March 17, 2024
Donald Trump warned in a speech in Ohio that elections will end and there will be a "bloodbath" if he isn't elected.
Elections surely will not end if he is not elected, but the bloodbath part is probably worth listening too and will be taken by some as a call to arms.
March 20, 2024
Wyoming Clerk Says Gray's Office Doing Little To Promote Crossover Voting Change
March 21, 2024
Affie Ellis, Wyoming's First Native Woman Legislator, Won't Run For Reelection
March 23, 2024
The legislative battle of the Real Republicans v. the Populists is shaping up quickly in Wyoming. That race between what is really two separate political parties will be fought out in the primary.
Maybe that's a reason to stay in the moribund GOP?
Cyrus Western, Sheridan, is dropping out of the Senate.
Natrona County native Christopher Dresang is running against Rep. Tony Locke for House District 35. Unusually, he's coming in supporting teachers and hammering Locke for her far right votes on the budget. She is not part of the Freedom Caucus, however. She's was raised in Wyoming, but left it before apparently returning to her current district.
Kathy Russell of the GOP far right has announced a run against Rep. Bob Nicholas (R-Cheyenne) in House District 7.
Ann Lucas of the far right is running against Dale Zwonitzer for House District 43. Zwonitzer is a highly respected Republican moderate, who is also a homosexual, and who has been attacked by hte far right before.
North Carolina import Mark Jones is challenging incumbent Barry Crago (R-Buffalo) for House District 40 giving us yet another example of how populism is an import into the state to a significant degree.
Fellow carpetbagger Tom Olmstead self-described “political refugee” from Colorado, is challenging Sen. Ed Cooper (R-Ten Sleep) for Senate District 20.
Gregg Smith, retired U.S. Army is challenging Sen. Tara Nethercott (R-Cheyenne) for Senate District 4. Nethercott. The state has also seen an influx of "I'm a veteran and I hate the government" candidates in recent years, although I don't know anything about Smith. I am highly skeptical of candidates that milked the government cow for decades coming in and running as fiscal conservatives, however.
The WEA, which must be preparing to field a run against Jeanette Ward, resumed their ad campaign against her in the Tribune today. Ward replied with a long letter to the editor in the. . . Oil City News.
That letter stated, in part:
Ward's "reckoning" on that last item is almost certainly wrong if she thinks the WEA doesn't have their voice. The WEA is the most powerful union in the state for a reason. The teachers support it.
March 25, 2024
In something spectacularly contrary to the norm, Meet The Press, which recorded an interview with Ronna McDaniel before they knew that she'd been hired to be a commentator for NBC, ripped into their own network calling it discredited, and McDaniel a liar. Chuck Todd, whom normally I don't care for, was called back into service to call NBC into question.
They really deserve credit. The interview didn't pull any punches, and they've now called their own network into account.
Closer to home, the Foster Freiss created organ The Cowboy State Daily, through its commentator and satirist Rod Miller, who is pretty independent in his views, pointed out something I wondered about here the other day, which was the odd appearance of the Secretary of State at a Natrona County session on a proposed gravel pit. The more a person learns about it, the more it seems to be an early appearance of the 2026 election in some ways. Things seem to be already heating up, and we haven't even held the 2024 election yet.
2026 might be quite a bit different from 2024. This will probably all be in the rearview mirror by then.
March 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is now selling the “God Bless the USA Bible” as part of his campaign funding effort. The King James version of the Bible comes with a copy of the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence the Pledge of Allegiance, and the lyrics of a chorus of Lee Greenwood's God Bless The USA.
Frankly, this is a new low for Trump, for whom there is no real evidence of any deep religious convictions and whose personal life would provide evidence to the contrary. Somehow some Christians, particularly, but not exclusively, those of an Evangelical bent have taken to seeing him as some sort of favorable figure in this light, with some going further than that.
It's interesting that the con artists in both the classic Paper Moon and Oh Brother! Where Art Thou?, make their living selling Bibles.
Ronna McDaniel has already lost her job with NBC.
