Republicans for Trauner Congress, Wyoming

Republicans have been supporting our candidates this year as noted here and here. And we have a strong candidate for Congress in Wyoming. See here and here. So it’s not surprising to read in the Cody Enterprise that

…a new grassroots group aimed at defeating incumbent Rep. Barbara Cubin, “Republicans for Gary Trauner,” has been launched in Cody. “It's time for her to be replaced,” life-long Republican Steve Simonton says. “She has failed Wyoming from a leadership standpoint and has no role among the GOP leadership.” Simonton, a longtime Cody lawyer who says he was prompted by Cubin's relatively weak showing in the primary election to organize the new group, said Cubin has allowed the position to lose power since vice president Dick Cheney held it.

Simonton said Cubin has voted to reduce the powers of the states, giving more to federal government, was silent during the right-to-die case of Terry Schiavo and hasn't been fiscally responsible. “She's fallen out of touch with Wyoming and the principles this state holds dear,” Simonton said. “She's had a hand in the largest deficit spending ever in this country. “She's voted to increase the federal government's power and hasn't protected public lands,” he added.

Simonton said he's also disappointed in her role during the debates about the war in Iraq.
“She's been a rubber stamp for the administration. We have no strategy for pulling out,” he said. “Right now if we pull out, the place will fall apart and into civil war. Simonton said he also was disappointed in her for votes about bonuses for combat veterans while giving Congress a pay raise at the same time. “Here at home we support the troops and they need that bonus,” he said. “But she gave herself a raise without giving soldiers one.”

He began to research Democrat Gary Trauner of Wilson and found him to be a candidate more to his liking. “I see him as a young, energetic leader who has some solid ideas,” Simonton said. “He has the kind of eagerness and intelligence to make a good representative. “Voting for him is better than following the GOP's same plan year after year,” he added. “We need to make a change.”

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