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It’s time to take a look at what’s happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, August 5th.  I’m Mac Watson.

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A Laramie man who pleaded guilty Tuesday for saying he might assassinate Gov. Mark Gordon says his Facebook rant has cost him his apartment, job, and college future. Cowboy State Daily’s Kolby Fedore reports that Dawson Cooley says he regrets his actions.

“Back in April, Dawson Cooley was accused of making death threats online to Governor Mark Gordon. Cooley wrote on Facebook, ‘Gov.Gordy. If I have to talk to you with a gun in your office, so be it.’ He added, ‘and I might assassinate you.’ Cowboy State Daily spoke to Cooley after his sentencing, and he expressed deep remorse for his actions. He says he knows what he did was wrong, and if he could take it all back, he would.”

Dawson Cooley was sentenced Tuesday in Albany County Circuit Court after pleading guilty last week to a reduced misdemeanor charge of sending a death threat electronically. 

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Numerous Wyoming Republicans are claiming some degree of credit for a trans sports ban championed by Sen. Wendy Schuler. Cowboy State Daily’s Clair McFarland reports that Schuler says she's happy if they think they helped but it was the Legislature that got the bill "across the finish line.”

“It became a debate when Senator Tara Nethercott did a post saying, ‘Hey, let's give credit where it's due,’ because she was recognizing that a lot of people and their caucuses were campaigning on the issue. She did not directly name the Freedom Caucus, but the Freedom Caucus is one that is taking some credit for the trans sports bans. When I asked Senator Wendy Schuler, she didn't really want to speculate on whether it would or would not have happened without the Freedom Caucus, but she did say ‘it takes a village.’”

Schuler’s first blanket trans sports ban failed the state House of Representatives in 2022. Her second ban, for grades 7-12, passed the Legislature with 79 Republican lawmakers in favor.  So did her third girls’ sports bill extending the ban to college. 

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Seven months after allegedly kidnapping her 11-month-old son, fleeing the state, then killing the infant during a standoff with law enforcement, a trial has been set for Madeline Daly. Cowboy State Daily’s Greg Johnson reports that the baby’s father says  “There’s a special kind of evil at work here.”

“The father is being pretty guarded. He doesn't want to say too much before the trial because you know he wants to let that process come through. and he says quite frankly he would prefer that she's being tried in a federal court because in New Mexico there is no death penalty and in the federal court there is.”

Since there is no death penalty in New Mexico, life in prison also can mean a convicted felon could be up for parole after 30 years.

Nearly 200 people showed up Monday to discuss the safety of Teton Pass following a dump truck crash last month that killed two people and an out-of-control RV that barreled down the pass a week later. Cowboy State Daily’s Kate Meadows reports that crashes have increased by 20% on the roadway in five years.

“That meeting happened on Monday and drew about 200 people to talk about possible solutions to make Teton Pass safer, because people have said enough's enough. Gary Kofinas, who I talked to, one of the organizers said this was not a government meeting. This was a community meeting, kind of formed on an ad hoc basis. So there's no specific solution, no specific step moving forward. It's a matter of just proactively thinking and trying to come up with ideas. There, there is a group that will continue to brainstorm and keep the public informed.”

Teton Pass, which carries traffic between Jackson and eastern Idaho, is one of the steepest highway grades in the continental United States, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol. Traffic reaches roughly 10,000 vehicles per day in winter and about 15,000 daily during the summer tourism season.

I’ll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this.

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In the span of a week, Teton County will host a 500-person, invite-only, digital-asset “Davos.” That will be followed by the Federal Reserve’s elite annual retreat. Cowboy State Daily’s Renee Jean reports that each event is another round in a high-stakes wrestling match over the future of money.

“The guys behind this conference have had conferences in Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, London, Singapore. You know all the big major metropolitan places in the world, and Jackson is on that short list here in Wyoming, so that was kind of point one, and then you know seven days after they clear out, here comes Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, with 120 of the traditional gatekeepers of legacy finance. The theme for this year's Federal Reserve is financial innovation implications for payments and policy. So both of these are clearly about the future of money. It's all happening in Jackson Hole.”

