Dear editor:
I was disappointed to read the Reid Rasner letter to the editor (“Wyoming Education Association Should Terminate Staffer,” September 16, 2025) calling out by name a fellow Wyoming citizen for censure and the loss of her job over her viewpoints.
Mr. Rasner wants to be the Governor of Wyoming, yet he uses his voice to criticize, censure and cancel an educator with whom he disagrees.
Mr. Rasner has turned his policy disagreements with the Wyoming Education Association into a personal attack on one Wyoming citizen, a member of the Board of Directors, for what she said.
Mr. Rasner acknowledges her free speech rights and argues that his call for her “immediate termination” isn’t about “censorship.”
I think that any of us on the receiving end of this kind of attack for something we said on Facebook, might disagree with Mr. Rasner.
A Wyoming Governor, Mike Sullivan, well-described Wyoming as a “small town with long streets.”
We are a big state with a low population where we know one another. Although we may live at a distance we are “neighbors” as we work together for Wyoming.
We disagree respectfully knowing that we need one another.
The Code of the West is part of Wyoming law – the Code’s fifth rule states: “Be tough, but fair.” Mr. Rasner can attack the Wyoming Education Association as hard and “tough” as he needs to, but calling for the termination of an individual for her viewpoint is not “fair.”
It isn’t the Wyoming way. Let’s not go down this path neighbors.
Sincerely,
Rebecca W. Watson, Cody