In other news:
Secretary
Gray Celebrates Wyoming Supreme Court's Dismissal of Appeal in Newcomb v.
Chuck Gray Lawsuit
CHEYENNE, WY – On March 25, 2024, the
Wyoming Supreme Court dismissed an appeal brought by Tim Newcomb to remove
Trump from the ballot in Wyoming, Newcomb v. Chuck Gray. This follows
a previous dismissal of Mr. Newcomb’s lawsuit in Wyoming District Court, and a
unanimous decision from the Supreme Court of the United States keeping Trump on
the ballot in 2024.
“I have been working hard to keep President
Trump on the ballot,” Secretary of State Chuck Gray said. “I’m extremely
pleased with the Wyoming Supreme Court’s dismissal of Mr. Newcomb’s
outrageously wrong lawsuit. Radical leftists and liberal elites have tried
everything they can to weaponize the Fourteenth Amendment against Trump and the
American People, but this dismissal marks continued vindication for the truth
and for liberty. As Secretary of State, Wyoming’s chief election officer for
the state, I will always fight to ensure the people of Wyoming can choose who
to elect for themselves.”
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I have to admit, I'm struck by how often populists use terms like "radical leftists". The retired lawyer involved in this is hardly a "radical leftist", but it's the use of the term itself. I can't recall a time, at least since the 1950s, when invective was so often attached to political messaging. I wish it would stop.
The use of the term "elites" by populist is interesting as well. All in all, to be an elite is, well, to be elite. It's a form of compliment most of the time, but in populist speech it's meant to imply the opposite of native sense, or common sense, the irony being that everyone in elective higher office in Wyoming is well-educated and therefore part of an elite.
Oh, well. This opinion must have come out yesterday, but it apparently hasn't been released yet. When it is, I'll post it.
cont:
Now Never-Trump Attorney Will Attempt To Keep Chuck Gray Off Wyoming Ballots
Cont:
Independent Presidential Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced that Nicole Shanahan, 38, a wealthy attorney, is his running mate. Shanahan, like Donald Trump, is a serial polygamist with an interesting past. This gadfly run is going nowhere, and likely a lot of people won't know that this even occured.
March 27, 2024
Retired Senator Joe Lieberman, who was part of the No Labels Committee searching for a candidate for that organization, has died following injuries sustained in a fall.
Something not made clear in the original articles about it, but cleared up by the Trib, is that the local lawsuit on the 14th Amendment was dismissed, at the appellate stage, by the Plaintiff/Appellant, not the court, in light of the recent S.Ct decision.
Park Count declined to appropriate $60,000 for electronic poll books for the 2024 elections and will continue to only use paper records.
Trump is making an appearance at a NTPD officers funeral.
He also accused Barack Obama of “spitting in the face” of Americans in connection with calls to the White House.
Kari Lake isn't appearing in the defamation suit against her, essentially conceding it.
March 30, 2024
The Legislature’s Management Council sent a letter to Gov. Mark Gordon recommending rejection of Secretary of State Gray’s proposed rules to tighten voter registration requirements.
April 1, 2024
Over the weekend, the Biden campaign had a record-breaking fundraiser featuring Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Trump released this weird missive on Easter Sunday:
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING IN THE D.A.’s OFFICE, ILLEGALLY INDICTED ME ON A CASE HE NEVER WANTED TO BRING AND VIRTUALLY ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY IS A CASE THAT SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT, IS BREAKING THE LAW IN DOING SO (POMERANTZ!), WAS TURNED DOWN BY ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES, AND IS NOT A CRIME. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
It turns out that Chris Christie seriously considered a No Labels run, but decided against it.
April 2, 2024
Freedom Caucus Endorses Candidates In University Of Wyoming Student Election
April 4, 2024
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus is using the recent vote not to have an expensive special session of the legislature called as a campaign point.
This may prove to be an error, as Wyomingites are traditionally cynical about the legislature being called into session to address what it failed to do, particularly as in this case the Freedom Caucus repeatedly gumming up the works of the short budget session provides at least a partial reason why the bills they favored were lingering for signature after they adjourned.
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