July 11, 2026
As we head into the final days of the primary election, which for most offices is, unfortunately, the election, we here in Wyoming are being subjected to a daily bombardment of election propaganda crap, most of which assumes that if Donald Trump bent over and pulled his oversize trousers down, you'd gleefully kiss his big white ass.
And that's exactly what most of the candidates for Congress are doing.
Having said that, either election fatigue or the rise of local issues is baffling a few.
For the House, Chuck Gray is flopping around like a carp thrown out on the beach looking for something he thinks can outrage you into voting for the little rich carpetbagger whose never had to really work. Gadfly Reid Rasner, who doesn't stand a chance (and whose been mysteriously absent recently) actually seems to have hurt Chuck by calling him China Chuck. Chuck's most recently effort is to pretend to be horrified by birthright citizenship. Given as Trump sort of excused Graham Platner from rape accusations the other day, we can assume lil' Chuck is searching for a girlfriend to make accusations against him so that he can get a Trump accolade.
Foster Friess, another rich carpetbagger, has been running for the same position, Congressman, and has hit on the "I've never had to work a real job but you dumb fucks have to so I'm going to pretend that you want a job on the floor of an oil rig where you will get killed".
As noted, Rasner has just dropped off the screen.
And of course we have Florida cracker Frank Chapman on screen looking like his new cowboy boots hurt his feet and pretending to be one of us.
We can hope that Jillian Balow is getting some traction, as she seems by far the least objectionable Republican candidate for Congress. She also must be the least well funded of the good candidates as we don't see her campaign material nearly as often, unfortunately.
This isn't everyone running on the GOP ticket. Bo Biteman, of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, Kevin Christensen, a vet who'd like to kiss Trump's big white ass, Richard Dodson, David Giralt and Keith Goodenough all are as well. Goodenough is the most interesting candidate in the race, having been a well know Natrona County candidate whose served in various offices, and who has served both as a Republican and Democrat.
If the primary election were today we would vote for, for Congress, Balow.
Democrats running for this office are Elena Del Real and Boomer Lisa Kinney. Kinney will win and then go down so badly in the general it'll leave a crater visible from space in her native Albany County.
If we were registered as Democrats and the primary was elected today, we'd just not vote either of these two obvious losers.
If the general election was held today, and we had our choice of candidates, we'd vote for Balow.
For the Senate seat, a propaganda flyer for Harriet Hageman came this week for the first time. That fact would suggest she doesn't figure she actually has to spend much money. Other candidates in that race are Jill Edwards, John Holtz, the gadfly Baby Boomer who just won't go away, Sam Mead and Jimmy Skovgard. Mead is by far the best candidate in this race but he faces an uphill battle against Hageman simply because she's in Congress.
If the primary election was held today we'd vote for Mead.
On the Democratic side Billy Benavidez is running against James Byrd. Byrd is a very good candidate and may be the best candidate in the entire race from either party. A Byrd v. Mead race would really serve the state.
If the primary election was held today and we were registered as Democrats, we'd vote for Byrd.
If the general election was held today and we had our choice of candidates, we're not sure what we'd do.
For Governor the race seems to have Eric Barlow, out in front. He's a very good candidate. Megan Degenfelder is running on having been Superintendent of Public Education and that Donald "Grab 'em by the Pussy" Trump has endorsed her. Brent Bien is running on the "I worked my entire life for the government (USMC) and hate the government ticket". A lot of WFC people like him as they're gullible and ignorant. The WFC has a flyer with Bien, Chuck and Hageman circling. A Curt Blake is also running.
If the primary election was held today we'd vote for Barlow.
On the Democratic side Ken Casner is running as the symbol of the dead Democratic Party in the state, as he's so old he may in fact have already passed on.
If the primary election was held today and we were registered as Democrats we'd scream in anger and refuse to fill out the ballot on this one.
If the general election was held today and we had our choice of candidates, we'd vote for Balow.
For Wyoming Secretary of State the GOP candidates are Jason Fearneyhough, Qwenton Eagle Oviatt, Rachel Rodriguez-Williams, Robert Short and Charles Young. Of these candidates, right now, the only ones I know anything about are carpetbagger Rodriguez-Williams, an odd man off Hispanic in the Wyoming Fascist Caucus, and Robert Short, long time Converse County Commissioner.
If the primary was held today, we'd vote for Short, but we need to look into these candidates more.
For the Democrats, there's Bryan McCarty, whom we know nothing about.
If the general election was held today and we had our choice of candidates, right now it'd be Short, but we're not wedded to that position. We'd never vote for Rodriguez-Williams.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction the GOP race features Chad Auer, Steve Harshman and Thomas Kelly. Harsham is a long time teacher and educator and is by far the best choice on the GOP side. On the Democratic side Ana Cordova and Sergio Maldonado are running, both of whom are educators.
If the primary election was held today we'd vote for Harshman.
If the general election was held today we're not sure what we would do.
The primary will decide the Treasurer's race as only Republicans Curt Meier and Scott Smith are running. Meier will win.
In other races, we'd like to see Bear, Allemand, and Ide retired to private life. I.e, lose and lose badly.
In news from elsewhere, Graham Platner officially pulled out of the race, but with the least apologetic message ever.
Platner was, of course, lately accused of rape and had some troubling aspects to him early on. The rape accusations, however, were a bridge too far for Democrats, thankfully.
One of the main aspects of the Platner saga has been the degree to which it really exposed the hypocrisy of the GOP, which started off by attempting to mount the high horse of morality which was bucking wildly. A party that has "Grab em by the Pussy" "I went to Epstein Island but didn't notice it was rapey" Trump and a host of other moral creeps can't really be complaining about morality When the Democrats in fact demanded that Platner drop out that left them in a bit of a pickle as they got what they were urging but, by extension, that means they have to clear out the bordello in order to have any moral credibility, which they aren't going to do.
Indeed, Donald Trump came to Platner's defense, noting that sometimes the accusatrixes are fibbers, which sometimes they indeed are. His point is, of course, that he's maintained all along he's not a moral creep and his female accusers are lying. It's pretty clear not all of them are lying about what they accuse Trump of, but at any rate he came to Platner's defense. It'd have been amusing if Trump had endorsed Platner, which I could actually see sort of happening. In a weird sort of way, Platner is what J. D. Vance once was, but with a side order of massively problematic personal issues.
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