I am seriously considering writing my rep, along with Hans Hunt, whom I have met several times and is sympathetic to this cause.

I want to set up something like an electoral college for the state to prevent Cheyenne from screwing us. We all know Cheyenne is pretty much Colorado, as well as our Capital, and we aren't too many years away from them ruining the rest of the state. Laramie, Jackson, and Casper are part of the equation too, and I think it would behoove us to get something like this through before this wonderful state is ruined by Cheyenne.

Thoughts?

Agreed.

It may be too late, but if we don't start something now, our chances of getting something like this passed is very slim in the future.

I don't believe so.

I got out of the army in CO and hired out with UPRR in 2004, and lived in and around Cheyenne until may of 2007.  I still visit friends frequently, most of which have lived in Cheyenne most of their lives, if not their entire lives.  It was changing for the worse even when I moved away, and my friends admit that it is becoming little Colorado.

The local politicians dream of being little FOCO, and would do everything, short of getting on their knees, to be part of the front range.  The Greenies move here to commute, and not pay state taxes, while tripping over themselves to make Cheyenne a reasonable facsimile of Ft. Collins.

Even if you are correct that we have a majority of conservative Greenies moving into Cheyenne, which I highly suspect, it doesn't matter because most of them have families.  Even the most conservative gun nut can have a wife that doesn't like the smell of rancher Joe's feed lot that was there 50 years before her HOA subdivision. The wife is bored (nothing to do in Wyoming, wish we were back in the Front Range), joins the PTA, has coffee with other bored Greenie moms.  They decide we need more culture, and petitions the school board to de-fund 4-H, to include shooting sports (ick!!! guns!!!) to fund more inclusive and diverse school activities.  She will always fight to the end to make laws to protect her fiefdom and nest.

Most people hate "Wyoming".  They want urban amenities, they want stuff to do, restaurants, night life, and a little sprinkling of pretty views and outdoors once or twice a year.  Look at any Cheyenne FB page.  People begging for new restaurants, stores, artisan cake shops, microbreweries, etc.  Women lamenting how they wish they could turn Cheyenne into FOCO.  Guess what comes with all of that? People and comfort.  Once you make a place more comfortable and attractive to urbanites, more and more people come. The more infrastructure, restaurants, and luxuries you have, the more population it will bring. Population always leads to more laws, less freedom, and eventually Socialism. The reason Wyoming is so free is because we have very few people here.

Don't believe me?  Take a look at any story from Tribune-Eagle, or Star Tribune (which just recently moved to Cheyenne and bacame another Tribune-Eagle) and read the posts.  Typically, 60% of the comments are straight up Socialists  bitching about how Wyoming is so backwards, the energy industry, diversifying industry, bringing in new business, killing coal, shooting wolves and bears are bad.  It is to the point of absurdity.  We see it in letters to the editor every week. Some transplant to Cheyenne or Casper making a stink about something they don't like about Wyoming's freedoms. Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie, and to a lesser extent, the pretty little mountain towns are going to ruin this state.

What I am proposing is that those of us that see the writing on the wall do something about it.  Talk to friends, write our legislators, try to get something like a state electoral college set up so these large towns cannot screw the rest of the state (much like Denver, Atlanta, DFW/Houston/Austin, SoCal, SLC, etc, etc, etc).  I bet @Sparks556  @Guns762 and others will be on board.

Well, we have to try.

Anyone worth their salt hates politics, but we are stuck with it, unfortunately.

I'm becoming worried also. Not so much about Casper (yet) but definitely Cheyenne with all the CO transplants. I've seen it before with California - They trash it and then flee, then go right back to turning the place they moved to into the place they moved from. Locusts, man.

Casper is getting there to. I live near there, have many friends there, and spend quite a bit of time there..... It's changing as well.

We need to get this rolling before it's too late.

Maybe we could have a get together and come up with ideas.

Maybe, but I am willing to bet money on Cheyenne turning way blue and screwing the rest of the state like Denver does to CO.  The reason won't be any Sportsman group, it'll just be plain old leftists moving into Cheyenne like locusts.

They already have the highest population, and are the capital.

It's not a far stretch to say it would be easy to start creeping into state politics for newcomers to Cheyenne.

This is why we have to keep up on bills being voted on and how our elected officials are representing us. Complacency kills.

No doubt.

It is very tiresome to keep vigilant watch for crap coming down the pipe.

I would rather spend my time living life with my family.