Secretary of State Chuck Gray joins the program to talk about Gordon removing public notice money for the 50% tax reduction ballot initiative.  Is the legislature black-listing emails from constituents?  Slithers and Dennis claim that legislators can go dig them out of the junk or quarantine file.  But who does this???  That and lots more!

The governor and his pals are claiming that the proposed budget is conservative--it's anything but that.  According to his own math, to do the same thing as last year, it will cost almost a billion dollars less.  Gordon wants to add another $1.9 Billion to it.  Just a reminder, there's only 586,000 people in Wyoming.  That's $19,000 for every man woman and child in the state.  If that weren't shocking enough, in four short years, Wyoming's budget has doubled.  It really is legalized theft.  

Margaret Byfield and Rep Hageman were the keynote speakers at WYGOP meeting held in Torrington over the weekend.  The topic of conversation was private property rights--something that we too often told isn't a concern in our state.  Harriet briefly discusses the Maude case in South Dakota and a couple in Wyoming.

Not that long ago, Josh Dorrell President of the Wyoming Business Council joined me in the studio.  There are a ton of projects that they are involved in across Wyoming--all of which involve your tax dollars.  There's lots of questions we should be asking: is that the proper roll of government; do these projects actually make money; do Wyoming Citizens even want to be involved in these projects?  We got to some of those.  

You see their logo all over the place in our state.  This is a great discussion with the guy behind them.

Replay of Cowboy State Politics Live November 13

The Democrats started the so called government shutdown.  Despite what they claimed, none of it was about subsidies for Obamacare.  That's clear now that the Senate has passed a continuing resolution.  Though, the continuing resolution only funds the government through January 30.  We may very well have another shutdown in a couple of months.

Rep Harriet Hageman joins me to discuss the shutdown and to give her take on what actually happened.  Also, because I couldn't resist, I asked her opinion of Mamdani's election in NY.

Why is the Cowboy State Daily doing the exact same thing as progressive organizations in Wyoming?  A recent opinion piece by Jackson Walker in the Cow Pie tries to determine who is in the Freedom Caucus and who isn't.  That's exactly what a website created by progressive group 'Better Wyoming' attempts to do.

Better Wyoming is a left wing group run by Nate Martin, the husband of Democrat Rep Karlee Provenza.  Pick a liberal cause and they've probably advocated for it.

While they are doing the same thing, really they only have the same goal--to discredit those representatives who are part of the Freedom Caucus.  In doing so, they only discredit themselves.

Over the last year, there's been a lot of controversy at the University of Wyoming.  The legislature ordered UW to eliminate its DEI program.  A dean filed a lawsuit over what he claims is was an improper demotion.  And, UW President Dr Ed Seidel has resigned.

Dr Seidel sat down with me for a wide ranging discussion about school funding, successes and controversies during his administration.  We talked about the gigantic amount of money Wyoming Citizens pour into the school--half a billion every two years--free speech and UW being one of the top research schools in America.

A few weeks ago, Mark Meckler and Rick Green gave a presentation in Sheridan about the Convention of States.  For two hours they gave their sales pitch.  It sounded great, except there's a whole bunch they left out--criticism that might dissuade support.  With a little reading, it's obvious an convention is the last thing we need to do as a country.

Two of the supporters of Convention of States Action--the organization Mark Meckler helped found--who appear on promotional materials have written articles that are completely the opposite of what the crowd in Sheridan was told.  In the end, it's obvious, no one should support a convention.

A majority of Americans get their news from social media.  That's not such a bad thing if you understand what you are getting and you check the sources--if there are any sources.  In the State of Wyoming there are a lot of pundits and columnists who post things that appear to be news but really aren't.

A perfect example of this showed up for the weekend.  Nearly every piece of the post was provably false and yet it appeared to be genuine.  Of course, it's from a well-known source who happens to have a column on the Cow Pie.