The fact that a digital asset conference with so much global heft is happening in Jackson Hole is not an accident, even if its timing with the Federal Reserve’s annual symposium might be coincidental. Wyoming has spent the better part of a decade quietly rewriting its laws to court this kind of moment.

Sublette County residents came out mostly against proposed mountain biking trails near Pinedale on Tuesday, telling commissioners they worry about harming a vital migration corridor for some 20,000 mule deer. Outdoors Reporter Mark Heinz reports that opponents say the trails won't overlap.

“What is a big deal for some people, is that they say that it would imperil the migration route for mule deer through their for the sublet sublet mule deer herd about a herd of about 20,000 mule deer that that use that that path to migrate back and forth between summer and winter range, and so opponents of this proposed bicycle trail system say it would you know it put a bunch of people right in the deer's territory a bunch of people in human activity and so could disrupt the migration patterns.”

Supporters told the commission the project is planned in a way that it wouldn’t disturb the deer and could provide much-needed recreational access for locals and visitors. The final decision rests with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which oversees the roughly 600 acres involved. 

A Utah auto dealer accused of using forged Wyoming titles to turn hail-battered cars into clean-title bargains is now facing 15 felony counts and up to 30 years in prison. Cowboy State Daily’s Kolby Fedore reports that prosecutors say the scheme involved nearly $2 million worth of damaged vehicles.

“Pryor allegedly obtained these vehicles through an online salvage auction from vehicles that were totaled in an August 2025 historic hailstorm in Cheyenne. Not only did Pryor obtain cars in Wyoming, he's being accused of buying these cars that were damaged throughout the nation. The defendant is currently out of jail on a $5,000 signature bond. He's expected to appear before a judge again for an arraignment in the coming weeks.”

After a preliminary hearing Monday, Scott Keith Pryor, 50, owner of The Good Car Dealer in Salt Lake City, was bound over on 15 felony counts of altering, forging or counterfeiting a certificate of title. Laramie County Circuit Court Judge Antoinette Williams found prosecutors presented enough evidence for the case to proceed.

Scott Artis was just trying to get a video of a thunderstorm for his dad when he captured the lightning strike that started the Kohns Fire in Campbell County on July 27th. Cowboy State Daily’s Andrew Rossi reports that when the fire started roaring, his wife jumped into action.

“Scott saw the lightning strike. A few minutes later, he saw the red glow on the horizon, and his wife called in to 911. And while the Campbell County Fire Department was responding to multiple fires that day, they hadn't heard about that one until they called. So not only did they see the instigating incident, they were responsible for letting the county know that there was a fire that they needed to address. They contained it at 2,700 acres.”

Artis, along with his wife, moved to Wyoming from California's Bay Area, and is a former molecular biologist.

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<title>Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wednesday's headlines include:
* Everyone Running On Trans Law
* Man Regrets Death Threat On Gordon
* Jackson Is Epicenter For Economic Gurus

Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Coy Knobel

Don Day Weather

Sunny, smoky in Wyoming on Wednesday and smoky overnight. Highs from the upper 70s to near 90. Lows from near 40 to upper 50s.

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Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 88 mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 52.

Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 90 and mostly clear overnight with widespread smoke mainly before 8 p.m. and a low near 53.

  Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 89 mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 55.

  Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 83 and mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 46.

  Patchy smoke, sunny and breezy today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 50 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

 Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 84 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 39.

 Areas of smoke, sunny and breezy today with a high near 79 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 42 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.

 Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 84 mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 45.

  Areas of smoke, sunny and breezy today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 39 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.

 Areas of smoke, sunny and breezy today with a high near 78 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 46 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph.

  Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 83 mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 44.

Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park

:  Widespread smoke mainly before 8 a.m., sunny today with a high near 75 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 41.

Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 88 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 56 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

:  Widespread smoke mainly before 2 p.m., sunny today with a high near 83 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 56.

  Widespread smoke mainly before 8 a.m., sunny today with a high near 82 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 52.

   Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 81 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 56.

  Patchy smoke after noon, mostly sunny today with a high near 88 and mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 50.

:   Patchy smoke after 9 a.m., mostly sunny today with a high near 86 and mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 52.

Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 54 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

   Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 16 mph. Mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 56.

:  Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 17 mph. Mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 54 and wind gusts as high as 17 mph.

  Patchy smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 82 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke before 9 p.m. and a low near 58.

  Patchy smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 81 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke before 11 p.m. and a low near 54.

  Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 87 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 53 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

   Patchy smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 80 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke before 7 p.m. and a low near 53.

  Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 81 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 49.

  Patchy smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 82 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 47.

   Patchy smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 82 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 53.

   Patchy smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 84 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 46.

   Patchy smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 81 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 50.

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Sunny, smoky in Wyoming on Wednesday and smoky overnight.  Highs from the upper 70s to near 90. Lows from near 40 to upper 50s.

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Kolby fedore

Kolby Fedore

Crime & Courts

Nearly two months after Wyoming prosecutors accused a Utah car dealer of 

 to resell hundreds of hail-damaged Wyoming vehicles using fraudulent titles, the criminal case has advanced to district court.

After a preliminary hearing Monday, Scott Keith Pryor, 50, owner of The Good Car Dealer in Salt Lake City, was bound over on 15 felony counts of altering, forging or counterfeiting a certificate of title.

Laramie County Circuit Court Judge Antoinette Williams found prosecutors presented enough evidence for the case to proceed.

Each felony count alleges a violation of Wyoming's title fraud statute, which carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison.

The charges stem from what investigators describe as an elaborate title scheme involving vehicles damaged during the historic August 2025 hailstorm that battered Cheyenne.

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The affidavit filed by Wyoming investigators alleges Pryor purchased 292 hail-damaged vehicles with an estimated value of nearly $2 million after insurers declared them total losses.

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Normally, vehicles sold through those auctions receive titles reflecting their salvage status or other branding intended to alert buyers that the vehicles sustained significant damage.

Investigators say Pryor instead sought duplicate Wyoming titles that removed those brands, allowing some vehicles to be sold for substantially more money than they otherwise could have commanded.

The criminal case centers on 15 vehicles investigators say were fraudulently retitled.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation ultimately identified numerous irregularities in title applications connected to the vehicles.

Among them, investigators allege, were forged signatures, counterfeit notary seals and fraudulent paperwork submitted in the names of previous owners.

Perhaps the most startling allegation involved paperwork purportedly signed by a Wyoming woman who had died weeks before the August 2025 hailstorm occurred.

Investigators allege another application listed a notary whose commission had expired years earlier.

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During an interview with investigators, Pryor acknowledged using a company he identified as "Tennessee Titles," according to the affidavit.

He told investigators he found the business through Facebook and paid approximately $150 for each title application.

According to investigators, Pryor identified the people he worked with only as "Rashard" and "Miss Catherine."

The affidavit says Pryor told investigators he simply submitted vehicle information and received paperwork back.

Investigators, however, allege the documents contained forged signatures and counterfeit notarizations that allowed duplicate Wyoming titles to be issued.

Those allegations remain unproven and will now be considered in district court.

At the time charges were filed in June, Cheyenne auto dealer Dallas Tyrrell said dealers were still dealing with the storm's aftermath.

"We see victims to scams like this all the time," Tyrrell told Cowboy State Daily. 

A vehicle's title history can be every bit as important as its mechanical condition, he said, because it affects its value, financing and insurability. 

"It's so important to use somebody that has a license and is reputable," Tyrrell said.

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After Cowboy State Daily first reported Pryor's arrest in June, a woman named Brooklyn Arthur reached out to say she believed her own experience mirrored some of the allegations now playing out in court.

"I wanted to reach out because I was a customer of his too," Arthur wrote.

Arthur said she purchased a hail-damaged vehicle from Pryor in approximately September 2024, nearly a year before the Wyoming hailstorm at the center of the criminal case.

