John Bear: Uniparty's Push For Anti-Conservative Wyoming

Cowboy State Daily ^ | 5/20/23 | Wyoming Rep. John Bear

[CFW]

As students, most of us learned that the power of the purse belongs to the legislative branch. Our founders wisely believed that those in charge of spending taxpayer money should be closest to the people- that they should represent them.

If you are politically progressive or live in one of the top five most populated cities in Wyoming, you will find that you are well represented by the Wyoming House Appropriations Committee. If you are traditionally conservative or live in a place other than Cheyenne, Casper or Laramie, you may find that those holding the purse strings wouldn’t agree with you on many matters of policy.

Nearly half of the House Appropriations Committee represents Cheyenne. One member represents Laramie. Another, Casper. Lawmakers from Rock Springs and Lander fill the other two slots. Not only do six of the seven members hail from county seats– urban population centers for a state like ours– every member votes with the Democrats over 80% of the time. That threshold increases when voting on how to spend tax dollars.

[CFW]

Although I'm from the south, I like to keep up-to-date on the political maneuvering of the parties in other states. I pretty much know how things are going to go in states such as California, NY, Oregon and other deeply blue states, but am less familiar with politics of other states

The underlying issues set out by Mr. Bear in this editorial is concerning. Albert Sommers (R) is the speaker of the Wyoming house. He seems to appoint urban "democrat-lite" representatives to a powerful House committee and then gives that committee the authority to gut or amend any legislation before it is presented to the full House for a vote. This is how historically conservative states turn blue.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Small state. Enough left wingers can buy a piece of property there and change voter demographics. Property there is cheap. Throw in a few Manchurian Republicans running for office and it’s doable. That means there must be residency requirements. The’ll find another way to get around it.

[Bonemaker]

You’ll know it’s over if they try to ban AR’s and magazines...in Wyoming of all places!

[Nifster]

Those in power will do whatever to stay in power

[Terry L Smith]

Reading this, I surrmise that Wyoming may suffer the same as NY-NYC//Albany, CALIF-LA/SAN FRAN/, OREGON-Portland, with all the other towns becoming “the great unashed deploranbles”.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

That’s pretty much the rule throughout the West. Nevada is run by Las Vegas and Reno, Arizona by Phoenix and Tucson, and so forth.

[Zathras]

Unlike the DNC, the GOP has no plan.
The DNC has a very detailed plan that they have been executing since 2000 when 15 Billionaires got together to come up with a plan for a “New America”
Bloomberg, J. B. Pritzker, Gates and Buffet were some of them.

Now each of these Billionaires were assigned a task to push.

Bloomberg was assigned the task of fracturing the GOP.
J. B. Pritzker was given the task of promoting the gay agenda and tranny nonsense.
Gates was assigned the task of removing countries and creating one global entity.
Buffet I think was behind the push for illegals as it prevented a possible crash in real estate/social security.
Others were involved in Green Energy, SJW, media control and Antifa.
One is clearly involved in eradicating conservatives.

Now we have the GOP fighting themselves even on FR.
First...stop the name calling and finger pointing on FR or this is not going to go well.

[kaktuskid]

I doubt if the average Californian wants to live on a treeless prairie with cold winters, hot summers, tornadoes, where the official pastime is drinking. This is most of Wyoming.

[sauropod]

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[proud_dad_of_two]

I doubt if the average Californian wants to live on a treeless prairie with cold winters, hot summers, tornadoes, where the official pastime is drinking. This is most of Wyoming.

There are leftists in other states. It's not like Wyoming is a huge state population-wise. I guarantee you there's enough committed leftsts in California, or New York, or Minnesota or any other state with cold weather to make a difference.

Unlike the right/conservatives, the left has absolutely ZERO hang ups in working together even if slight disagreements occur. The ideological purity nonsense the right wing continually uses against itself will be its downfall.

[Wallace T.]

Give Wyoming credit for knocking off Liz Cheney. It also appears that she is not the only RINO who needs to be primaried.

We have a similar problem in Texas, where the Speaker of the House, currently Dale Phelan but previously Joe Straus, has been thwarting conservative legislation through a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans. Phelan has used his power as Speaker of the House to block conservative legislation from the State Senate in committees run by Democrats. The same is true of other states where the GOP runs the governorship, other statewide offices, and both houses of the legislature.

It is past time to purge the RINOs, certainly in the "red" states.

[Recovering_Democrat]

RINOs are trying to ruin conservative Wyoming.

[tired&retired]

This tactic is true in every state.

[Vigilanteman]

The harsh climate keeps a lot of riff-raff lowlifes out of Wyoming.