The first known indoor hockey match took place at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Quebec.
The Page Act, which we already discussed, keeping out Chinese women on dubious grounds, went into effect.
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The Page Act of 1875 banned the immigration of Chinese women into the United States on the assumption that they were all being imported as prostitutes. They could obtain exemption from the act, but the invasive procedures required effectively deterred them from attempting to do so. The situation was complicated by the practices of polygamy and concubinage in Chinese culture. Prostitution was not uncommon, but then it was not uncommon in the US in general.
There were other restrictions as well, but that was the main one The act was the first exclusionary immigration law in US history.
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The Germans launched Operation Solstice with the goal of relieving Küstrin.
The Mostar Operation ended in victory for Yugoslav partisans.
Elmer Charles Bigelow performed the actions that resulted in his winning a Medal of Honor. His citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving on board the U.S.S. Fletcher during action against enemy Japanese forces off Corregidor Island in the Philippines, February 14, 1945. Standing topside when an enemy shell struck the Fletcher, BIGELOW, acting instantly as the deadly projectile exploded into fragments which penetrated the No. 1 gun magazine and set fire to several powder cases, picked up a pair of fire extinguishers and rushed below in a resolute attempt to quell the raging flames. Refusing to waste the precious time required to don rescue-breathing apparatus, he plunged through the blinding smoke billowing out of the magazine hatch and dropped into the blazing compartment. Despite the acrid, burning powder smoke which seared his lungs with every agonizing breath, he worked rapidly and with instinctive sureness and succeeded in quickly extinguishing the fires and in cooling the cases and bulkheads, thereby preventing further damage to the stricken ship. Although he succumbed to his injuries on the following day, BIGELOW, by his dauntless valor, unfaltering skill and prompt action in the critical emergency, had averted a magazine explosion which undoubtedly would have left his ship wallowing at the mercy of the furiously pounding Japanese guns on Corregidor, and his heroic spirit of self-sacrifice in the face of almost certain death enhanced and sustained the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life in the service of his country.
Helmut Möckel may, or may not have, died in a car crash. He was the head of the Hitler Youth. There have been persistent rumors his death was faked and that he escaped to Spain.
The Red Army surrounded Breslau.
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A gentle moment
I was standing in the confession line behind her. A young man came up behind me. I realized, as I'd come in and went straight into line (I'm now 62, and well aware of my sins) I'd cut him off, as he came up from praying in the back of the church.
I immediately said "I cut you off, you can go in front of me", but he smiled and said "It doesn't matter".
She was nicely dressed, wearing a full length skirt and a nice one.
He reached around me and handed her something, which I thought was a handkerchief (she did in fact have a cold). It wasn't, it was her mantilla She put it on.
I thought they were likely brother and sister. He was very nicely dressed and they were both young, in their early 20s.
When I left, they were in different quarters of the church praying. I recognized her now that I could see her face. She's one of the "Mantilla Girls", but one I see rarely. I didn't recognize him. They were in fact, not together. He just noticed she'd dropped her mantilla.
The old rural Catholics
I was wearing, on the day of confession, Carhartt trousers and my very old Carhartt jacket. I hadn't shaved.
It was Saturday.
I don't like shaving. I started shaving when I was 13, and by that, I mean at some point when I was 13 I was shaving every day. Next year I will have been shaving for 50 years.
When I was 13, I learned to save with a "safety razor". I, in fact, owned a safety razor at age 13. I first shaved with disposable head razors in basic training. It was only a few years later, but there's a lifetime between 13 and 18.
I've recently received, in one fashion or another, a couple of reminders to Catholics in general that they ought to dress appropriately at Mass. It is, I'd note, sort of a Catholic thing in a way, in some areas, kind of not to. Not that we're intentionally dressing down, but for a lot of us going to Mass is so common that we in fact dress down, as its Sunday. In some regions, we don't dress up and indeed, as we're used to going to Mass with college students, blue collar workers, sheepherders, ranchers, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, well, we don't.
The local Priest suggested we ought to dress nicely. He's from a farm and had a conversation with me regarding sheep on the way into Mass recently. Fr. Joseph Krupp, who himself often looks a little like a guy who might ride a Harley, and I think at one time did, suggested the same.
They're right of course.
