Hello, and thanks to those of you who were able to join our statewide volunteer call last night. We hope that you are all staying well in these challenging times. If you were unable to make the call, you can find an AUDIO VERSION OF THE CALL HERE.
The Wyoming Legislature will next [...]
REMINDER: Coffee and Cake with Legislators, Monday, February 24, 9:00 - 10:00 am, WO53 off Connector, Wyoming State Capitol Building in Cheyenne.
If you are planning on attending the event at the capitol, please let us know so we have a rough estimate of attendees.
REMINDER: Coffee and Cake with Legislators, Monday, February 24, 9:00 – 10:00 am, WO53 off Connector, Wyoming State Capitol Building in Cheyenne.
Before that event, we would like to invite anyone interested to a short 30 minute all volunteer call on Monday, February 17, 7:00 pm. To participate in the call, please click on this LINK to register, and you [...]
The Wyoming Promise Board of Directors recently met to discuss our efforts moving forward. One of the results of our discussion was to schedule a statewide conference call for all volunteers and individuals interested in sharing information and participating in two upcoming activities that will help keep this issue on our lawmakers’ radar as we seek to re-introduce FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS [...]
At our retreat in Casper in April, we decided as a group to focus our efforts on persuading the legislature to adopt a resolution calling on Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to overturn the rationale that led to the Citizens United decision. The idea is to add Wyoming to the list of states (now up to 20) that are ready to ratify an amendment to [...]
Thanks to all of the volunteers that were able to attend our retreat in Casper last weekend. If you were unable to attend, you can view the Friday evening session on our Facebook page at this link: https://www.facebook.com/WyomingPromise/videos/603198623425151/
WE HAVE HAD TO UPDATE THE LOCATION FOR THE RETREAT!
The Ramkota HotelThe Quality Inn has agreed to a special rate for this Volunteer Event of the Season!
$79 + 9% lodging tax per night
They have a block of rooms available. The rate will [...]
Thanks to everyone who has already responded to attending the Wyoming Promise Retreat in Casper on Friday, April 19 – Saturday, April 20 to help plan our path forward!
There is still time to let us know if you would like to attend if you have not responded yet, but please do so as soon as possible. We are in the process of finalizing organization details such as hotel [...]
Join Wyoming Promise as we appear live on the Better Wyoming “Legislative Lowdown” Facebook livecast at 3 p.m., on Friday, March 1st. The livecast will be streamed from the Better Wyoming and Wyoming Promise Facebook pages. You can view the show from either page.
I wish I had better news.
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
