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The Story: Liz Cheney (R - Wyo.) the only member of the U.S. House of Representatives from her state, is running for re-election to a...

The Story: Liz Cheney (R-Wyo), a key "never Trump" figure within the Republican Party, and the daughter of Dick Cheney, who was Vice President in...

The Story: It appears at this writing that the control of the US Senate will remain in Republican hands when the new members are inaugurated...

The Story: The President's re-election prospects took a hit this weekend with a report that Russia has offered bounties to militants in Afghanistan for the...

 The Story: In May 2019, Senator Mike Enzi (R - Wyo) announced that he would not seek reelection to the seat he has held for...

The Story Senator Michael Enzi (R - WY) announced over the weekend that he will not run for re-election next year. This means there will...

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.

What word, I wondered, should I use to refer to people from that city. Some states that are dominated by a single party, like California and its Democratic supermajority, use a so-called “top two” primary system where candidates from both parties appear on the primary ballot and two advance to the general election. Often that means two Democrats run against each other in the general election, but proponents say that makes far more sense than a Democrat who received 100,000 votes in the primary facing a Republican who received 5,000. His donations to Democrats, including Gary Trauner in a Wyoming U.S. House seat and John Kerry for president, became an issue in his own House race against Cynthia Lummis 10 years ago. Gordon is, obviously, a Republican. “But I don’t think it could give him anything even close to a fatal blow.” “In the general election it could almost be an asset.” Others, like GOP consultant Liz Brimmer, said that past contributions to Democratic candidates would make Gordon stick out in the race -- and not in a good way, perhaps working against the leg up he has as a candidate with significant name recognition in Wyoming. “You’re running in a Republican primary in a very conservative, red state.” Gordon has not donated to any Democrats since the 2008 run against Lummis and before that time he was contributing to a mix of candidates from both parties. Gordon donated to both Sullivan and Thomas -- and both contributions were made following the general election in order to help the candidates retire campaign debt. “And when he knows and respects someone, he has stepped up to help.” Walker also pointed out that 90 percent of Gordon’s political donations have gone toward Republicans -- at an amount totaling nearly $80,000 -- and have included the state Republican party, the national Republican party, Enzi, John Barrasso, Mitt Romney and John McCain. He points to the decision by the Republican Central Committee, “which is a very conservative group of people,” to shortlist Gordon for appointment as treasurer in 2012.

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