John Gudger for Wyo HD 59

04/21/2026

Good advice and Truth!

Weekend Update - Luke Reiner: EV Dreams to HD8

Luke Reiner was the WYDOT Director. Now he's running for the Wyoming House in District 8. While at WYDOT, Reiner championed a plan to build EV charging stations every 50 miles of Wyoming's Interstate Highways. He was told no. A fawning puff piece in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle fails to bring up how Reiner spent months trying to convince Wyoming Citizens to go along with the EV push.
https://cowboystatepolitics.podbean.com/e/weekend-update-luke-reiner-ev-dreams-to-hd8-418/

04/21/2026

This is what elites, some “establishment” Wyomingites, and RINOs are encouraging.

04/21/2026

Gail doesn’t realize that she is encouraging dishonesty when it comes to voting.

Columnist Gail Symons writes: “Unless you live in Teton or Albany County, or you hold strong Democratic convictions, registering Republican and voting in…

04/15/2026

Truth

03/10/2026

This is an accurate illustration of why the Wyoming Business Council should be eliminated from Wyoming State tax funding, or significantly reduced in State funding of tax payer dollars.

03/10/2026

This is a good illustration of why the Wyoming Business Council should be eliminated or significantly reduced from State funding.

01/23/2026

Wyoming friends, I need to make a correction to my post last night as I incorrectly connected the BWXT to funding of the Wyoming Business Council. While the Mayor and I still disagree on the legitamacy of the Wyoming Business Council, it was wrong for me to connect BWXT to the Wyoming Business Council. Below is Leah Juarez’s explanation.

City of Mills Mayor explanation:

John Gudger BWXT is administered by the Wyoming Energy Authority not the Wyoming Business Council. Defunding the WBC has zero impact on this grant.
The Wyoming Legislature established the Large Project Energy Matching Funds to be
used for purposes of providing matching funds for private or federal funding for research,
demonstration, pilot projects or commercial deployment projects related to Wyoming
energy needs, including, but not limited to, carbon capture utilization and storage,
carbon dioxide transportation, industrial carbon capture, coal refinery, and hydrogen
production, transportation, storage, hydrogen hub development, biomass, biochar,
hydropower, lithium, processing and separation, battery storage or wind and solar
energy. The Wyoming Legislature delegated the management of the LPEMF to the Wyoming
Energy Authority (WEA). The WEA is the designated entity for administration, including
receipt and processing of funding requests, the review and recommendation process,
negotiating and executing funding agreements, and project monitoring, processing and
reporting.

Is there a projection of how long it will take for the 100-million-dollar grant to deliver
ROI?
o Gillette and the state of Wyoming will start getting a return on investment as
soon as construction begins. The facility is estimated to cost $266,500,000, if
BWXT uses local contractors for 40% of the project equals $106M in local
economic activity. BWXT is committed to use as many local contractors for
as much of the project as possible in the construction of the facility.
When operational, the facility will hire 200 NEW employees with an average
annual wage over $100,000. With $20M in new payrolls, the community is
going to see increased economic activity and economic growth. BWXT will pay real property and personal property taxes on the facility and equipment
that isn’t eligible for exemption under Wyoming law.

The match for the grant was 407,000,000 by BWXT.

01/23/2026

Many of you may heard “controversy” with Wyoming Media and even local politicians about the defunding and dismantling of the Wyoming Business Council (WBC). Below is why you should support the elimination of WBC.

1. Government should not have any role in interfering with the free market enterprise. It is NOT governments primary role. Tax incentives for businesses? Yes! Excessive give away grants of tax payer money? No.

2. Getting government involved in interfering with the free market leads to corruption, including political corruption, political back room deals and excessive tax welfare for selected businesses that fits political agendas. WBC and Governor Gordon have already exemplified this.

Here are some examples:
1. A recent discovery by legislator has found millions of tax grant money to selected businesses that went bankrupt. Wyoming citizens lost jobs and tax grant money in millions was lost.
2. A recent “business investment” of multi-million tax dollars was given to equate to 58 million per job. This was found by objective information provided to Legislation Appropriations.
3. CEO of WBC has a salary of $228,000/year at tax payer expense. That is excessive for an quasi-government organization that should not exist in the first place. They have a total of 41 employees all of which are subsidized by tax dollars.
4. CEO of WBC testified to Legislative Appropriations that the free market and capitalism doesn’t exist and requires government intervention. That is called socialism. He and WBC call shots at their own view of “business investment” decisions. That hurts the free market and capitalism no matter how you “slice it”.

Because of above, the WBC is no friend of Wyoming small family businesses, Wyoming property owners and freedom.

All of this information is true and can be substantiated by local State Representatives and others.

01/02/2026

Did you know that Wyoming State Government funds an organization called the Wyoming Business Council (WBC) to the amount of approximately $54 million dollars every 2 years?

Wyoming Legislatures must have the resolve to end funding of the WBC. No government at any level should have a role in funding private businesses or interfere with the free market. Obviously, Dorrell is clueless and believes capitalism and the free market doesn’t exist.

Speaking of Dorrell, State Government and you the tax-payer, are funding Dorrell’s salary in the amount of $288,000 a year or $24,000 per month. Do you believe this should be a necessary government expense?

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09/05/2025

This is why you should not believe Casper City Council complaints on property tax 25% reductions the Wyoming State Legislators recently passed.

The Casper City Council will tell you that cutting your property taxes will devastate their budget and put essential services at risk. They are so broke that they had to reduce staff to maintain some public parks. This is what they do have taxpayer money for:

$4M loan for new ski lift at Hogadon after voters voted it down. This is on top of yearly subsidies averaging $300K.

$1M in annual subsidies to the Ford Center

$3M for expansion of the ice rink.

$2.25M for local nonprofits.

$920K for new vehicles

$6M pedestrian bridge

The people can have tax cuts.

09/04/2025

Only thing I disagree with RFK is our country is NOT a “democracy”. Our country is a Constitutional Republic. No where in our US Constitution or US Declaration of Independence will you find the word “democracy”. Look up the difference.