Knapp, who now lives in California but is moving back to Gillette, said he’s wanted to go into public service since high school and that “now is a good time to do it.”
According to his LinkedIn, he works in Orange County and has been heavily involved in the O&G industry.
Did anyone else get a heads-up he was running? Nobody contacted me about him running until about 6 a.m. today and though I heard rumors someone was announcing in Campbell County last week, nobody knew who it was.
With more than a year until the Republican primaries, we now have seven challengers, including
Several possibles, including Bryan Miller, Ed Buchanan, William Perry Pendley.
Knapp -- a West Point grad -- has experience in Iraq and Afghanistan but other than a year-and-a-half stint in Phoenix, can't find much record of him in the MW.
His longest occupation was with the U.S. Army again, in Orange County.
Not unprecedented though. In last year's U.S. Senate Primary, candidate Donna Rice left her law firm in the midwest after 20 years to move back to Wyoming and run a largely self-funded campaign against Lummis. trib.com/news/state-and…
Finished with about 5.5% in the primary.
Uinta County GOP state committeeman Lyle Williams is looking.
He's a perennial candidate who lost numerous statehouse races. Most recently, lost his campaign for a precinct position. He's now at the center of a legal battle contesting his re-election to the county committee.
That battle is currently playing out at the local level after the Wyoming AG's office advised the SOS not to pursue it. wyofile.com/state-passes-o…
The WyoDems chair has taken notice...
Lets say that one of these challengers does, in fact, beat Cheney in the primary, running on a platform that somehow goes to the right of Cheney. What does a Democratic challenge look like in the general?
Rep. Gray says that the current Biden Administration policy to expand Medicaid to red states is "coercive." Asking if there are any legal challenges pending, but DOH staff say that most of the legal issues out there have "been resolved."
This is how our current environment as a non-expansion state compares to states that have expanded. Note the populations carved out here.
An official for the University of Wyoming's Center for Business and Economic Analysis walking through their version of the tax capacity study, with estimated from the minimum rate to if we went "full socialist" and maxed everything out.
Quite a bit.
Based off median income, we have room to raise taxes.
Here's us compared to states with no income tax... we could earn $2.3 billion if we adopted the median of their tax policies.
However, Texas and Washington have major metros. We don't. S. Dakota is the best match, which would net us about $1.1b extra per year.
The Legislature's Revenue Committee discussing the state's tax structure this morning.
Revenue Director Dan Noble says the state's tax structure is a regressive one: "Our tax structure is unstable. We base... more than half of our economy on price of commodities."
We also have the "second lowest" tax burden for a family of four in the United States, he said, and that our current tax structure could actually hinder the state's growth, due to the high cost of services and a thin tax base.
Watch live here:
Notes state and county officials are limited in their taxing authority. And tax administration is confusing.
"We spend probably more time than anything else appearing before the State Board of Equalization and the Supreme Court associated with mineral issues."
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."