Dear editor:
Remember when we recognized that differences of opinion and ideas across our various representatives in government was what led to smart experiments and outcomes?
Collaborative policies helped create a well-informed and thriving middle class, one that impressed the world with joyfully engaged everyday people in neighborly communities.
We can choose to be that way again — and that means leaving behind this idea that one party knows best and everyone in that one party must vote the exact way that one man tells them to.
Our great constitutional government creates checks and balances, but our entire congressional delegation is convinced — somehow — to stay quiet and go along with one man and all his strange delusions.
Legislating actually requires thinking, and having differences of opinion. Our delegation has expressed none.
The current administration openly threatens every member of its own party regarding party-line votes. Most of those are not in the public interest.
A golden ballroom with advanced bunker capability to keep a few individuals “safe”?
Originally a promise for private funding, but now a billion dollar taxpayer swindle. For example.
War profiteering, for another one — with the president’s family pulling in massive amounts from defense contracts, with profits at Shell up 112%, at BP 132%, and some anonymous investors raking in millions through insider trading just ahead of every government war announcement.
While our young service members are sent to the front lines.
Nonetheless, a Congress controlled by the one party that this administration considers its own is again using a special budget process to exclude any other voices.
Almost half the country is represented by congressional members who aren’t being allowed to exercise their required budget authority?
We expect more from Wyoming legislators, with our tradition of free thinking and independence. That tradition, under this delegation, has been abandoned.
We expect Wyoming legislators to do the hard, and valuable, work of negotiation.
Wyoming legislators must speak out against authoritarian tactics. One party rule never works in the public interest.
Call your members of Congress, or write, telling them to stand up for our democracy. Before it disappears.
Sincerely,
Sidney Woods, Afton
