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Wyoming in Laramie and study politi-
cal science. “It was really a sea change
for a small town kid like me …There’s a
lot of good memories from that era of
“[THE WHITE HOUSE] PICKED THE RIGHT our life.”
For starters, it’s where he met his
PARTNER IN TRUCKING. wife Michelle almost 26 years ago.
WE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT.” “I didn’t think she liked me for
the first semester. I thought it was her
roommate who liked me, but it was
actually my soon-to-be wife. It took me
a while to untangle that and figure it
in Wyoming, serve in a presidential sion working in transportation, trucks out, but when I did, we dated for three
administration, work for a multi-billion have always been a part of his landscape years, my sophomore year through grad-
dollar international corporation and get since he was a child. Auburn was a uation, and then got married.”
very good at storytelling, because he’s farming community. His friends’ par- Spear got his graduate degree in
now responsible for telling the stories of ents were farmers and owned trucks public administration and began work
the 7.4 million people who work in the to move agricultural products and live- for Sen. Allen Simpson (R-Wy.) Then, in
trucking industry. stock. His father, a teacher and coach the early ’90s, the newlyweds moved to
For Spear, those stories aren’t at the local high school, spent summers the Beltway when Sen. Simpson asked
myths or stereotypes or legends. They trucking grain, doing odd jobs and Spear to come work in his D.C. office
are real, American nonfiction accounts moving the harvest to nearby silos. and learn how Washington works. His
of the people who travel the roads that Trucking was an integral part of wife came and worked for Wyoming
connect the Pacific to Atlantic, city to the livelihood of the community. Sen. Thomas. They were just out of col-
country, and heartland to Beltway. After graduation, Spear left lege, he says, both working on the Hill,
Though Spear says he didn’t envi- Nebraska to attend the University of hardly making enough money together

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