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I am running because I care about the people of Wyoming and I want this state to remain a place where people have the choice to stay and build a life. Wyoming has given my family a good life, and I want future generations to have that same opportunity.
My wife Kelly and I have lived Wyoming, worked Wyoming, and served Wyoming. We have raised our children, made decisions about schools and healthcare, signed the front of a paycheck, worked with producers and rural communities, and I have served in the Legislature, solving problems that affect real people.
These experiences have prepared me to lead Wyoming in a way that understands our state, respects its people, and gets results.
Wyoming grows revenue by making it easier to invest, build, and produce here. Government should be right-sized so agencies are efficient and properly resourced. Government, overregulation or lack of staff, should not be the reason projects are held up or delayed.
Growth also means communities have the infrastructure necessary to thrive, welcoming new investment, innovation, and good-paying jobs that support strong communities in ways that fit the community's culture.
Our public lands are also a critical part of that foundation. They support grazing, energy production, recreation, and tourism, and are not for sale.
We need a Wyoming that is positioned to compete, grow, and sustain strong communities into the future.
Our most pressing challenge is keeping communities strong and livable, which is getting harder as costs rise and access to essential services becomes harder.
Healthcare access and affordability are central to that challenge. On Aug. 19, I will assemble a healthcare strike team to bring together folks across Wyoming impacted by rural healthcare challenges to help identify Wyoming solutions.
As governor, I will give you direct access to me and ensure your needs are heard sooner by reorganizing the Governor’s Office to include locally hired regional representatives.
By showing up, listening, and working together, we can make Wyoming a place where communities thrive, and our kids can choose to stay and build their future.
The state should not be in the job of picking winners and losers. Its role is to create the conditions where private investment can succeed and communities can grow. That means focusing on a stable, predictable workforce environment, supporting education and training partnerships, and ensuring that infrastructure and core services are in place to create opportunity.
Economic development also depends on relationships and engagement. I have worked across Wyoming with community and business leaders to make sure local interests are well represented when decisions are made that affect our economy and communities. I have also demanded the same from Washington, D.C.
Water and wildlife don’t follow state lines, and Wyoming has to stay engaged with other Western states to manage those shared resources in a practical way.
As a headwater state, Wyoming must protect its water rights while also working with neighboring states in a way that is grounded in law, science, and the long-term needs of communities, agriculture and our energy development.
Wildlife habitat also crosses state lines, and management must reflect this reality while balancing conservation with other uses. These decisions will be made transparently and with public input.
As governor, I would stay directly engaged with other Western governors and focus on practical solutions that respect Wyoming’s role and responsibilities.
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The reason I'm running for that office is to fight for Wyoming. I have since I started in 2002, my political career I have not stopped. I have 24 years experience. I've run for every state office in Carbon County and three times for Governor. Do I know politics? Do I know how it works inside? You bet I do. From 2002-2026, I've been involved.
I've always said I want free and open elections and I want them bad. That's why I keep doing it. We're not allowed free and open elections due to our history. We have a closed primary. I don't like that and I don't think that's fair to the people who live in Wyoming.
You want someone who wants to fight for you, I'm a plant. A plant that is perennial. A thorn to a rose.
I'm going to make the state of Wyoming start to follow its laws. That means revenues. I have done an eight year study on Elk Mountain, just a little town, that has lost close to $50,000. How do I do that? Real Simple. Wyoming's constitution and the federal constitution are real specific on what you can do and what you can't do. We're going to start doing what we're supposed to be doing if I'm Governor. That means all people can speak. People put the laws to us. Right now, they don't enforce what the law is for. They're right there in the books. And they say we don't have funding? I could make real easy, through a state highway, buku bucks.
Number one- I want universal health care. You achieve nothing if you don't try and we have the money to try because we have 583,000 people in Wyoming. You take 6%, you can get it done if you tax the rich.
Number two- the people who retire and lived all of their lives in Wyoming, earn respect. We do away with property tax completely. If you're retired and you paid off your house, why do we keep charging them? It's like branding a horse, you brand it one time. But, you brand your car every year, I don't agree with that. Once you pay off your title, there are states that don't do that anymore. I want to look all the way through the taxes. People are getting taxed to the extreme. I want to flip it and have it come back around to the big boys.
Learning through my political career, the economic development corps? That's not what it is, I served three years on it. It should've been sunsetted in 2011 and it wasn't. Economic Development in Wyoming is to throw it back to small businesses. Throw it back to where it came from. Give small businesses the breaks that they deserve. We can't advertise, but non-profits can and that isn't right. School districts are given grants, but they mostly go to government. Right now, our small municipalities are relying on impact funds. And who gives them the impact funds? The wind farms and everything else that's being developed. If it's AI that's coming, I'd tax the living hell out of them. If we have the courage to do it, we can get it done.
Water is a critical issue. It just doesn't flow to Wyoming, it flows across the Earth's service. We have to become partners, not adversaries. We can do it, but it'll take what I call the courage to recognize what we have. We have great wildlife, we have great water systems that are being abused due to national water rights. I think that Congress needs to relook at their distribution plans. It's titles just like on ranches. In Wyoming, we have all these dams that go to Nebraska, they have the water rights, we don't.
