On Friday, June 26th, I attended the Wyoming Republican Convention. This year is the first year that I had a booth for my legislative ranking system. It’s been an exciting experience so far. I conversed with thirty or more Republicans of all stripes. One of the more interesting conversations was with Rep. Jared Olsen (R-Cheyenne) and his wife, Dani Olsen, the Chair of the...
So the campaign season is here. Many candidates are already canvassing their districts. The sense is that COVID-19 absentee and early voting, which begins July 3rd, will be critical in this year’s election. Last night saw a debate for state legislative office last night in Campbell County. It was lively with the incumbents, especially Rep. Eric Barlow and Sen. Michael VonFlatern, mailing in...
Thanks to the work of a few eagle eye readers an error was uncovered. The tool would not properly account for a legislator being the solitary vote for or against an action. This would cause the vote not to register correctly. This has been corrected. This results in small changes to the rankings. The new rankings for the 2020 budget session can be found here This is why I try to show all my work...
Session for years 2009 to 2020
The end of session report for each year from 2009 to 2020 can be found below:
[Author’s note: Thanks to the work of a few eagle eye readers an error was uncovered. The tool would not properly account for a legislator being the solitary vote for or against an action. This would cause the vote not to register correctly. This has been corrected. This results in small changes to the rankings. The new rankings for the 2020 budget session can be found here This is why I...
If you don’t know Senator Tom James, a Republican representing Sweetwater County, you should. He’s helped improve the transparency of Wyoming government spending more in his first term than just about any other politician. OpenTheBooks.com has been for three years trying to shed light on where the spending in Wyoming is centered. They’ve done great work in providing...
So the Frontier Republicans are demanding civility in Wyoming’s political discourse. Is that what they want, or are their motives more sinister? Recently an email was sent out from the Frontier Republicans calling for civility while in different forums they vilifyied others as extremists and implied they are cockroaches. (Yeah, they really did that, they demanded civility and called other...
A lot of chatter has been generated lately by a new group calling themselves ‘Frontier Republicans.’ This group believes that the Republican Party has been taken over by extremists. These ‘Frontier Republicans’ claim they represent the ‘real Republican Party’ and demand that there ‘should be no litmus test to be a Republican.’ Frontier Republicans...
Looking to see the action on various bills on a day a by day bases? Each file’s date is the date the file was generated. New reports are updated daily for the prior day‘s session. The report summarizes all roll call votes the previous day as recorded by the LSO, including committee votes. In addition, each bill has the house bill or senate file number, a hyperlink to its original...
This post will show the latest analysis in table form comparing each legislator against the Minority Floor Leader Rep Connolly as the representative of the Democrats and Speaker of the House Harshman as the representative of the Republicans.
Links
2020 Voting Record – Wyoming House Republicans
2020 Voting Record Wyoming House of Representatives
2020 Legislative Analysis Full Results