It was Bruce Williams who sued Gillette Mayor Shay Lundvall demanding that he should be allowed to deliver invocations at meetings in the same proportion as there are atheists in Wyoming. Pew Research suggests some 3% of Wyoming residents say they are atheist, so Williams presumably was arguing to deliver invocations at 3% of the meetings, meaning about three every eight years if the meetings were monthly.

He had been permitted to deliver his speech at least once a year for the last nine years. But a report at Cowboy State Daily explained he demanded more.

District Judge Stuart S. Healy III originally dismissed the case, explaining the city and mayor have immunity from lawsuits under these circumstances. The state Supreme Court now has agreed, the report explained.

Williams also had complained he was required to cite the Pledge of Allegiance, to which he objected because it includes the words “under God.”

The decision from the high court said, “We acknowledge Mr. Williams’s efforts to convince us to allow his complaint to proceed. However, ‘(the) decision of whether to waive immunity for a governmental entity – belongs to the Wyoming Legislature, not this court.’”

The decision was written by Justice Lynne Boomgaarden. Under Wyoming’s Constitution, the state and its political subdivisions are immune from lawsuits unless the lawmakers authorize them.

Their latest update on that issue came in 1979 when they adopted the Wyoming Governmental Immunity Act which provides permission for lawsuits for specific situations.

That law also, the court ruling said, while allowing some contract lawsuits, is not a tool for launching civil rights fights. That would be, the ruling said, a federal law.

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The economic and environmental disaster of abandoning fossil fuels is only exceeded by the fraud and duplicity with which the advocates of such policies tout them as resounding successes. Most wind farms never recoup the actual cost and energy required to construct them, and when wind turbines eventually fail, the non-recyclable nature of their composite parts require enormous landfills and other very costly means of disposal, all of which create vast, expensive polluted regions. No problem though! If it isn’t mentioned on the nightly Fake News, most people never spend a moment worrying about it.

The whole “green energy” delusion is akin to the Covid lockdown with all its excesses, abuses, fearmongering, and oppression, only on slow burn. And like Covid, the policies are no more about actually “saving the planet” than were the despotic over-reaches of the Covid nightmare about public “health and safety.” Moreover, the disastrous consequences of an anemic “green” American economy, and the dangerously weakened status of our country as energy dependent, portend dire repercussions that far outweigh the absurdly high prices Americans have to face at the gas pumps. Leftists glory in such hardship, knowing that in the end, it achieves their real goal, which is the acquisition of uncontested power.

So on a hard-left slanted public stage, Gordon saw fit to grandstand in a manner that thoroughly betrays the people whom he claims to represent. Sounding more like California’s Democrat governor Gavin Newsom than the rugged Patriots for which Wyoming is so well known, Gordon promises (threatens?) that Wyoming will be the first state to be “carbon negative,” meaning that it will somehow absorb more carbon than its vast energy resources produce.

Of course he fails to mention that doing so would only be possible if the people live like third world peasants. Such details are hardly points of concern to ruling class elitists who somehow never have to abide by the squalor and deprivation they deem suitable for the little people on “Main Street.”

Sadly, this is far from being the first time the good citizens of the Cowboy State have been deceived and undercut by swamp creatures masquerading under the banner of being “Republicans.” It was only last year that Wyomingites gave RINO Liz Cheney a decisive boot to send her packing, after she showed herself to be totally in bed with such notable leftists as Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, both of whom are particularly noxious California Democrats. Unfortunately, Gordon was reelected at the same time, meaning Wyoming will have to suffer his two-faced agenda until 2026.

Meanwhile, back in Cheyenne, the State Legislature is suffering its own miseries under the thoroughly sullied headship of House Speaker Albert Sommers, another devout and consistent RINO. While vastly bloating the state budget last year with an archetypical “by now pay later” financial shell game, Sommers sees fit to attack not the leftist climate hysteria of the Governor, nor the state’s handful of Democrat legislators, but the Conservative Patriots of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus.

Amazingly, Sommers decries the Freedom Caucus for it’s ostensibly “divisive” message, since its members have been critical of Sommers and his flagrantly non-conservative approach to the state’s budgetary concerns. In a manner that is thoroughly reminiscent of Washington D.C. “Establishment” Republicans and leftists, Sommers can only find a strong voice when attempting to silence and intimidate those Republican members of the legislature who actually seek to abide by the principles the Party claims to uphold. Betrayal by Wyoming’s governor? No big deal. Demands from the Freedom Caucus that Wyoming Republicans legislate like Republicans? Now there’s a mortal threat that cannot be allowed to continue!

This pattern of betrayal has actually been going on in Wyoming for many years. But in the past, the RINO “Establishment” enjoyed the benefit of a state party apparatus that was completely in bed with it. Since that dynamic has changed, and Conservatives now dominate the Wyoming GOP (a separate entity from the State Legislature), business as usual “Republicans” have overwhelmingly exited the party, and are conducting their own nefarious politicking under the sanctimonious banner of “Frontier Republicans.”

In that manner, they claim to be the “real Republicans,” while embracing the resources, interests, and ideology of the likes of Liz Cheney and other D.C. Swamp Creatures who deem Wyoming to be at best a “stepping stone” to bigger things, and mere “flyover country” the rest of the time.

America can learn a huge lesson from the RINO chicanery that has been going on for far too long in its smallest population state. Citizens at the “grassroots” must become diligently engaged in the processes and actions of those in high office. Otherwise, such positions are extremely prone to degenerating into self-serving instruments of the special interests. The corrupt and deceitful actions of Gordon, Sommers, and other entrenched politicians are by no means confined to the State of Wyoming. If anything, they are highly reflective of similar duplicity occurring within other presumably “conservative” state party operations elsewhere.

