Wyoming House District 17
The Wyoming House of Representative is the lower house of the state legislature. Similar to the U.S. House of Representatives, they work with Senators to create laws, set the state budget, and determine state tax rates. State Representatives are elected to a two-year term with no term limits.
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Rah Reinholz
(Dem)
Why are you running for this office? Describe the experience and skills that make you the most qualified candidate.
Do you support the ballot initiative for a 50% reduction in property taxes, and why? If passed, should the state backfill the loss of local revenue? Please explain.
Do you support or oppose the sale or exchange of public lands? Please explain.
Is the current structure and funding level for public education appropriate? Please explain.
What is your opinion on the use of public funds for social services?
Campaign Phone
3072120841
I'm running for office to serve the everyday Wyomingites that are the most effected by legislation and often times the least consulted when it matters most. I have lived in Wyoming all my life and keep up to date on the states wellbeing via news, conversations and lived experience. I have seen this state morph in a way that drives the youth away and puts corporate institutions above citizens and communities. I care about Wyoming and wish to see it be place where people stay, and thrive. I have participated as a state delegate, an election judge, and as a political ambassador while a student. Experience and qualifications for representing the people is more then titles held but willingness to listen, learn and put in the hard work.
No, I don't support reduction of property tax as it harms our communities and puts further stress on our already thin stretched social services. The reduction in property tax helps very few and hurts every single community in the state. If passed the state should backfill the lost revenue not because its right, but because its the states duty to care for its people.
I strongly oppose the sale or exchange of public lands. Our lands should be shepherd, by the people for the best intrest of the people. It should never be sold or exchanged without the explicit consent of those it would effect. We are a state of resource extraction and I believe that should continue and but we should value our lands not only by what sits in the soil
The current structure and funds is not appropriate for public education. We need to be investing more in to our schools. In these post pandemic years we haven't given the support needed to recover our levels of education we once held. Our youth and our educators deserve better. They do not need the state stripping funds to hand to private institutes or legislation placing red tape on where funds must be spent.
Public funds should be used on social services. Wyomingites support the state with our labor and the public funds in Wyoming should support us in turn. We the people are the foundation of the state and the duty of our government should be to betterment and support of its people. Social services are a cornerstone of that. If we wish to see people stay and generations to continue we have to have programs that allow that type of prosperity without it we drive people to other states that offer that kind of support.
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