Wyoming State Representative Response to Citizen

[Ben]

Was somewhat refreshing. A newly minted WY citizen wrote all the state reps telling them that she didn't approve of legislation to allow guns in schools and "oh, by the way, I don't like fracking either." This Representative's response was basically telling her to not let the door hit her in the ass on her way out. :)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/24/by-all-means-leave-the-amazingly-blunt-response-one-state-rep-gave-a-citizen-who-wrote-him-opposing-concealed-carry-in-schools/#

[TechMan]

Love it!!!!  I wish he was my Rep.

[mtnbkr]

The town she's from is my adopted hometown (wife is from there and my folks lived there for 17 years, I plan to retire there).

The rest of the town is not like her.  It's a smallish mountain town and fairly conservative.  I'm glad she left.

Chris

[charby]

Wyoming is high on my list of places to live in the future, has been for quite sometime. I just wish they had more water.

[Tallpine]

Wyoming is high on my list of places to live in the future, has been for quite sometime. I just wish they had more water.

The reason that states like Wyoming and Montana are relatively unpopulated and independent, is that they are too dry, too hot, too cold, too windy, etc etc etc.

The miserable climate keeps most of the riff-raff away 

[charby]

The reason that states like Wyoming and Montana are relatively unpopulated and independent, is that they are too dry, too hot, too cold, too windy, etc etc etc.

The miserable climate keeps most of the riff-raff away 

Doesn't keep them all away apparently.

[Cliffh]

That was one of our main reasons for leaving CA.  Lived in a nice little community out in the county; at least it was nice and quiet until the folks around SanFran discovered it.  They started moving in and "improving" the area.  Took them very little time to move in enough bodies to out-vote the long-timers. 

Sure wish that Rep. Hunt had been there....

[Monkeyleg]

The miserable climate keeps most of the riff-raff away

Hasn't kept out Ted Turner and Kevin Costner.

[RoadKingLarry]

Hunt 2016.

[Tallpine]

Hasn't kept out Ted Turner and Kevin Costner.

None of those people really live here.  I'm sure they check the weather forecast before they actually visit, if and when they do.

And KC was supposed to have a place in Crested Butte back when we lived in CO. 

[Ben]

Costner mostly lives in Summerland,CA. Every once in a while I see him at the harbor having a beer on one of the fishing boats "being one of the guys".

Unfortunately even though many of these people don't live full time in places like Montana and Wyoming, they can still screw things up by being a riffraff magnet. Just look at Sun Valley,ID. John Kerry has a house there that is a chateau Theresa supposedly had delivered over from Europe. You know that neither of them spend much time there, but name recognition draws plenty of liberals. If you look at a political map of Idaho, Sun Valley and Moscow (university) are about the only blue regions in the state.

[Tallpine]

Costner mostly lives in Summerland,CA. Every once in a while I see him at the harbor having a beer on one of the fishing boats "being one of the guys".

Unfortunately even though many of these people don't live full time in places like Montana and Wyoming, they can still screw things up by being a riffraff magnet. Just look at Sun Valley,ID. John Kerry has a house there that is a chateau Theresa supposedly had delivered over from Europe. You know that neither of them spend much time there, but name recognition draws plenty of liberals. If you look at a political map of Idaho, Sun Valley and Moscow (university) are about the only blue regions in the state.

Okay, whatever 

The point being that climate is one of the main reasons why Montana has only about a million people, and Colorado has over five million.

[grampster]

When my brother and I were tramping around Wyoming in the early 80's and then again in the early 90's, we ran across some fine folks as well as quite a number of transplanted Michiganders.  We Michiganders are used to weather, so Wyoming is not much of a challenge in that way.  Plus both of us were able to actually breathe through our noses...something most Michiganders can't due to our climate.

[sumpnz]

That woman is a Unitarian Universalist "pastor".  She's as brain-dead liberal as it gets.

[Blakenzy]

If I lived on a homestead or community which utilized subterranean water wells I would be wary of fracking in the local area. Hunt seems to be willfully myopic on that topic. I'll criticize him on that.

[Ben]

If I lived on a homestead or community which utilized subterranean water wells I would be wary of fracking in the local area. Hunt seems to be willfully myopic on that topic. I'll criticize him on that.

If I living in an area where fracking might affect me, whether I was there ten days or ten years before the fracking started, then I agree. If you move somewhere without doing at least minimal research though, then no.

Lots of people moved to the farming area where my parents live, selling their crappy two-bedroom $1mil homes in San Francisco for McMansions and ten acres where my folks are. Then they complained because dairy farms smell and crop dusters fly around.

[AJ Dual]

That woman is a Unitarian Universalist "pastor".  She's as brain-dead liberal as it gets.

I think their motto is: "Hey... we uh... believe in STUFF, or something. YAY!"

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Wonder what the preacher took her kin to court for in Roanoke

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[slingshot]

I spent time in Wyoming.  I liked the moutains but disliked the wide basins full of sage brush (and tics).  It is a place I love to visit, but would rather live elsewhere where it is more green.  The folks that live in Wyoming are great.

I suspect the letter writer is basically a Sierra Clubber who I have a great disdain for overall.  I used to be a member until I began to understand their political agenda which I dissagreed with (essentially preserve nature and the hell with everything else). Green Peace is the same.  I generally dislike the environmental organizations that seem to have a political agenda outside their major focus and one that is opposed to most natural resource development that "might" affect their interest area.  I generally think the Nature Conservancy is the best of the lot.

[Tallpine]

I spent time in Wyoming.  I liked the moutains but disliked the wide basins full of sage brush (and tics).  It is a place I love to visit, but would rather live elsewhere where it is more green.  The folks that live in Wyoming are great.

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It's funny ... now that I have lived in Montana for 16 years, I have come to enjoy the wide open spaces.  Now I actually get closetrophobic up in the western mountains.

I still like to see mountains, though.  Around here is pretty hilly.

[freakazoid]

I think western Montana would be nice. I had lived in the Black Hills area in South Dakota for about 8 months and loved it.

[Tallpine]

I think western Montana would be nice. I had lived in the Black Hills area in South Dakota for about 8 months and loved it.

Yeah, and expensive too. 

Western Montana is where all the movie stars and liberals move to. 

There are a lot of places in central/eastern Montana that are similar to the Black Hills.

[RoadKingLarry]

I spent time in Wyoming.  I liked the moutains but disliked the wide basins full of sage brush (and tics).  It is a place I love to visit, but would rather live elsewhere where it is more green.  The folks that live in Wyoming are great.

I suspect the letter writer is basically a Sierra Clubber who I have a great disdain for overall.  I used to be a member until I began to understand their political agenda which I dissagreed with (essentially preserve nature and the hell with everything else). Green Peace is the same.  I generally dislike the environmental organizations that seem to have a political agenda outside their major focus and one that is opposed to most natural resource development that "might" affect their interest area.  I generally think the Nature Conservancy is the best of the lot.

But Greenpeace can be so much fun. If you happen to be the nozzle man on a high pressure fire hose and they cross "the line" in their Zodiacs .