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The Back Forty is focused on fortifying and growing rural America, family farmers and ranchers and the communities that surround them. We work to ensure rural America gets the protections, representation, and policies they need to thrive. As the world’s largest food producing nation, American agriculture provides food, economic opportunities, prosperity, and millions of jobs locally, throughout the country and around the world and that deserves all our support.
The Back Forty recognizes that across America, family farmers and ranchers, provide us with the ingredients that add up to the totality of every one of our meals. Every breakfast, every lunch, every dinner and every snack in-between, is available to all of us because of the hard work they do, rain or shine, every day and night, across the country. We recognize that our representatives are not doing enough to support rural America’s needs. Our work includes improving support for farmers and ranchers, public education, infrastructure, healthcare and economic development.
We’re The Back Forty, and we don’t care if you’re on the right, or the left, or somewhere in the middle, we just ask that you listen with an open mind, and an open heart. We care about rural America and we know that if we take care of them, we take care of us.
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More About Will Westmoreland
Will Westmoreland was born into farming through generations of farmers beginning in Brighton, Missouri. After excelling at sports in his youth, despite serious injury obtained on the family farm, It was in the speech and debate arena where Westmoreland truly shined. Winning multiple awards in Extemporaneous Speaking and Debate, Will placed third in the nation in LincolnDouglas Debate and received a full scholarship to Missouri State University where his love for politics was born.
In 1992 Westmoreland was hired into his first political role serving as Field Coordinator for the Clinton-Gore campaign in Columbus, Ohio. He later served as the Young Democrats President in Franklin County, Ohio and as the Volunteer Coordinator for Clinton’s National Health Care Campaign in Ohio.
Throughout several career shifts that young people often experience while building their lives, Will continued to act as a Democratic political consultant and served in multiple elected positions within the Democratic Party in North Carolina and Missouri.
Ultimately in 2015, Will’s love of politics won out and his growing experience led him to found Highlander Political Strategies. Westmoreland’s firm currently works with Democratic organizations and candidates, labor organizations, and non-profits with voter outreach in nearly every state in the union. Highlander Political Strategies notably played a critical role in the 2020 special elections in Georgia which led to the control of the United States Senate.
Westmoreland specializes in rural voter outreach and is known on social media as “Your Favorite Rural Campaign and Elections Expert.”
As a single dad who raised his four children, and a proud grandfather of five, and a devoted Episcopalian, Will’s farming expertise in agroforestry, his faith, and his career as a winning strategist, has led him to launch, along with his experienced media partner, The Back Forty Media that seeks to both inform and activate those who share his views and those seeking the truth. With an emphasis on rural politics and farming, there is no one more qualified for the task.
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