December 14, 2023

Merry Christmas Weston County!

As we approach the Holiday Season, I hope you can take a few minutes to review some important ways you can help the Republican Party be successful in 2024.

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In the New Year, we will begin the election year meeting process of Precinct Caucus Meetings, County Convention, State Convention, and ultimately, the National Convention.

We must hold our Precinct Caucus Meetings and County Convention within the time frame set by the Wyoming Republican Party. So, please see the attached 2024 schedule and mark your calendars with these dates shown below:

 

1. WCRP Precinct Committee Man/Woman Training, January 22, 2024 - 5pm at the Weston County Senior Center

2. WCRP Precinct Caucus Meetings, Tuesday, February 17, 2024 - 9am at the Newcastle Lodge

3. WCRP County Convention, Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 9am at the Newcastle Lodge

 

Any registered Republican in Weston County can participate in the Precinct Caucus Meetings. We meet as one body and divide into groups by our perspective precincts. In these precinct "groups", or caucuses, a chair from within each precinct caucus is elected to run the Precinct Caucus Meeting. 

 

The agenda will include three important agenda items: County/State Bylaws, County/State Resolutions, and the County/State Platforms. The precincts will make their recommendations on changes and additions to these documents to be discussed at the County Convention. The precincts will also elect their delegates to the County Convention.  At the County Convention, we will elect delegates to attend the Wyoming Republican Party State Convention April 18-20, 2024.

We are looking for individuals who have an interest in being appointed to serve on our Bylaws, Resolutions, and Platforms Committees or serve as delegates to the State Convention. If you are interested, please let us know.

Second

We encourage you to visit with your family and friends and encourage great candidates to step forth to run for office this coming year. If you or someone you know would make a great candidate, please reach out to us.  We'd love to help with election processes, strategy, and timelines.

May you and yours enjoy a blessed Christmas and a happy and healthy new year!

Merry Christmas,

 

 

 

July 13, 2023

OUR WAY OF LIFE IS NOT FOR SALE

OPED by Cheri E. Steinmetz

Wyoming Senate District #3

 

OUR WAY OF LIFE SHOULD NOT BE FOR SALE

LINGLE – Sometimes money makes us poor. When I think about our State and the communities across it, I feel truly thankful to live here where family, friends, hard work, and handshakes still mean the world to us. Our riches don’t come from money they come from each other, the land we live on and the resources we enjoy. Our way of life should not be for sale.

The biggest threat we face is coming from money being doled out in Washington DC to fund local projects that implement disastrous policies. Policies ranging from title xi mandating that boys be allowed to compete in girls sports, to the new Bureau of Land Management rules which make NON-USE of land an official use, to the war on energy and agriculture through the Biden/AOC “Green New Deal/30x30” and the list goes on and on and on! These policies and projects are being implemented right in our own back yards and communities often by well-meaning souls who just can’t see the bigger picture or state policy makers chasing federal dollars. Many Wyoming citizens are fighting back because they understand this is nothing more than a giant money laundering scheme designed to decimate the middle class and transfer generational wealth, all to increase the clout and balance sheets of a few powerful puppet masters.

Unfortunately, in the 2023 legislative session Governor Gordon vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature that would have prevented private companies from condemning private property for wind energy collector lines. In response, the joint Agriculture State and Public Lands and Water Resources committee has taken up the topic of eminent domain as private property across the state could be threatened with condemnation due to increased wind and solar development. When a government subsidized private for-profit company working with your neighbor can condemn your property for their own benefit, do you really have any private property rights? And has anyone even considered or found a way to measure the long-term cost of taking agricultural land out of production in pursuit of unreliable, unaffordable, government subsidized energy sources?

The tried-and-true structure of our society as to how we make a living, derive our energy, manage our land, and raise our families appears to be up for grabs as the global elites’ plot to monetize everything. We must have the courage to say these things are not for sale at any price.

While Sweden abandons failed policy around net neutral carbon emissions, and the United Kingdom warns that immediate transition away from fossil fuels is impossible. In Wyoming, the State that has the most to lose, Governor Gordon is doubling down by joining forces with Colorado’s far Left-leaning, Governor Polis to sell the air.

Disguised in an effort to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, his policy has people involved in agriculture scratching their heads, as we all appreciate the value of the essential plant food known as CO2. If we were unsure of the reason behind the Governor prioritizing this issue, verbiage from his press release makes it clear. “The federal government has established several significant incentives and competitive grant opportunities to test and scale direct air capture technologies and projects.” Getting in bed with Joe Biden’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency is always counterproductive for Wyoming.

As lawmakers we must protect the individual rights of our constituents to life, liberty and the use of their property. We must answer the plea to keep more of their hard-earned money in their pockets rather than use it against them to participate in the global green Ponzi scheme. We must continue to chart our own course, hold on to our convictions, stay true to our values and have the fortitude to resist well-funded self-destruction. If we take this money, in the end it will cost us everything.