Well, it was Sunday today. I went to Mass wearing Carhartt trousers and my very old Carhartt coat.
The coat is warm.
A bit much
I sometimes see comments about yoga pants.
I don't pay much attention to such comments.
I ran into the very nice, and quite Catholic, son of a person I know very well the other day. He's a nice young man. He was with his girlfriend, who is probably a nice young woman. She is the daughter of an Assemblies of God minister.
She was wearing yoga pants.
They were so tight that, frankly, they left nothing to the imagination. Absent wearing bikini bottoms, there would have been nothing less appropriate to wear in mixed company than I could imagine.
And its January.
Makes me appreciate the Mantilla Girls all the more.
The old age refuses to yieldeth
At Mass, to my massive discredit, I ran into somebody, but only remotely, who generally irritates me.
That's probably sinful on my part.
I've known said person my entire professional life. I knew his sister when we were in high school by which time I'll note he was already a lawyer. She was a great person and I still lament her tragic death as a passenger in an automobile when it wrecked. I knew, but less well, one of her sisters who died in the same wreck.
Horrible.
Anyhow, the person in question must have graduated high school nearly a decade in advance of me, which means that he must be over 70 years old now. He's still actively practicing law.
I've concluded that this is toxic, if you are doing it full time, to your personality.
I also don't like that he holds his hands in the air when certain prayers are said, and he's huge so its hard to ignore. That's the orans position, and in actuality there's good reason to do that. That's what the early Christian faithful, who were all Catholics, did when the Lord's Prayer was said.
Well, I don't like it.
And that means I need to work on this.
I'd note that his fellow doesn't particularly acknowledge me at Mass, but then I don't go out of the way to acknowledge him either. If we run into each other in Court, well. . . we're old pals.
The Mantilla girl and the young man, and the cowboy couple I noted several weeks ago, are better than either of us.
The stubborn German
Germans, it appear, have a reputation for being stubborn.
I have what people perceive as being a very German last name.
I have a very Irish first name.
I've never thought this odd, but then, who thinks their own names odd. For one reason or another, I've always considered myself an Irish American.
My father didn't like anyone considering himself this or that. No Hyphenated Americans. He thought we were all Americans. He'd grown up, I'd note, while World War Two was on, when nobody considered themselves German Americans.
Some people are really proud of that now.
Well, by decent today, I'd be 1/4 German. But genetically, due to the weird way that works, I'm more Irish than a lot of people who live in Ireland. And for that matter, I'd further note, my father's mother was of 100% Irish extraction, and in Irish American household even when my father was young, the mother's ruled the abhaile.
Father's sacrificed for their families, particularly in Catholic families.
The last name, fwiw, is Westphalian. A person with it is just as likely to be Dutch, as German. I was once asked by an Albertan if my ancestors were Dutch, for that reason. Westphalia became a Prussian possession in 1807, much to the discontent of Catholic Westphalians, who weren't keen in being ruled by a Lutheran emperor. After the revolutions of 1848 a lot of Westphalians departed for the United States, sick of being rules by an undemocratic Prussian.
My Westphalian ancestors left about that time. I don't know why, they didn't write it down.
Anyhow, genetically, I'm Irish.
And in my ancestor there were those Irish who, given the choice between converting to Protestantism and keeping their occupation, ro being exiled, chose exile.
Stubborn?
I don't think I am, but I guess people perceive me that way. I've been told that more than once.
German?
Not really.
Three weeks after receiving the petition of an interracial couple the Cherokee General Council passed an act outlawing marriage between "negro slaves and Indians, or whites".
Frankly, I can see why they'd outlaw the one against whites, given the oppression they'd face, but slaves was a bit much.
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Task Force 38 struck targets on Luzon, losing 25 aircraft. The USS Lexington was damaged in Kamikaze attacks. The Japanese lost 400 planes and the cruiser Nachi.
The British 8th Army captured Ravenna. The victory cutoff rail transportation to Bologna.
The British landed at Salonika.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905
Well, first of all, I also said there were a lot of benefits to that wave of immigration, but has anybody ever seen the movie ‘Gangs of New York’? That’s what I’m talking about. We know that when you have these massive ethnic enclaves forming in our country, it can sometimes lead to higher crime rates.
