Dear Editor,
Does it really surprise anyone (anyone!) that it is Rebecca Bextel who perpetrated one of the most categorically shameless stunts ever to hit the Wyoming legislative chamber?
The so-called “activist” who purportedly gained access to the floor by weakly claiming she was somehow a member of the press, has thoroughly exposed her own corrupt and partisan hackery.
Why/how do such people continue to be at the forefront of the MAGA- infused Kool-Aid drinking Republican leadership?
Ms. Bextel’s MO is well known and wearing so thin.
Manufacturing crises (the impending closure of the rodeo by nefarious electeds, fraudulent workforce housing enforcement) and ginning up outrage with lies, innuendo, misleading statements and more, has wasted innumerable hours and dollars of the public’s time and limited financial resources.
Sadly, her actions, statements, tactics and MAGA-fides have duped, confused and inspired non-Teton County representatives to strip Teton County and the town of Jackson of their voter-supported, constitutionally vetted and community-serving housing mitigation efforts.
Are the latter perfect? Without any doubt, no, but they represent a thinking community’s robust ongoing efforts to achieve some balance in a development-weighted market short on realistic opportunities to address growing populations.
John Bear, transplant from MO, an unapologetic adherent to and servant of the national Freedom Caucus agendas, is inseparably linked to Bextel’s shenanigans, both political and now pecuniary.
He has fallen the hardest, as he now champions, with other false conservatives, the removal of home rule prerogatives in favor of state government overreach. His hypocrisy is as bright and reflective as his shaven head.
It seems increasingly apparent that Bextel and Bear, along with others in the Freedom Caucus, wouldn’t know or recognize a Wyoming value if it bit them on their respective arses.
But, by God, they will scheme to wear those mantles and convince the politically ignorant and intellectually vulnerable that less freedom, more (state) government overreach, pathetically irresponsible fiscal management initiatives and other ineptitudes should take the place of real governance!
Whether or not Bextel is criminally or civilly prosecuted for her shameless act, she should be banned from entering legislative spaces whenever same are in session, she should be denied any future press credential, and she should lose her seat as State Committeewoman. Consequence and accountability.
None other than conservative pundit, Ben Shapiro, said it well: “the basic idea that lies behind a good conservatism, I think, is personal responsibility, duty, a requirement that you do the right thing, a basic moral stance about how individuals should act in a free country.”
Yessir.
Sincerely,
Reynolds Pomeroy, Teton County
