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Last night (Tuesday), after impassioned testimony from many of our great volunteers, the Senate Corporations, Elections and Local Governments Committee voted down HJ0008 by a vote of two yays to three nays. Senators Tara Nethercott and Wendy Schuler voted yay, while Senators
Now that HJ0008, Free and Fair Elections, passed the House, it has been assigned to the Senate Corporations Committee, which may be a hostile environment to us. See the language of HJ008 here:
February 12th, 2019
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Yesterday, the Wyoming House of Representatives gave FINAL APPROVAL to HJ0008, our Free and Fair Elections resolution. The final vote was a comfortable 37-20-3, with one of the three absent legislators also being a strong supporter.
Credit for this outstanding result must go to the hundreds of volunteers all over Wyoming who circulated [...]
Our Free and Fair Elections resolution has passed the House Committee of the Whole this evening! We expect a second reading tomorrow, and hopefully a third and final (adoption) vote on Wednesday. We have been informed by a representative that YOUR OUTREACH MADE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THIS OUTCOME.
PLEASE KEEP CONTACTING YOUR REPRESENTATIVE! We don’t have an accounting [...]
Cheyenne, WY, February 4, 2019 — The Wyoming House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 8, “Free and Fair Elections,” on first reading in a busy Committee of the Whole session today by a voice vote. The resolution calls on the United States Congress to propose a 28th Constitutional Amendment, seeking to overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which granted corporations the right to [...]
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