Cowboy State Politics

Weekend Update - You Didn't Build That 11/22

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!!

Replay - Cowboy State Politics Live November 20

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!

Gordon's Budget is Legalized Theft 11/19

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.

Monday Reload - Jailtime for a Fence 11/17

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.

Weekend Update - Josh and "Business Development" 11/15

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.