Here's his announcement video (apparently filmed while he was still weighing a run.)
Pretty polished.
And if you're tracking all the people whose names have been floated for the party so far, here's an op-ed in Breitbart by William Perry-Pendley, a former Trump admin official who has been re-establishing himself in Wyoming. breitbart.com/politics/2021/…
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Lawmakers are allowed to participate remotely and won't be docked pay for it.
Lawmakers can only hold meetings at sites able to facilitate full remote meetings.
Much better than the policy they originally proposed.
The drawback is that we won't have meetings in rural areas that occasionally require field visits. If you look at the list, all the sites are places like Laramie, Rawlins, Jackson, Rock Springs, Casper, Cheyenne...
Interesting quote by Albert Sommers: "I think the public participation piece is probably going to be the most hotly debated [we have]." (1/2)
"One of the things that I've heard repeatedly from some of the chairs on the House side is the concern that if we don't have some throttle on who comes in when they come in, then we can get all manner of out of state people coming in at one, you know, kind of flooding in."
Sen. Barrasso's committee on Energy and Natural Resources is currently holding a hearing to examine challenges and opportunities for advancing and deploying carbon utilization technologies in the United States.
Looks like Corey Lewandowski's role in Wyoming has been cemented.
He's actively fundraising for an "eventual major primary opponent" to Liz Cheney, apparently to be vetted and interviewed by former President Donald Trump.
I did actually reach out to Trump's office last week for an interview but have not heard back... would @CLewandowski_ have any interest in chatting?
Mr. Lewandowski popped up in the conversation around Wyoming's runoff election bill, which some saw as a way to avoid the vote-splitting that typically occurs among more right-wing candidates against more "traditional" conservative candidates.
Rep. Romero-Martinez has attached extensive death penalty repeal language to Sen. Lynn Hutchings' Homicide Amendments bill. wyoleg.gov/2021/Amends/SF…
Rep. Jennings is calling a rules committee to decide whether it's germane or not.
This is a third reading amendment, so if it passes, the House will have overstepped the Senate on death penalty repeal. They killed it pretty soundly on that side of the building.
They could vote not to concur, but that possibly creates challenges for the rest of the bill.
Making this even MORE interesting is the fact Romero-Martinez's name is on the bill as a co-sponsor.
So he could very well be trying to tank a bill he co-sponsored in an attempt to repeal Wyoming's death penalty.
Rep. Romero-Martinez -- the sponsor -- says he wanted to "speak from the heart" as a Republican working to expand Medicaid.
"I'm probably the first person elected to the House [who] lives in dire poverty. but I do know how to take a shower and put on a tie."
Franz Fuchs, of the Dept. of Health, says our traditional Medicaid program is largely made up of low income kids, typically those at around 356% of the poverty level.