Wyoming GOP Can Name Their Primary Picks, Funding Them Is the Fight

Wyoming GOP can name their primary picks, funding them is the fight

CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Republican Party picked sides last week, endorsing candidates in six statewide and federal races less than a month before the Aug. 18 primary. It did so under a state law it is simultaneously fighting in federal court, and it named its own chief elections officer, Secretary of State Chuck Gray, […]

Wyoming GOP’s decision to endorse primary candidates faced healthy internal opposition

I’m going to do something that’s very uncharacteristic for me: be positive about what happened at a Wyoming Republican Party leadership committee meeting last week. It could be painful, but here goes. Opinion The panel has long leaned to the far right, and a meeting to decide who the GOP would endorse in the Aug. 18 primary was no exception. But I was encouraged by how much internal opposition surfaced to the idea of party leaders endorsing can…

Wyoming GOP can name their primary picks. Funding them is the fight

CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Republican Party picked sides last week, endorsing candidates in six statewide and federal races less than a month before the Aug. 18 primary. It did so under a state law it is simultaneously fighting in federal court, and it named its own chief elections officer, Secretary of State Chuck Gray, as the defendant. Gray is also one of the six it endorsed. Wyoming GOP sues state, challenges constitutionality of ban on pre…