Cowboy State Politics

Eric Barlow's AG pick is a registered Democrat and donated to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  He also gave thousands of dollars to the Wyoming Democrat Party.  Why didn't the Cow Pie tell you that? Barrasso and his pals in the U.S. Senate are doing the same thing they are always doing...nothing! To prove that to you, they've selected John Thune again to lead the Republican caucus in the Senate--the same guy that couldn't seem to get the SAVE America Act passed.

While the rest of the state-run media is trying to convince you that the blue wave was really a trickle, the truth came from the most unlikely of souces--The Pravda on the Platte! Today, the Casper Star Tribune ran the headline, "Wyoming voted Republican, but the numbers tell a different story." Statewide, there was a 37 point average swing toward the Democrat Party from the 2024 election to this years. But don't worry, they're all Republicans.

Every county shifted to the Democrats in the General Election. But the Cow Pie doesn't want you to worry, that totally had nothing to do with Wyoming's top 5 elected offices. There's no way a trend that happened across the rest of the country and showed up in every single Wyoming county had anything to do with Wyoming's Governor's race. And, it definitely didn't have anything to do with the primary election. Except that the average shift to the Democrats was 21.3 points. It's definitely a coincidence that 70% of the contested races in the Primary were decided by 21.3 points or less.

Tuesday brought a historic defeat of Republicans. They lost both houses of congress and several governorships. It was very similar to what happened in Wyoming in the Primary Election. The clean sweep was for reasons that the Republican Party should know well. Tuesday also brought with it the election of Eric Barlow as the 34th Governor of Wyoming. Proposition 1 was defeated in the same way conservatives were virtually swept out of the Wyoming House. But Tuesday also marked the beginning of the Constitution Party as a major political party in the state. All of this happened for a very specific reason.

Just about everyone in government is warning of apocalypse-like results if we vote for Prop 1. But the October CREG Report shows that Wyoming now has over 1/3 of a billion dollars more than expected. And, there's over $300 Million left over in the school foundation account after the bills have been paid. But, not according to Bob Nicholas' recent piece of drivel in the Cow Pie. According to him, revenues are down, we're struggling to pay for students in the classroom. None of that is true.  AND, there's more than a few reasons why we should listen to Bob Nicholas; not the least of which is he claimed if everyone got vaccinated the pandemic would have been over. 

Vote for Proposition 1 and we will impose an income tax!  That's what you're being told from all levels of government.  And, notice who it is that is against you getting a tax break--they're all entrenched in government positions.  While you're struggling to pay, Sheridan officials from THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE, the people who tell you how much to pay, are dining on the most expensive things on the menu at nice restaurants in Casper and you're paying for it.  It's really too bad that you'd like to go out and have a steak, the taxman has to have one instead.  Similarly, you're being told that special districts MUST have more of your money or they will reduce services. Strange though, when asked to show the books for what they've spent, they either can't or won't.

In the latest installment of Eric Barlow isn't a conservative (or really a Republican), in 2019 he sponsored a state income tax. Titled the National Retail Fairness Act, HB220 would have created a corporate income tax in Wyoming. Not only did he sponsor it he and 43 other members of the House voted for it. Of course, the argument for it is it applies to big companies. 2 things: if you think that Cale Case and Eric Barlow would have stopped there, you're nuts. And, second, corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do. Now we have Eric with legalizing weed, medicaid expansion, carbon capture, doing away with fossil fuels and a mediocre at best pro-life record. Definitely not a Republican.

Wyoming Republicans should be voting for the Republican Party Platform, not what our congressional delegation says. I've heard them campaign over and over on the principles in the platform. Now, you're being told to disregard it and fall in line. Historically, Republicans have lost elections not because their platform was rejected but because the two opposing parties have become indistinguishable. Ronald Reagan taught us that winning elections means striking a difference between the two parties.  There's a big difference between Eric Barlow's platform and that of the Wyoming Republican Party. 

Senator Ed Cooper introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution with a ban on "dark money." The irony is that Cooper's pals were themselves the recipients and beneficiaries of ALOT of actual dark money in the 2026 primary. His resolution would in effect overturn the Supreme Court decision Citizens United. It's a resolution Democrat Ken Chestek has been working on before he was elected. His group, Wyoming Promise is the state version of a national group American Promise which is funded by a laundry list of progressive organizations. It is also supported by the Socialist Party USA.

You're being told that there is a massive "dark money" network that funded the 2026 Wyoming Primary Election. That's true. But it didn't fund the people you think. Western Futures Fund, the Way Back PAC, the George B. Storer Foundation and others dumped huge sums for the Wyoming left. Fred Harrison's recent piece calls Wyomings elections a national security warning. He exposes that there were multiple errors in multiple counties and Wyoming clerks certified the machines anyway. And, why the General Election is so important. The margin in the U.S. House is going to be super tight so 1 seat is definitely going to make a difference.