"He was very reassuring in the beginning, and there were no issues at first," she said.

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"I never received the title after 11 months of having the car," she said. "There was a duplicate title involved in the process,. He also mentioned getting the title from Tennessee, similar to what your article mentions."

Arthur's vehicle purchase is not part of the Wyoming criminal case, and prosecutors have not alleged her transaction was criminal.

Still, she said reading the charging documents immediately reminded her of her own experience.

Cowboy State Daily reached out Tuesday to Pryor’s attorney Thomas Garvie seeking comment on Monday's hearing as well as Arthur's account. He did not immediately respond.

Pryor has not yet entered a plea in district court. He will next appear for an arraignment. 

Court records show the case is being prosecuted by William Joseph Edelman.

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<title>Case Advances Against Dealer Charged With Forging Wyoming Titles For Hail-Damaged Cars | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Utah auto dealer accused of using forged Wyoming titles to turn hail-battered cars into clean-title bargains is now facing 15 felony counts and up to 30 years in prison. Prosecutors say the scheme involved nearly $2 million worth of damaged vehicles.

Case Advances Against Dealer Charged With Forging Wyoming Titles For Hail-Damaged Cars

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Clair McFarland

Politics

Numerous Wyoming Republicans are propping their messaging this election season on trans sports bans. 

Which has prompted a debate about who gets credit for the Wyoming’s set of bans on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s school sports. 

The reflexive answer is the bills’ sponsor, Sen. Wendy Schuler, R-Evanston. But Schuler in her Tuesday phone interview chuckled at her fairness-in-sports-bills becoming high-profile campaign fodder for others, and said, “it takes a village.” 

Her first blanket trans sports ban failed the state House of Representatives in 2022. Her second ban, for grades 7-12, passed the Legislature with 79 Republican lawmakers in favor. 

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Secretary of State Chuck Gray has campaigned on sports fairness in at least one YouTube video in his bid for the GOP nomination to U.S. House. 

Also the Protecting Wyoming Values PAC, which backs Gray, dispatched a mailer this summer noting he co-sponsored one of the fairness bills. 

As of July 29, that PAC had raised nearly $1 million and was funded exclusively by Gray’s father, 

The mailer shows a heavyset, hairy male with an ample chest, wearing a crop top, grimacing down at a soccer ball while smaller females frown behind him. 

It also says Gray “made banning biological males from women’s college sports a top priority” and notes that Gray “blasted” politicians who didn’t sue over President Joe Biden’s trans-friendly reinterpretation of federal education laws. 

Wyoming sued over those rules in August 2024, three months after Gray lamented it hadn’t. 

A message from the campaign of Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder, who is running for governor, says she championed Wyoming’s ban on transgender athletes from high school into college. It also notes she led Wyoming’s 2024 litigation against the Biden administration over its reinterpretation. 

And the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, which comprises a controversial group of Republican state House legislators, wrote in a Facebook post this week: “We protected women’s sports from men.” 

In context, Gray did not mobilize Wyoming’s enacted trans-athlete bans directly because the successful versions passed once Gray was in the executive branch, overseeing elections and business filings.

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 have vocally promoted protections for Wyoming’s female school athletes. 

The record reflects that Degenfelder helped to lead the state’s litigation against Biden; and her department offered suggestions to strengthen Wyoming’s first successful trans sports ban. She joined 

 to petition the Biden administration in 2023, and co-authored 

 on the topic with U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman last year. 

As for the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, whether the bans could have passed without its involvement depends on whom you ask. 

Freedom Caucus legislators voted in favor of each proposed ban, each year. 

“I don’t think any one group was better at getting it through than all of us,” said Schuler of the Legislature. “I was the biggest cheerleader. But I don’t think any one caucus should pat themselves too much on the back … you have to have a coalition when you’re trying to get a bill passed.”

Schuler said she tries to stay out of division and speak to lawmakers across the political spectrum. 

“It’s interesting the other folks are taking a lot of credit for having helped,” said Schuler, with a laugh. “I’m happy if they think they’ve helped in some way shape or form. But it was the Legislature, obviously, that helped get the bill across the finish line.” 