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What happens when you have massive amounts of illegal immigration? It actually starts to create ethnic conflict. It creates higher crime rates.
J. D. Vance
Is Vance right?
Keep in mind, I'm just basically fact checking here, not trying to make a political point.
Secondly, Gangs of New York is a horrible motion picture and historically inaccurate.1
So let's start with the two basic assertions. When you have:
Alonzo Stepp born in Kentucky.
His story:
Georgians rebelled against the Soviet Union in the August Uprising.
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A mob of white men broke into the Gibson County, Tennessee Jail, in Treton and lynched sixteen black prisoners.
They had been accused of shooting two white men.
The following day the Mayor of Trenton ordered the firearms of all of Trenton's black residents confiscated, under pain of death, a clearly unconstitutional action.
Things like this, and the event of the day prior, help demonstrate the value of the Second Amendment.
The National Rifle Association, fwiw, was formed just three years prior, but at that time principally engaged in promoting marksmanship.
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U.S. Army Lieutenants Lowell Smith and and the appropriately named and Swedish born Erik Nelson landed in Frederiksdah, Greenland at Frederiksdal.
Competitors Antonio Locatelli and a crew of three of Italy, went down in the sea in Greenland and were later by the USS Richmond (CL-9).
Nelson went on to a long career in the Air Force and retired in 1946. He passed away in Hawaii in 1970. Smith, who had served in the Mexican Revolution under Pancho Villa, did as well, but his life was not as long, dying in 1945 as the result of a injuries sustained in a horse accident. He was 53.
President Coolidge wrote a letter to the National Negro Business League promising support for African American Constitutional rights.Last edition:
The old order changeth yielding place to new
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Kamala Harris indicated that she will run for and earn the nomination, which means she acknowledges that she doesn't yet have it.
Joe Manchin, age 77, who recently registered as an independent, is thinking of registering again as a Democrat to compete for the nomination.
The Democratic Convention starts on August 19.
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Machin has decided not to run.
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Based on twitter, an early Trumpist tactic in regard to Biden is to attack her on her relationship with California Speaker of the House, Willie Brown, back when she was 29 years old. Brown was 60 at the time and had been separated from his wife for a decade.
Mind you, I'm Catholic and don't approve of divorce at all, but how ironic, given Trump's serial polygamy and current questions regarding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
July 23, 2024
Kamala Harris has lined up enough delegate support to secure the Democratic nomination.
A PAC supporting the Wyoming Freedom Caucus has sent out a mailer against certain politicians containing an absolute lie that the targets of the ad voted to keep Donald Trump off of the ballot. They did no such thing, they voted to require lawsuits initiated by state political figures to be brought by the state if they used state funds.
July 24, 2024
Wyoming Democrats endorsed Harris.
Alaska Congressman Mary Sattler Peltola did not, saying that she wouldn't vote for Trump, would vote for somebody "pro choice", but couldn't ask Alaskans to vote for somebody who wasn't "pro energy", showing the difficulty of being a Democrat in a Republican state.
The Trump campaign, which is reeling from the Harris nomination, filed a FEC complaint over Biden campaign funds going to Harris.
Wyoming's Congressman Hageman stated:
Intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel...I think she was a DEI hire. And I think that that's what we're seeing, and I just don't think that they have anybody else.
This is already drawing attention as its a fairly shocking statement.
July 25, 2025
President Biden addressed the nation last night.
My fellow Americans, I’m speaking to you tonight from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. In this sacred space, I’m surrounded by portraits of extraordinary American presidents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the immortal words that guide this nation. George Washington showed us presidents are not kings. Abraham Lincoln implored us to reject malice. Franklin Roosevelt inspired us to reject fear.
I revere this office, but I love my country more. It’s been the honor of my life to serve as your president. But in the defense of democracy, which is at stake, I think it’s more important than any title. I draw strength and find joy in working for the American people. But this sacred task of perfecting our union is not about me, it’s about you. Your families, your futures.
It’s about we the people. And we can never forget that. And I never have. I’ve made it clear that I believe America is at an inflection point. On those rare moments in history, when the decisions we make now determine our fate of our nation and the world for decades to come, America is going to have to choose between moving forward or backward, between hope and hate, between unity and division.
