Chairman
Mrs. Winney….
Vickie Winney
Vice Chairman
Brian Rossignol
Treasurer
Martin Harris
Secretary
Candy Luhrsen
State Committeeman
I am not a Wyoming native. I was raised in north-central Idaho. After high school I joined the U.S. Army where I made an oath to God to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” The enemies of our Constitution aren’t foreign, they’re domestic. That oath didn’t expire when I was honorably discharged after four years of service. I was stationed in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and Darmstadt, Germany. I was in Germany during the cold war. I’ve been to what Winston Churchill called the “iron curtain.” I looked over into what we used to call East Germany and Czechoslovakia. I saw the wall, the guard towers and the Russian soldiers on the other side. I understood that to enforce socialism and collectivism the state must build a wall to keep the slaves from escaping.
I got to Wyoming as quickly as I could. When I was 23 years old, I arrived in Wyoming. It was 1981. I lived in Kemmerer and Green River for a short time and in Rock Springs for about nine years. In 1993 my wife (Shelly) our three children and I moved to Douglas where we’ve been ever since. Our kids are now spread out from coast to coast. We have two grandsons. Shelly and I have been married for 43 years.
I’ve had two careers. I worked in mining for 12 years and in the BNSF Railroad Signal Department for 22 years. I am now retired from the railroad.
Most of my life I called myself a “conservative.” I now believe that the word conservative means nothing. Any establishment, big government, big spending, authoritarian, neoconservative, warmongering, uniparty Republican politician can call himself a conservative. Today the label that I like to put on myself is “Constitutionalist/right libertarian. The word Constitutionalist will be harder to corrupt.
I believe that the U.S. Constitution is the greatest document ever written by man. I believe that it was divinely inspired. I believe that it is a very dangerous idea to hold a convention to change the Constitution. The Constitution needs to be obeyed not changed. I support the platform of the Wyoming Republican Party as it is now written because it lines up with the Constitution. There’s nothing in the platform that I disagree with. I believe that our elected servants need to be held accountable to the oath that they made to God to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” I believe that it is the duty of all Americans to hold their elected servants accountable. I believe that it is especially the duty of Republican Party Central Committees to hold their elected servants accountable.
In my opinion the most abused part of the Constitution is the 10th amendment. In the Constitution there’s a list of enumerated powers. The 10th amendment says that any powers that aren’t specifically enumerated in the Constitution are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Jim Creaser
Jim Creaser
