ALEXANDRIA, VA (May 31, 2023) — CPAC Foundation’s analysis reveals the Wyoming Senate and House voted less conservatively during the 2022 session compared to the previous session. Republicans in the House, for instance, voted with the conservative position an average of 59% of the time, compared to 72% last year.

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Wyoming has one of the largest supermajority Republican legislatures in the Country, but fails to deliver on conservative policies,” said CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp. “When it came to issues like closing the primaries to prevent Democrats from picking Republican nominees, banning racist indoctrination in the classroom, and providing parents the ability to pick the best educational opportunities for their kids, Wyoming Republicans failed to deliver.”

Several Wyoming state legislators are recognized by CPAC for their conservative voting records based on the just-released analysis from CPAC Foundation’s Center for Legislative Accountability.

The following members of the Wyoming State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Excellence for voting with the conservative position at least 90% of the time:

Senate:

Bo Biteman (94%)

John Kolb (94%)

Lynn Hutchings (93%)

House:

Chuck Gray (100%)

Rachel Rodriguez-Williams (100%)

Jeremy Haroldson (94%)

Mark Jennings (94%)

Pepper Ottman (94%)

Clarence Styvar (94%)

The following members of the Wyoming State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Achievement for voting with the conservative position at least 80% of the time:

Senate:

Anthony Bouchard (88%)

Troy McKeown (88%)

Dan Dockstader (88%)

Tim French (88%)

Tom James (88%)

Tim Salazar (88%)

Cheri Steinmetz (88%)

House:

John Bear (88%)

Christopher Knapp (88%)

Chip Neiman (88%)

John Winter (88%)

Bill Fortner (82%)

Jim Blackburn (82%)

Mark Baker (81%)

Among the votes scored in CPAC's 2022 Ratings of Wyoming were bills that addressed life, protections against men competing in women’s sports, Second Amendment rights, school curriculum transparency, election integrity, tax cuts, and school choice.

In 2022, Republicans held a supermajority in the Wyoming State Legislature. This gave them the opportunity to pass key legislation expanding school choice, protecting women’s sports, and defending life. These issues, coupled with conservative policies such as lowering taxes, protecting the Second Amendment, and upholding the American family, created the basis by which CPAC Foundation rated Wyoming legislators.

The Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), an initiative of the CPAC Foundation, is the premier organization for holding lawmakers accountable. The CLA produces the longest-running conservative congressional scorecard and our state program is the only one in the nation that scores all 8,000 lawmakers in the 50 states across every policy area.

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