Tag: Matt Laslo

City of Gillette communications manage Geno Palazzari said he goes with “Gilletten,” which is the same term a few other readers shared with me by email. It quickly became clear that by “free speech,” the Virginia-based group means political contributions. The Court decided that, yes, money is speech. Free speech, so far as I understand it, seems to revolve around the ideas being expressed rather than the reach or exposure of those ideas. To say that people with more money are entitled to more Constitutionally-protected speech just rings kind of hollow. So I can see both sides -- after all, if you’re not allowed to spend money to express your ideas, how will anyone find out about them. “Interestingly, the Equality State is the only state in the nation to allow unlimited giving for PACs to gubernatorial candidates but not to legislative candidates. If free political speech is good for the Governor’s Mansion, it stands to reason it’s good for the Legislature too.” President Donald Trump pardoned Scooter Libby on Friday for his convictions on perjury and obstruction of justice that date back to the Bush administration. Laslo said it may be due to Enzi’s vote against the spending deal that kept the government open earlier this year. BARRASSO DOWN ON ESA -- Barrasso told the Cody Enterprise's Lew Freedman that he wants to see major changes to the Endangered Species Act to reduce the burdens on businesses operating in areas where some species are listed under the act.