Posted on 08/24/2024 4:38:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
Not even the members of the farther right Wyoming Freedom Caucus expected to dominate Tuesday’s Republican primary the way it did.
Barring an unlikely Democratic surge and/or storm of Independent candidates in the general election, the Freedom Caucus is likely to have a comfortable majority in the Wyoming House for the upcoming session.
With that in mind, House Majority Floor Leader Rep. Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, could have a relatively easy path in getting elected Speaker of the House, a campaign Neiman confirmed to Cowboy State Daily on Friday he intends to pursue.
“I’m going to offer my time and services,” he said.
If elected Speaker, Neiman, now the No. 2 member of the House, would become the second legislator from northeast Wyoming to fill one of the top leadership roles in the Legislature after Senate President Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, who’s coming to the end of his tenure.
But he, Driskill and current Speaker Albert Sommers, R-Pinedale, have very different backgrounds and political allegiances.
Neiman would become one of the least experienced legislators to rise to the No. 1 position in the House after only taking office in 2021. Driskill and Sommers have more traditional levels of experience, first elected in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
“It’s unheard of to have someone that inexperienced in that job,” former House Speaker Tom Lubnau told Cowboy State Daily on Friday.
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“It’s unheard of to have someone that inexperienced in that job,” former House Speaker Tom Lubnau told Cowboy State Daily on Friday.
Just for some background, the sitting House Speaker was running for a state Senate seat and lost.
And the speaker pro tempore (who loved Liz Cheney) was defeated in his primary.
Sounds like the Bush Cheneyites are drowning in tears.
Conservatism was only something for the neoCON globohomo RINO scum to pay lip service to on occasion, while they instituted their G W MORONG / Cheney-style MIC crony capitalism / globohomoism and ruined the lives of main street Americans.
Trump changed everything, and that is why they hate him. The RINOs hate him every bit as much if not more than the leftists.
Wyoming-deep red. Where’s the heavy lifting?
Spot on.
What about the really really super duper extreme far right? Were they not available?
This is a RINO purging. Fake conservatives being ousted is heavy lifting. Most would be content because they have a Republican with little chance of a dem making it. Continuation of the Lizard cleansing.
They mean someone who hasn’t been bought yet.
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