But this cloud has a silver lining! The tide may finally be turning in Wyoming, which portends a similar shift in other Conservative states across America. The state’s legislature is on the brink of turning from RINO to “Red,” with several likely primary challenges to once entrenched career politicians next year. At that point, the legislature would begin to govern as the people want it to do, signaling a sea change in state level politics throughout the Nation.

However, a difficult, uphill battle lies ahead. It is guaranteed that the RINOs of Wyoming’s political apparatus will receive vast funding from out of state, by which they no doubt intend to conduct a lavish media campaign of deception and character assassination against aspiring Freedom Caucus members and incumbents. The Swamp has no intention of going peacefully into the night.

Yet if the people of Wyoming remain vigilant and engaged as they were last year, they may prove to be immune to such manipulations. That was their message to the “Establishment” when similar scamming was attempted in hopes of Liz Cheney holding on to Wyoming’s lone Congressional seat.

This is no time for complacency and resting on laurels. The battle between the Freedom Caucus and the Liz Cheney Republicans in Wyoming is crucial in and of itself. But it is also a microcosm of how real Conservatives and Patriots across America can reclaim our Nation from the filthy hands of the duplicitous special interests.

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Cheney’s defeat speech included a peculiar comparison. She started by talking about Abraham Lincoln’s defeats in the House and Senate before winning the White House. Was she unofficially announcing that she’s running for president in 2024?

“The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election for all,” she said. “Lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our union, and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history.”

Liz Cheney: "Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and House before he won the most important election of all." pic.twitter.com/VbTjCx4afC

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 17, 2022

Rumors have been spreading since before the primary that she’s considering a presidential run. It would be absolutely comical, of course, but let’s not forget the mentality of the Uniparty Swamp. They don’t always run candidates who can win. Sometimes, they run candidates whose sole purpose is to throw fire at the conservatives in the race so a different RINO can emerge. They did this with Chris Christie in 2016 when they tried to prop up Jeb Bush. Christie was supposed to take out Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, but they didn’t see Donald Trump coming.

Twitter’s reactions were amazing:

Liz Cheney’s political career began in 2014 when she announced a run for senate in Wyoming with a Facebook post geotagged to McLean, Virginia. It ended with her comparing herself to Abraham Lincoln after losing her congressional seat by over 35 points.

Liz Cheney's political career began in 2014 when she announced a run for senate in Wyoming with a Facebook post geotagged to McLean, Virginia.

It ended with her comparing herself to Abraham Lincoln after losing her congressional seat by over 35 points.

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 17, 2022

Few people in Washington have been as wrong and damaging on foreign policy as Liz Cheney. Congratulations to @HagemanforWY on her victory tonight. I look forward to working with an advocate for liberty as the next Congresswoman from Wyoming. Bye Liz.

Few people in Washington have been as wrong and damaging on foreign policy as Liz Cheney. Congratulations to @HagemanforWY on her victory tonight. I look forward to working with an advocate for liberty as the next Congresswoman from Wyoming. Bye Liz.

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 17, 2022

Bye bye @Liz_Cheney . On the bright side at least you won’t have to pretend to be from Wyoming anymore.

Bye bye @Liz_Cheney. On the bright side at least you won’t have to pretend to be from Wyoming anymore.
pic.twitter.com/DMcj3ua42d

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 17, 2022

“Wyoming has spoken on behalf of everyone who understands that our government is a government of, by, and for The People!” — Harriet Hageman

"Wyoming has spoken on behalf of everyone who understands that our government is a government of, by, and for The People!"
— Harriet Hageman @HagemanforWY #Elections2022 #TrumpEffect pic.twitter.com/aTLbZ2gAyC

— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) August 17, 2022

Let’s hope she does run. The damage she can do to Trump will be minimal compared to the points he’d score by having an antagonistic loser trying to follow in her father’s NeoCon footsteps.

Liz Cheney’s opponent in the GOP primary for her seat in Wyoming, Harriet Hageman, didn’t make the campaign video below. She should redo it in higher quality and release it because it’s awesome.

Harriet Hageman @HagemanforWY

Wyoming candidate challenger for Liz Cheney's congressional seat. pic.twitter.com/jWSHB81CmA

— ZZZ (@AskMeLaterOn) August 4, 2022

The Republican Establishment is rallying behind Cheney in a futile attempt to salvage the career of someone who was, until recently, one of their most powerful assets on Capitol Hill. She rose to be the third-highest ranking Republican in Congress until Trump Derangement Syndrome got the better of her. Then, her Uniparty Swamp puppet masters sacrificed her on the altar of the January 6 Commission.

Now, she’s on her way out in just 11 days.

The January 6 Committee has been leading the charge to prevent Trump from running in 2024 while the Examiner has cheered them on, going so far as to try to establish credibility for thoroughly debunked J6 witness, Cassidy Hutchinson.

Now, Cheney and her media shills are highlighting their opinion that the GOP will fall apart if Trump is nominated. From the Examiner:

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) issued a dire warning to the Republican Party if it rallies behind former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“It can’t survive if he’s our nominee,” Cheney said on ABC News’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

…

Cheney is helping lead a summer slate of hearings held by the Jan. 6 committee, which is working to tie Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Capitol riot. The congresswoman said millions of people have been “betrayed” by Trump and his claims of election fraud, which have been roundly rejected by election officials and the courts.

Cheney is in a hot battle to retain her seat with primary challengers, most notably Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman. She seems to be doubling down on attacking Trump in order to try to convince voters they were wrong about him. They overwhelmingly supported him in both 2016 and 2020 and seem poised to support his endorsed candidate in the August primary as well.