As the election rolls around, new and returning candidates are running to earn a spot representing Wyoming in Congress.
The republican candidate running for Wyoming’s U.S. Senate is Senator John Barrasso. With several years in the Senate, Barrasso was appointed to the Senate in June 2007, following the death of Craig Thomas and won a special election in 2008 to fill the remaining four years of Thomas’ term. He was re-elected to a full six-year term in 2012 with over 75% of the vote.
Currently, the Capser, WY native is the fourth-ranking member in the Senate Republican leadership as Chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Barrasso serves on committees that pertain to Wyoming’s economy, energy interests, public lands, national parks and trade and is the chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Residing in Wilson, WY, Gary Trauner is representing the Democrat side of the U.S. Senate race. Trauner is an active participant in his community, currently serving as the Executive Director of the Jackson Hole Youth Lacrosse Club and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Aspens Pines Water & Sewer District. However, Trauner’s experience mostly comes from being an organizational and financial entrepreneur.
Some of Trauner’s promises include: to fight for Veteran’s respect and health care but ensure that armed conflict is a last resort, making sure American’s have access to basic, quality health care and protecting the Second Amendment rights while balancing the right to personal safety of all citizens.
“LGBTQ, we don’t discriminate, we shouldn’t discriminate in this country, end of story,” Trauner said during the homecoming Pig Roast in regards to the LGBTQ community.
The U.S. House of Representatives republican candidate, Liz Cheney was first elected in 2016 on a platform of pursuing conservative solutions to help create jobs, cut taxes and regulation, expand America’s energy, mining and ag industries and restore the strength and power of America’s standing in the world.
The Wilson, WY resident, Cheney has kept her campaign promises to work with President Trump to reduce the size of government and roll back harmful regulations that hurt Wyoming’s economy. She currently serves on the House Armed Services Committee, Natural Resources Committee and Rules Committee. Prior to her election to Congress, Cheney served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East.
Greg Hunter, the democratic candidate running for the House seat, states he is running because the people of Wyoming deserve better representation and will ensure Wyoming voices are acknowledged and addressed in U.S. Congress. Hunter is currently residing in Laramie.
Hunter’s priorities include: opposing the President’s immigration policies, access to healthcare, energy innovation, protecting land from federal, state or local government overreach, pro-choice, agriculture, campaign finance reform in Congress, legalizing marijuana, well-regulated Second Amendment and supporting the troops.
House Constitution Party candidate, Daniel Cylde Cummings, was born and raised in Salt Lake City, UT. Cummings has served in the House of Delegates of three different state medical associations and has served a term on the Board of Trustees of one of the three state medical associates. Cummings is also very active in his church.
Cummings believes there is no higher authority than the Constitution of the U.S. except for the Christian scriptures and revelations from God, will never vote to increase the legal national debt limit, favors the immediate defunding of the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, Commerce, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy and Homeland Security, believes in traditional marriage and English should be the national language, along with many other beliefs and priorities.
The elected candidates will be the ones working closely with President Trump in Washington, D.C. to make laws that influence U.S. and Wyoming citizen’s daily lives.