Our way of life is not for sale!

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JUNE 24, 2023 NEWCASTLE WY

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Wyoming Freedom Caucus Town Hall, June 24th @ Newcastle, WY was well attended with 85 concerned citizens attending from Weston, Niobrara and Crook Counties.

 

Wyoming Representatives Chip, Neiman, John Bear, Allen Slagle and Scott Smith were present at a three-hour Town Hall to answer questions and explain what is going on in State Legislature and committee meetings. 

 

Property Rights and Eminent Domain were hot topics with the current BLM land grab rule threatening multi use of Public Land.  Eminent Domain is also being used as a land grab tool.  Rep. Slagle’s HB106 protecting landowners from unfair eminent domain law for carrying power from wind farms passed in 2023 session but was vetoed by Governor Gordon.  The people in attendance were worried about more than wind power transmission.  CO2 pipelines are also becoming threatening to landowners.  Millions of dollars from State and Federal sources (meaning taxpayers) have been spent on a project to store carbon dioxide in geological layers underground.  Of course, the people in attendance want stops put to overreach of government but the Caucus explained they did not have the votes.

 

Property taxes were collected in excess of 500 million dollars.  Money that should be returned to the overtaxed property owners. The legislators will offer a choice to the voters in 2024 to break the tax level categories from 3 to 4, breaking Corporations away from Residential and Small Business.  This is a slight of hand since Corporations will just pass this on to consumers. Cindy Barlow, Equality State Taxpayers Association, has been hosting meetings explaining the fallacies of our tax structure and discuss remedies.  Basing property taxes on accusation value plus CPI (Consumer Price Index or inflation rate) would be a reasonable answer.  Once again, we do not have enough votes for this remedy.

 

Statistics were provided in an always present discussion of education funding.  Article 7 of the Wyoming Constitution provides that Education be fully funded as long as the state as any money at all.  This forces the state to fund education at the previous rate or above before any other expenditures.  Education is funded at 70 million every year for ever and ever.  Funding levels were easy to maintain with taxes collected from the extraction industry which used to power the country.  As this revenue source diminishes new sources will be sought.  Property taxes and income tax will be considered.

 

 

Just some notable statements from the meeting:

 

UW did not sponsor the National High School Rodeo Finals but did find money to sponsor pride events.

 

Education is funded in Block Grants.  Local School Boards determine how to spend the money.  When the legislature provides more funding for teacher raises the board can raise wages for teachers OR for administration.  27% is spent on administration.

 

Twenty years ago, Wyoming spent 500 million (1/2 billion) on 95,000 students.  Today we spend 1.6 billion on 93,000 students.

 

Wyoming funds education at an average rate of nearly $20,000 per student.  Near the top in the US. 

Public Employees ratio to population is 879\10000.  The highest in the nation.  Wyoming’s government is excessive. Alaska being second at 25% less.

 

 

MARCH 13, 2023, 12:00 PM

A Letter from your Chairman:

Hello Weston County Republicans!

 

Our Organizational meeting was successful and well attended!  Thank you to all who participated and thank you for the trust you have placed in me.

 

It gives me great pleasure to introduce your Weston County Republican Party Leadership Team:

 

Chair    Kari Drost

Vice Chair    Allen Slagle

State Committeeman    Mick Bohn

State Committeewoman    Ann Slagle

Secretary        Stan Jasinski

Treasurer      Jamie Farnsworth

 

WELCOME to all our officers!  

 

The WCRP also brought forward several GREAT Resolutions of support for our exemplary elected officials.  Visit the Events Summary page to view the Resolutions. 

 

Thank you to everyone who presented these Resolutions - and THANK YOU to these great Representatives!  Weston County is truly blessed!

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Next meeting is April 24, 2023 at 6pm at the Upton Community Center.

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JANUARY 15, 2023, 12:00 PM

A Letter from your Chairman:

Hello Weston County Republicans!

 

WARNING - This email contains LOTS of great information and resources!  Prepare yourselves accordingly!!

 

Last week's meeting of the WCRP was a success!  We had 16 out of 19 of our Precinct Committee Men and Women in attendance (17 out of 20 at the end of the meeting) as well as several other participants from the community - thanks so much to everyone who attended and contributed to the discussion!

 

For those of you unable to attend, here is a link to the video of the meeting: Weston County Republican Party Central Committee meeting. January 7, 2023.

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The Committee began its work by appointing Loretta Moyers to fill a vacant Precinct Committeewoman position in Precinct 3-1.  Welcome to the team, Loretta!

 

The Committee then voted to hold its March meeting for election of officers on March 13 at 6pm, then future meetings on the 4th Monday of each month at 6pm. Please reserve the following dates in your calendars:

 

March 13 

April 24   

May 22

June 26

July 24

August 28

September 25

October 23

November 27

 

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