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Conservative politics from Wyoming and the nation. The media doesn’t report the truth and they are always playing for the left. Politicians lie and it’s my job to prove it. The only way that we set our country back to Constitutional principles is by exposing those who are trying to destroy it.
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Chris Adamo wrote the response to Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals--the book that begins with an acknowledgement to Lucifer. The left has their playbook in Alinsky, Adamo's book Rules for Defeating Radicals explains how to beat them. He joins me on the program to talk about the book and the left in Wyoming.
The National Education Association wants to replace the word "mother" with birthing parent. The Wyoming Education Association is training teachers to be activists--and it's on their website! Also a great interview with Rick Coppinger who is running against Bob Nicholas in House District 7.
The Appropriations Committee meeting on Thursday was the perfect example of everything that's wrong with the Wyoming and frankly all state Government--appointed officials who believe in central planning. That is, ignoring the free market that has created this amazing country we live in.
Josh Dorrell from the Wyoming Business Council told the members of Appropriations that it's his job to create an economic system. He actually said that! The committee rightly peppered him with questions demanding he explain himself.
Replay of Cowboy State Politics Live from December 4
In the Season 6 premier, the Wyoming Business Council sent out an email asking people to attend a watch party to "mobilize." Why does a state agency need to build support for "collective action." Last time I checked, state agencies don't campaign for public support. There's a ton a problems with their email, including, perhaps Wyoming Statutes.
Even the Wyoming Tribune Eagle has to admit that charitable organizations really don't need government. And, it's not the government's job anyway. IT'S OUR JOB. So-called government charity is only making big government even bigger.
The government shutdown is a perfect example. Private organizations shined, helping those in need across the whole state. Nationwide, Americans raise over half-a-trillion every year for benevolent purposes. Are you telling me we can't handle the needs of the poor with that amount of cash? We can, and the WTE admits it.
If it quacks like a duck, it's usually a duck. That's the argument an op-ed in the Sheridan Mess attempts to make. Many in the Wyoming media have been making the same one--that if you vote conservatively you must be a member of the Freedom Caucus and somehow that's bad. There's so many logical fallacies with that claim; not the least of which is why is that a bad thing.
The author's claims lead you to believe he must be a card carrying Democrat. Is he a Democrat or is he just another cross-over voter?
People never learn, in socialism, there's no turkey, there's no gravy and no stores to buy those things at anyway.
Most of us have no idea what really happened in the Plymouth Colony. We're told that Thanksgiving Day was the pilgrims giving thanks to the Indians for saving their lives. That's not even close to the truth.
According to the Wyoming Business Council, the free market is working against us. This is an amazing perspective coming from the state agency who's goal is to increase business.
Of course, my answer is that the free market is not the problem, it's government intervention and playing around in private business.
While Josh Dorrell, the head of the WBC, and I have very different perspectives on business, this interview is one of the clearest examples of the two competing forces in our economy--government and private enterprise. Dorrell thinks that government needs to be involved and I know that that's the problem. This is a fascinating discussion.
Joining the program is former Rep Mark Jennings.
Never before heard audio from INSIDE a Wyoming County Commissioners meeting! It very clearly tells you which legislators are working for you and which ones are working for lobbying organizations.
The Revenue Committee met last week and discussed a bill that would eliminate property taxes and replace them with an increased sales tax. Of course, the usual suspects, the WCCA objected to it because it would decrease the amount of your money they could spend.
During the discussion Sen Case moved to table the bill. Why? Because in his own words, he's in favor of new taxes. In the past he has said that he's even in favor of an income tax. But the EXCLUSIVE audio I have paints a very different picture as to why he wanted to table the bill. I'd say it's unbelievable, but coming from him it's totally something he would say.
Governor Gordon claims that the role of government is to provide those services that individuals can't provide for themselves. There's no end to this line of thinking. It ends up with government giving your money to so-called non-profits; and it ends with budgets that are twice as big as a few years ago.
His budget is littered with a whole bunch of things he claims are 'essential." Most of them are handouts and have nothing to do with the proper role of government.
The City of Sheridan Clerk claims that voters approved for local government to give their money away to private organizations. Funny, the original ballot measure doesn't say anything about that!!
Secretary of State Chuck Gray joins the program to talk about Gordon removing public notice money for the 50% tax reduction ballot initiative. Is the legislature black-listing emails from constituents? Slithers and Dennis claim that legislators can go dig them out of the junk or quarantine file. But who does this??? That and lots more!
The governor and his pals are claiming that the proposed budget is conservative--it's anything but that. According to his own math, to do the same thing as last year, it will cost almost a billion dollars less. Gordon wants to add another $1.9 Billion to it. Just a reminder, there's only 586,000 people in Wyoming. That's $19,000 for every man woman and child in the state. If that weren't shocking enough, in four short years, Wyoming's budget has doubled. It really is legalized theft.
Margaret Byfield and Rep Hageman were the keynote speakers at WYGOP meeting held in Torrington over the weekend. The topic of conversation was private property rights--something that we too often told isn't a concern in our state. Harriet briefly discusses the Maude case in South Dakota and a couple in Wyoming.
Not that long ago, Josh Dorrell President of the Wyoming Business Council joined me in the studio. There are a ton of projects that they are involved in across Wyoming--all of which involve your tax dollars. There's lots of questions we should be asking: is that the proper roll of government; do these projects actually make money; do Wyoming Citizens even want to be involved in these projects? We got to some of those.
You see their logo all over the place in our state. This is a great discussion with the guy behind them.
Replay of Cowboy State Politics Live November 13
The Democrats started the so called government shutdown. Despite what they claimed, none of it was about subsidies for Obamacare. That's clear now that the Senate has passed a continuing resolution. Though, the continuing resolution only funds the government through January 30. We may very well have another shutdown in a couple of months.
Rep Harriet Hageman joins me to discuss the shutdown and to give her take on what actually happened. Also, because I couldn't resist, I asked her opinion of Mamdani's election in NY.
Why is the Cowboy State Daily doing the exact same thing as progressive organizations in Wyoming? A recent opinion piece by Jackson Walker in the Cow Pie tries to determine who is in the Freedom Caucus and who isn't. That's exactly what a website created by progressive group 'Better Wyoming' attempts to do.
Better Wyoming is a left wing group run by Nate Martin, the husband of Democrat Rep Karlee Provenza. Pick a liberal cause and they've probably advocated for it.
While they are doing the same thing, really they only have the same goal--to discredit those representatives who are part of the Freedom Caucus. In doing so, they only discredit themselves.
Over the last year, there's been a lot of controversy at the University of Wyoming. The legislature ordered UW to eliminate its DEI program. A dean filed a lawsuit over what he claims is was an improper demotion. And, UW President Dr Ed Seidel has resigned.
Dr Seidel sat down with me for a wide ranging discussion about school funding, successes and controversies during his administration. We talked about the gigantic amount of money Wyoming Citizens pour into the school--half a billion every two years--free speech and UW being one of the top research schools in America.
A few weeks ago, Mark Meckler and Rick Green gave a presentation in Sheridan about the Convention of States. For two hours they gave their sales pitch. It sounded great, except there's a whole bunch they left out--criticism that might dissuade support. With a little reading, it's obvious an convention is the last thing we need to do as a country.
Two of the supporters of Convention of States Action--the organization Mark Meckler helped found--who appear on promotional materials have written articles that are completely the opposite of what the crowd in Sheridan was told. In the end, it's obvious, no one should support a convention.
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great interview