Sen. Tara Nethercott in a Sunday Facebook post urged people, “Don’t fall for Cheap Shots. Wyoming’s female athletes have been protected for years.”

The post says that “many candidates, and their caucus, are claiming they fought to protect girls’ and women’s sports.” 

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Schuler, who is not a member of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, brought her first trans-athlete ban attempt in 2022. 

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It proposed a blanket ban on “students of the male sex” from public-school-backed sports from primary school through higher education.

It cleared the Senate with Republican Sens. Nethercott, Cale Case, and Drew Perkins opposed, as well as the chamber’s two Democrats, Sens. Mike Gierau and Chris Rothfuss.

The House killed the bill in a 21-37 vote against resurrecting it from then-House Speaker Eric Barlow’s drawer.

Barlow, now a state senator, is one of Degenfelder’s campaign opponents in the race for governor. 

He noted in a Tuesday interview that when the resurrection vote for Schuler’s bill came on March 7, 2022, the Legislature was focused on passing a budget and finishing the required, once-in-a-decade process of re-drawing legislative district lines. 

That bill would have died by deadline anyway because the chamber requires a committee vetting, plus one of three House readings per day. And the shortened session was almost over, he added.

The bill “largely mirrored Idaho’s law,” wrote Nethercott in a Sunday Facebook post. And Idaho’s law was immediately challenged and spent four years “tied up in litigation” before the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it in June, she noted. 

House Appropriations Chair John Bear, who led the Freedom Caucus at that time, voiced a different take on that vote in a Tuesday text message.

“The small number of conservatives in the early WYFC forced a vote to bring it out of (Barlow’s) drawer, which failed,” wrote Bear. “It wasn’t until the WYFC grew its ranks in the 2022 election cycle that we protected women’s sports, and the (bill that succeeded) didn’t protect ALL sports.” 

“It’s clear that these protections never would’ve happened if it weren’t for the WYFC forcing votes and accountability.” 

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In the 2023 general session Schuler brought a narrower bill banning trans sports participation from grades 7-12, with a safety net provision to help the state resolve trans sports cases fairly if a court blocked the ban. 

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“I believe that men should not be participating in women’s or girls sports, period,” said Barlow on Tuesday. 

Nethercott’s Facebook post says the bill was “crafted to better withstand constitutional scrutiny, and put protections for Wyoming’s girls into effect years before the Idaho litigation was finally resolved.” 

Gray’s now-House opponent Senate President Bo Biteman co-sponsored that bill. Yet, Biteman has not campaigned extensively, if at all, on this issue. 

Biteman did not immediately return a Tuesday voicemail request for comment. 

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“I thought about (adding) the collegiate section then,” said Schuler. But she decided to test the waters with the high school ban, she added. 

One more budget session, 2024, passed without changes to Wyoming’s trans sports law. 

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That autumn, the University of Wyoming’s women’s volleyball team started boycotting games with San Jose State University – after news broke that one of SJSU’s top players was transgender. 

Some UW volleyball women are still in litigation over what they’ve called a breach of federal education law. 

Schuler decided to broach the college sports topic again in the 2025 lawmaking session. So did another non-Freedom Caucus lawmaker, Rep. Martha Lawley, R-Worland.

“Hers was a little different than mine but not drastically,” Schuler recalled in a nod to Lawley.

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Wyoming now bans trans participation in girls and women’s public school sports from grades seven through college. 

Gray in a Tuesday text message said he has a track record of protecting girls and women’s sports, and led the motion to foist the 2022 bill from Barlow’s drawer. 

Gray blamed its late-session failure on “insiders and the Left” and said, “Only after we continued the pressure to advance this common sense measure in 2022 and 2023 did it ever happen.”

Numerous Wyoming Republicans are claiming some degree of credit for a trans sports ban championed by Sen. Wendy Schuler.  Schuler says she's happy if they think they helped but it was the Legislature that got the bill "across the finish line.”

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