We have to decide: Do we still believe in honesty, decency, respect, freedom, justice and democracy. In this moment, we can see those we disagree with not as enemies but as, I mean, fellow Americans — can we do that? Does character in public life still matter? I believe you know the answer to these questions because I know you the American people, and I know this:
We are a great nation because we are a good people. When you elected me to this office, I promised to always level with you, to tell you the truth. And the truth, the sacred cause of this country, is larger than any one of us. Those of us who cherry that cause cherish it so much. The cause of American democracy itself. We must unite to protect it.
In recent weeks, it has become clear to me that I need to unite my party in this critical endeavor. I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America’s future, all merited a second term. But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition.
So I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. It’s the best way to unite our nation. I know there was a time and a place for long years of experience in public life. There’s also a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices, yes, younger voices. And that time and place is now.
Over the next six months, I will be focused on doing my job as president. That means I will continue to lower costs for hard-working families, grow our economy. I will keep defending our personal freedoms and civil rights, from the right to vote to the right to choose. I will keep calling out hate and extremism, making it clear there is no place, no place in America for political violence or any violence ever, period. I’m going to keep speaking out to protect our kids from gun violence, our planet from climate crisis as an existential threat.
I will keep fighting for my Cancer Moonshot, so we can end cancer as we know it because we can do it. I’m going to call for Supreme Court reform because this is critical to our democracy — Supreme Court reform. You know, I will keep working to ensure American remains strong, secure and the leader of the free world.
I’m the first president of this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world. We will keep rallying a coalition of proud nations to stop Putin from taking over Ukraine and doing more damage. We’ll keep NATO stronger, and I will make it more powerful and more united than any time in all of our history. I will keep doing the same for our allies in the Pacific. You know, when I came to the office, the conventional wisdom was that China would inevitably pass, surpass the United States.
That’s not the case anymore. And I’m going to keep working to end the war in Gaza, bring home all the hostages and bring peace and security to the Middle East and end this war. We are also working around the clock to bring home Americans being unjustly detained all around the world.
You know, we’ve come so far since my inauguration. On that day, I told you as I stood in that winter — we are stood in a winter of peril and winter of possibilities. Peril and possibilities. We are in the group of, we were in the group of the worse pandemic in the century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. We came together as Americans. We got through it. We emerged stronger, more prosperous and more secure.
Today we have the strongest economy in the world, creating nearly 16 million new jobs — a record. Wages are up, inflation continues to come down, the racial wealth gap is the lowest it’s been in 20 years. We are literally rebuilding our entire nation — urban, suburban and rural and tribal communities. Manufacturing has come back to America. We are leading the world again in chips and science and innovation. We finally beat Big Pharma after all these years to lower the cost of prescription drugs for seniors.
And I’m going to keep fighting to make sure we lower the cost for everyone, not just seniors. More people have health care today in America than ever before. I signed one of the most significant laws helping millions of veterans and their families who were exposed to toxic materials. You know, most significant climate law ever, ever in the history of the world. The first major gun safety law in 30 years.
And today, the violent crime rate is at a 50-year low. We are also securing our border. Border crossings are lower today than when the previous administration left office. I’ve kept my commitment to appoint the first Black woman to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. I also kept my commitment to have an administration that looks like America and be a president for all Americans. That’s what I’ve done.
I ran for president four years ago because I believed and still do that the soul of America was at stake. The very nature of who we are was at stake. That is still the case. America is an idea. An idea stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. It’s the most powerful idea in the history of the world. That idea is that we hold these truths to be self-evident.
We are all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. We’ve never fully lived up to it — to this sacred idea — but we’ve never walked away from it either. And I do not believe the American people will walk away from it now.
In just a few months, the American people will choose the course of America’s future. I made my choice. I’ve made my views known. I would like to thank our great vice president, Kamala Harris. She is experienced, she is tough, she is capable. She’s been an incredible partner to me and a leader for our country.
Now the choice is up to you, the American people. When you make that choice, remember the words of Benjamin Franklin hanging on my wall here in the Oval Office, alongside the busts of Dr. King and Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez.
When Ben Franklin was asked, as he emerged from the convention going on, whether the founders have given America a monarchy or a republic, Franklin’s response was: “A republic, if you can keep it.” A republic, if you can keep it. Whether we keep our republic is now in your hands. My fellow Americans, it’s been the privilege of my life to serve this nation for over 50 years.
