OPINION
My local Teton County “news” paper, run by socialists, would feature up to three articles a day about me or the incident. They inaccurately claimed I got on the floor with press credentials, reminisced about a Mexican vacation during the hearing, claimed I could not remember what I said to legislators on the House floor.
The counterfeit Republicans began piling on, too.
First came the “Republicans” in the House who were oppossed to HB 141, only because of the optics. Otherwise, they would be in favor of private property rights, they claimed.
An Investigative Committee was formed, and these seven appointees were not my friends. Until I saw the “R” by her name, I thought Representative Marilyn Connolly was a Democrat. I had never heard of Chairman Art Washut.
Laramie County Sheriff, Brian Kozak, announced an investigation into me via Facebook on a Saturday. When the media momentarily forgot about him, Kozak doubled down with another announcement about his super special subpoena powers. Can you imagine how this feels? I am now solely responsible for propping up Sheriff Kozak’s future political campaign, if only he can find something on my phone to get the media attention back on him!
And what about all the private “Republican” citizens who took full advantage to turn on conservatives, like disgruntled Scott Clem and feeble Taylor Allred? They showed their true colors!
By the way, after an extensive investigation, the House Special Investigation Committee found that no rules or laws had been broken, but that did not matter.
The Senate zombies had already piled on. The living dead, like Senators Stephan Pappas and Cale Case, who have not seen a campaign donation in years, became disgusted with $1,500 campaign donations given to others. Despite a lack of support, somehow, these senators reappear every session to vote against the best interest of their constituents.
Even though only a single, legal campaign check was ever handed off to a Senator by me (and that was nowhere near the senate floor!), Senate President Biteman declared HB 141 “tainted.” This is how he explained that the right thing to do was to leave thousands of people burdened by unconstitutional policies.
Vice President Tim Salazar abandoned his own bill to tank HB 141 out of fear, despite having the votes in his committee to advance the bill.
It was hard watching grown men be so terrified of the senate master, Tara Nethercott. It scares me too that she never smiles, but I’ve always thought this was medically induced, and I hoped that she was still smiling on the inside.
Ahead of the vote, Senator Nethercott complained about having to fix Teton County’s problems. Sorry about that. We thought since we lived in Wyoming, that was your job.
And even though HB 141 was only three paragraphs long and banned unconstitutional housing mitigation fees, Nethercott argued that this bill was about “money,” and not “private property rights.” She claimed it wasn’t “fulfilling any constitutional obligation” and to “resist the threats.” It felt like she was playing the part of a heroine trying to be seductive in a movie scene, right before she leads the troops through a victorious battle, where only she knows the way.
But all this left me wondering if we were still talking about the same bill that passed in the House to protect private property rights and stop unconstitutional housing mitigation fees.
Next up, Senator Dockstader suggested he had “sticky hands” and he needed to “wash his hands of it,” despite not generating a single campaign contribution in four years. But now I’m back to the senate zombie apocalypse!
Back home, I faced a censure within my own Teton County Republican Party. The bringer of the motion said she felt we should all tell the truth and be held accountable when we didn’t. As I peeled away at the layers of abomination, I realized that I was being accused of initially denying passing out checks on the House floor. I never once denied anything, and the motion rightfully failed.
Look at what the fake news media has done to us Republicans! Look at the vitriol for conservatives fighting for the people! Look how easily a few Democrats got an entire body off course!
Despite all of this, I want to switch up the usual narrative of Republicans continuing to fight their fellow Republicans, while we lose sight of the real issues.
Something has been uncovered that has not yet been addressed.
We learned that the Legislative Services Director, Matt Obrecht, worked directly with the Democrats to push through an agenda that ultimately derailed our budget session. Let’s hold him accountable.
I requested video footage outside of Director Obrecht’s office to help piece together the timeline with Provenza. The Wyoming Highway Patrol said the footage is gone, despite the session not even being over yet. In other words, there is a current criminal investigation going on, according to Facebook, and records have already been lost.
Please read and sign the enclosed petition if you would like to fight back against the unelected bureaucrats that are possibly working directly against the will of the people in the great state of Wyoming.
Anything digital is recoverable.
https://eyesonwyoming.com/petition-to-investigate-lso-director-obrecht/