Photograph shows conservative activist handing slip to Darin McCann and Marlene Brady holding a similar paper
Controversy has engulfed Wyoming’s state legislature after a conservative activist was photographed handing checks to Republican lawmakers on the state house floor, in an incident that has highlighted intra-conservative divisions and the role of money in the Cowboy state’s politics.
The political storm started on 9 February, when Karlee Provenza, a Democratic lawmaker, took a photo showing Rebecca Bextel, a conservative activist and committeewoman for the Teton county Republican party, handing a check to Darin McCann, a Republican representative, on the legislative floor. Marlene Brady, another Republican representative, stands in the photo’s background, a similar piece of paper pinched between her fingers.
“You have a person from the richest county in the country coming down to Cheyenne to hand out checks on the house floor,” Provenza said. “I have never seen something so egregious.”
When was the vote they were being reimbursed for? Believe it or not, that matters. If they got a check before a vote that’s a bribe, and a big no-no. But if they got it after the fact, that’s a gratuity, and A-OK, according to the Supreme Court
I mean, at least we don’t have to pretend the Supreme Court is legitimate or non-political. Not sure how we’re gonna get an amendment to shorten and standardize their terms and make a people’s assembly is responsible for appointment, but we at least we don’t have to pretend they’re legitimate.
There’s always a next vote. That must have slipped the minds of 6/9 of the court.
Eh more like that decision was the supreme court’s version of a valet standing around and saying “ahem” before taking your car away
i mean afterwards seems worse. you could still not vote their way if they do before.