Nowhere else on Earth could a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pa., and in Claymont, Del., one day sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as the president of the United States, but here I am.
That’s what’s so special about America. We are a nation of promise and possibilities. Of dreamers and doers. Of ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things. I’ve given my heart and my soul to our nation, like so many others. And I’ve been blessed a million times in return with the love and support of the American people. I hope you have some idea how grateful I am to all of you.
The great thing about America is, here kings and dictators do not rule — the people do. History is in your hands. The power’s in your hands. The idea of America lies in your hands. You just have to keep faith — keep the faith — and remember who we are. We are the United States of America, and there are simply nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together. So let’s act together, preserve our democracy. God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Thank you.
Trump complained that Harris is a prosecutor and he's a convicted felon, which the Harris campaign immediately issued an "approved" reaction to, turning his words on their head.
The Wyoming Democratic Party reacted to Congressman Hageman's statement regarding VP Harris being a "DEI hire" two days ago with the following:
Hageman was having none of it and demanded a "#" from Ocasio-Cortez next time she was referenced by her and went on to state:
If you don’t want people to say she was hired only because she’s a black woman, then maybe Biden shouldn’t have said he was only gonna hire a black woman. She is objectively bad at her current job and is asking for a promotion, using a nomination that was simply handed to her.
This probably won't matter in current Wyoming, although it would have at one time. At any rate, singling out Harris on the claim that she's in her position only due to her race revivies language that hasn't been on the surface in regional politics for decades, and is not a good development.
In the local race, a flyer came here yesterday for a Populist who thinks he's a Republican and is running against an actual Republican. It was a big shocking and edging up on reprehensible. One of the things it stated is that the opponent is actually a Democrat, which is @#$#$3 absurd, and that the candidate supports Donald Trump, 100%, which I guess is absurd. Anyone who supports any politician 100% isn't thinking.
Speaking of not thinking, Trump launched an anti Biden screed yesterday. Biden isn't running.
July 26, 2024
Top front page headline on the CST:
As shocking as that is, and it is shocking, a Twitter item regarding it is full of Wyomingites agreeing with it.
More on this will be addressed in a seperate post, maybe.
The Trump campaign appears to be on its heels, failing to really anticipate Harris and really not expecting Harris' "Brat Summer". Harris is giving as good as she gets and then some, turning Trump slogans on their head. Meanwhile, the vast number of things J. D. Vance has said on his rise to the top are now in widespread circulation outside of Christian Nationalist circles for the first time, including his statements about childless women being disgruntled and turning their unhappy lives into disgruntled politics. . . I wonder what Harriet Hageman thinks about those statements, given as she has no children?
That may seem like a petty thing to say, but Vance has really gone after political women and women without children in general, claiming that they're unhappy due to their childless status and visit their unhappiness of the rest of the country through politics. Some of these women, such as AoC and Harris are extremely outspoken, and the suggestion is that they're miserably childless and that's why they are that way. Well, Hageman is extremely outspoken to say the least, and she's childless. Vance's statements would equally fully apply to her, if they are apply to Harris and AoC.
Two edged swords cut both ways.
There are a lot of rumors that Trump is unhappy with Vance, who was really designed to be a second fiddle in a race against Biden, and not a primary feature of his campaign which he is very rapidly becoming. Newsweek reports that Trump is thinking of dumping Vance.
That would be extraordinary, but Trump has always been unpredictable. If Vance as seen as a liability, he may soon be saying, "Et tu, Donaldus?"
Meanwhile, Trump is bouncing around on the scheduled debate, at first insisting that it take place in friendly territory at Fox, and then cancelling in on this bizarre pretext
The statement is an interesting glimpse into the state of things in the Trump/Vance ticket. For one thing, it's still partially aimed at Joe Biden. The old maxim that armies prepare for the last wear is really evident in this in that the Trump campaign continues to campaign against Joe Biden. It was geared up only for that race and none other, and can't get off of it.
Additionally the statements reflects the odd attachment to improper grammar that the Trump campaign exhibits. "[A] strong sense by many" would imply, in fact, "many", but the citation is to one, former President Obama (with the use of the middle name, of course, Hussein). Like the campaign focus on Biden, Trump has had a fixation on Obama for many years, but the point here is that many isn't one. It's grammatically incorrect. Given Obama's endorsement of Harris, it's now factually incorrect as well.
