Wyoming is a very red state; in 2020, Trump beat Biden 70%-27% there, and its legislature sports 57 Republicans to 12 Democrats. But the state is so sparsely populated it has only one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Like its governor and U.S. senators, its congressperson is a statewide el[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wyoming’
November 15th, 2021 - 7:57 pm § in Politics
Is Liz Cheney a Republican?
Liz Cheney (R-WY) was elected to Congress as a Republican. She describes herself as a staunch conservative. Nobody can really argue with that; her voting record proves it. But the Wyoming GOP’s central committee voted 31-29 to “no longer recognize [her] as a member of the GOP” on S[...]
Wyoming’s legislative emergency
The emergency is vaccine mandates. And a special session is being convened to pass GOP-sponsored bills which “call for banning vaccine passports and enacting $500,000 fines for companies that fire, demote, promote, compensate or refuse to hire an individual based on whether they are inoculated[...]
June 12th, 2015 - 7:45 pm § in Politics
It’s now a crime in Wyoming to collect pollution samples
Wyoming’s GOP legislature recently expanded its war against the environment by making it illegal to collect evidence of pollution. The bill was pushed by cattle ranchers embroiled in a lawsuit with an environmental group. (Click here for story) Photo: You’re allowed to smell it, but you&[...]