The last edition was simply too unwieldy.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus puts its cards on the table in the form of its "five and dime" plan for the 2025 legislature. The incoming Speaker of the House, a member, even went on Trump propaganda forum Newsmax, to tout it.
It's agenda for the 2025 legislature is below:
ELECTION INTEGRITY: Require Proof of WY Residency & US Citizenship When Registering to Vote
Not too surprisingly, this is sort of horseshit. You have to verify your address, already, every time you vote. We've been doing it for years. Now we have to present a photo ID as well.
Oh, I'll do it. I'll present piles of stuff showing that I'm an actual Wyomingite and didn't move in from somewhere. Quite a few of the Freedom Caucus, if asked to do that, would be shown to be people who moved in here.
IMMIGRATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Invalidate Driver Licenses Issued to Illegals by Other Jurisdictions
- WHAT: Invalidate driver licenses issued to illegal aliens present in WY.
Wyoming has no legal authority to invalidate another state's driver's licenses, and the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution makes that illegal.
People who have taken an oath to the Constitution, by the way, like legislators, can't back this without violating their oath.
STOPPING THE WOKE AGENDA AT UW: Prohibiting D.E.I. in Higher Education
There isn't a "woke" agenda at UW.
Investing in the "highest rate of return" means you will invest in things that aren't necessary in line with our core industries, some of which are a bad economic bet right now.
CUTTING TAXES: Real Property Tax Relief
- WHY: The people of WY have been crushed by years of skyrocketing property taxes.
Populism in Wyoming is heavily populated by out of staters who moved in here, causing property taxes to rise. Now they're going to cut what they caused, with no way to pay for anything.
A better strategy would be to impose a tax on the value of the last house you sold, no matter where you sold it, and leave the current property taxes alone.
January 9, 2025
It wasn't clear to me but the dime portion of the "5 and 10" plan is to pass the five bills in the first ten days of the legislature.
January 10, 2025
This will be interesting.
2025 | STATE OF WYOMING | 25LSO-0513 |
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0099
Access to public lands-corner crossing.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Provenza, Andrew, Campbell, E, Larson, JT and Wharff and Senator(s) Jones, Rothfuss and Schuler
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing an exception to the offenses of criminal trespass and game-and-fish trespass regarding incidental contact associated with crossing two (2) adjacent parcels as specified; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. W.S. 6‑3‑303 by creating a new subsection (d) and 23‑3‑305(b) are amended to read:
6‑3‑303. Criminal trespass; penalties; exception.
(d) For purposes of this section, a person does not commit criminal trespass if the person incidentally passes through the airspace or touches the land or premises of another person while the person is traveling from one (1) parcel of land that the person is authorized to access to another parcel of land that shares a common corner with or is immediately connected to the first parcel and that the person is authorized to access.
23‑3‑305. Hunting from highway; entering enclosed property without permission; penalty; hunting at night without permission prohibited; exception.
(b) No person shall enter upon, travel through or return across the private property of any person to take wildlife, hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns, or trap without the permission of the owner or person in charge of the property. Violation of this subsection constitutes a low misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 23‑6‑202(a)(v). For purposes of this subsection, "travel through or return across" requires physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property. For purposes of this subsection, a person does not commit trespass under this subsection if the person incidentally passes through the airspace or touches the land or premises of another person while the person is traveling from one (1) parcel of land that the person is authorized to access to another parcel of land that shares a common corner with or is immediately connected to the first parcel and that the person is authorized to access.
Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2025.
This is a Democratic bill. The Democrats have traditionally been the party that comes to the rescue in Wyoming when the GOP begins to descend into feudalism regarding land.
If the populist really care what Wyomingites think, this should past.
My guess is that it won't.
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