Unlike the situation with Biden, Trump has real reason to fear a debate with Harris. During the 2020 primary I didn't like Harris in part as she seemed to come across snarky. Now, however, given that Trump lies without hesitation and sounds like a 7th grade asshole, Harris brash and quick speaking style has suddenly lost that appearance and instead Trump just sounds like a 7th grade asshole.
And the Wyoming Freedom Caucus PAC finds itself in court over lying:
July 28, 2024
In an example of Trump rhetorical oddness, he stated in a rally within the last couple of days:
Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.
I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote,
The Harris campaign is citing this as promise to end democracy. It isn't, but it is an example of the bizarre way that Trump speaks.
July 30, 2024
Thank goodness:
The flyers that have come here the last couple of days from far right PACs have been repulsive.
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Secretary Gray Announces Investigation into ActBlueCHEYENNE, WY – In the wake of nationwide money laundering and identity theft allegations against Democratic fundraising organization ActBlue, Secretary of State Chuck Gray announced an investigation into ActBlue Wyoming, a political action committee registered with the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office. ActBlue has been accused of stealing peoples’ identities to conceal illegal donations, such as donations from foreign actors. As the chief election officer for the State of Wyoming, Secretary Gray is tasked with ensuring the integrity of Wyoming elections. ActBlue Wyoming is required to file statements of contributions and expenditures with the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office under the penalty of perjury. Filing a false statement is a violation of the Wyoming Election Code. Secretary Gray is legally empowered to refer suspected violations of the Election Code to the appropriate prosecuting authority.
“The widespread allegations against ActBlue are deeply troubling, and we must ensure thatpolitical action committees are following the Wyoming Election Code,” Secretary Gray said in a statement. “Claiming that a person donated to a PAC if that person never donated to that PAC would be a felony under Wyoming law. I am very concerned, and remain committed to a thorough review of contributions to ensure compliance with Wyoming law.”
Any Wyoming citizen who has reason to believe a political action committee stole their identity or falsely reported a donation using their name is encouraged to report this to the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office at elections@wyo.gov or 307-777-5860.
August 2, 2024
By all measures, the Presidential election has gone from one that was an almost sure win for Donald Trump, both in the electoral and popular vote, and potentially a landslide, to an even heat, or one that's now somewhat in favor of Harris, nearly overnight. States that weren't in play, as they'd gone Trump, are back in play.
Moreover, as set out in a NPR analysis, Harris has more than one path to the White House. Trump has exactly one.
Trump has now retreated to his behavior of a decade ago in desperation, questioning whether or not Kamala Harris is black, and thereby no doubt alienating both African Americans and Indian Americans to some degree. And, moreover, it emphasizes what the new catch phrase the Democrats have for the GOP ticket, that being that it is "weird". Trump babble on whether Harris is black or not is frankly, weird.
August 3, 2024
Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to be nominated.
Donald Trump endorsed Darin Smith, who is seeking to replace retiring Anthony Bouchard, for a Wyoming Senate seat.
Very odd to think of the embattled Trump reaching this far down to endorse anyone.
The CST Op Ed page was full of articles by politicians.
One by Chuck Gray:
Gray has been singularly unsuccessful in regard to his efforts on elections this cycle.
A good article by Khale Lenhart:
Tom Walters penned this article on a similar, but not identical, issue.
And this interesting item in that article:
Driskill also is asking the complaint be immediately forwarded to Attorney General Bridget Hill because he believes Secretary of State Chuck Gray has “an inherent conflict” of interest on the issue.
Driskill also is asking the complaint be immediately forwarded to Attorney General Bridget Hill because he believes Secretary of State Chuck Gray has “an inherent conflict” of interest on the issue.
Driskill told Cowboy State he has little hope that Gray will hand off the complaint.
He plans to accept Driskill’s request to hand off the complaint to the Attorney General’s Office.
August 6, 2024
Harris has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, about whom I know nothing, as her running mate. The Trump campaign has already responded with the buzzwords, claiming, in essence, that he's a far left liberal who sought to remake Minnesota in the image of California.
And with this, we will know close out this edition.
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