Couple of pieces on governor's race
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Sep 29, 2006 Posted by Bill Luckett
There have been a couple news items relating to the governor's race in the past few days, so I thought I'd mention them here. The newest one comes from yesterday regarding the candidates' positions on abortion. The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle published this story, which is about the same as the AP's story here (from the Casper Star-Tribune). Ray Hunkins, understandably overcome with emotion at the birth of twin granddaughters, decided he wanted to make a statement about his pro-life position, but as the stories point out, he refused to say anything about what that would mean to his governorship. So really, what was the point? By contrast, Gov. Freudenthal pointed out the obvious fact that a candidate's stance on the issue is irrelevant unless voters know what that candidate might do with it from the standpoint of governing. Gov. Dave added that Wyoming's current laws "are a fair compromise on strongly-held beliefs in the state," and he advocates leaving them the way they are.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Joe Meyer told both gubernatorial campaigns that he needs more specifics on their credit-card spending for campaign finance reports, and both campaigns said they would comply with that request. So we'll learn a little bit more about both of their spending practices. It's worth mentioning that Freudenthal's campaign has less than $4,500 in credit-card expenditures, while the Hunkins camp has more than $40,600 in credit-card spending, so it will be interesting to find out what is in there. Unfortunately for those of us who favor informed voters, Meyer gave the campaigns 90 days to comply with his request, so we won't necessarily have this information until after the Nov. 7 election.
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Re: Couple of pieces on governor's race
Oct 7, 2006 | AnnI cannot believe Ray had a press release the day his grand daughters were born. He didn't want to answer any questions but made sure the press came anyways... bizarre? Go Gov Dave! Wyoming needs four more years.