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TexasTowelie

(112,065 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 09:16 AM Jul 2020

The radical right has completed its takeover of the Wyoming GOP

The Wyoming Republican Party’s recent convention in Gillette demonstrated that the radical right’s takeover of the GOP is now complete.

It wasn’t just that officials ramrodded through wholesale bylaw changes that punish county organizations and candidates who don’t follow the orders of the party’s central committee.

Or even that the party’s last-minute Senate-race straw poll — taken after many delegates walked out in disgust following the bylaws fiasco — selected a little-known, far-right candidate over a staunchly conservative, four-term Wyoming congresswoman.

For most of the four decades I’ve covered Wyoming politics, either incident would have been unthinkable at a Republican convention.


Read more: https://www.wyofile.com/the-radical-right-has-completed-its-takeover-of-the-wyo-gop/
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The radical right has completed its takeover of the Wyoming GOP (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2020 OP
Interesting. Laelth Jul 2020 #1

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Interesting.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 10:03 AM
Jul 2020

I don’t mind watching a Republican, circular, firing squad in action. That, it appears, is what Wyoming Republicans are attempting to assemble.

-Laelth

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