going to be here for them, I'm going to come back for them and their voice is going to Washington, D.C."

"Noone will ever out-work me and I will always come back to Wyoming," he says.

Wyoming's voice has been missing in the capital for two decades, he says, and he believes he's the right man to fix that problem. On the days he's not legislating in the nation's capital, he intends to still be mingling with the locals at events around the state.

And when he does, he promises that he will be answering people's questions and hosting the town halls he believes his constituents would want.

"I like to say that, when I'm elected, it's not just Reid getting elected – it's 578,000 of my best friends going to Washington, D.C. with me and they can't stop us all," he says.

A financial advisor, Rasner says a group of clients asked him to run for the U.S. Senate.

"My clients are primarily military and energy workers. My military members were dishonorably discharged for refusing the vaccine and they kept asking me, 'Reid, what do we do? How do we manage our money? Where are we going from here?'," he says.

Some of these clients, he continues, were only a few years from retirements and found themselves without the benefits they had been expecting to have available.

There wasn't much Rasner could do for them as a financial advisor, he says – but he did eventually agree to their request.

"I've been on the road ever since and we're going to fight like hell for these guys and gals," he says.

Rasner's next hope is that he'll have the opportunity to debate his opponent, incumbent Barrasso, and he hopes his supporters will help him lobby to make it happen.