Jim Rooks and Pete Muldoon
Jim Rooks and Pete Muldoon Jim Rooks and Pete Muldoon Jim Rooks and Pete Muldoon Jim Rooks and Pete Muldoon

Jim Rooks and Pete Muldoon

Recorded November 1, 2023 Archived November 1, 2023 33:37 minutes
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Id: osh000091

Description

One Small Step conversation partners, Jackson's former mayor Pete Muldoon (50) and current Town Council Member Jim Rooks (52), in their first conversation in front of a live audience at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming. This is the first time they have spoken since the 2020 election when they ran against one another for a town council seat. Their abbreviated conversation is part of Jackson Hole Community Radio's (89.1 FM KHOL) One Small Step Listening Event. The two politicians discuss why they got into politics, their experiences during the 2020 election, and how they want to be remembered for their public service.

Subject Log / Time Code

00:00
Emily Cohen, KHOL Executive Director, introduces Pete Muldoon (PM) and Jim Rooks (JR) to the audience. Alyson Spery (AS), the OSS facilitator, takes the stage at 00:26.
01:00
AS lays out StoryCorps Ground Rules for a respectful conversation. JR and PM introduce themselves.
03:33
PM asks JR why he wanted to have this conversation. PM also explains why he wanted to participate.
06:00
JR reads PM's bio and asks him about his military service.
08:00
PM reads JR's bio and asks him "how's it going?"
10:00
JR & PM talk about why they ran for public office.
15:30
JR asks PM about his experience during the 2020 election. "It wasn't fun" PM says. And JR talks about his own experience. JR says, "I look back on it now and I don't recognize myself."
22:15
JR says "Being in office is intense. Its really hard on our families, which is why I like One [Small] Step because it doesn't have to be so poisonous and caustic."
23:15
JR says regarding what he wants PM to know about him, "we may have some ideological differences but I watched you as mayor for 4 years and there's not a long list...." JR also talks about regretting that he didn't honor PMs service as mayor before.
26:45
PM says he regrets things he said during his campaign in 2016. "I understand how something like that can happen, how we get caught up in the moment."
28:20
Both answer how they want to be remembered for their public service.

Participants

  • Jim Rooks
  • Pete Muldoon

Recording Locations

Center for the Arts

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