Hard-Right Freedom Caucus Takes Power in Wyoming
www.nytimes.com
A Freedom Caucus bloc has never won control of a state legislative chamber — until now. Some lawmakers worry that the newly ascendant conservatives want to “burn it all down.”

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16584650

Their agenda, known as the Five and Dime Plan, aims to immediately tighten election rules, invalidate drivers’ licenses issued to undocumented immigrants by other states, prohibit college diversity initiatives, prohibit the state from considering environmental concerns when making investment decisions and reduce property taxes.

  • @[email protected]
    4•3 days ago

    Mr. Zwonitzer [Republican] was critical of the Freedom Caucus’s focus on social issues like sex, books and bathrooms.

    “A lot of us who’ve been in the last four years — it’s not fun,” he said. “If the Freedom Caucus is in power for four years and we don’t get the right governor elected, the effects will show up in four to five years, and then it’ll be a decade for us to pull ourselves back.”

    …

    Chief among the concerns for Senator Chris Rothfuss, a Democrat who represents Laramie, home of the University of Wyoming, was safeguarding the state’s $30 billion sovereign wealth fund, more than a third of which comes from taxes on oil, gas and natural resources. Interest income from the fund has been crucial in funding schools and the state’s annual budget, but Freedom Caucus leaders, determined to shrink government, are contemplating giving some of that money back to residents.

    I hope the residents of Wyoming get everything they voted for. Now, I’m gonna sit back and enjoy the shitshow.

    And here’s a little reminder of what happens when a state is controlled by extremist conservatives. As Trump Proposes Tax Cuts, Kansas Deals With Aftermath Of Experiment (NPR). It turns out lowering taxes and implementing spending cuts don’t improve the economy. In fact, it slowed and weakened and Kansas fell behind relative to its neighboring states.

    • Phoenixz
      2•3 days ago

      contemplating giving back some of that money to residents a few rich assholes

      Ftfy