False Claim Wyo Lawmakers Tried Removing Trump From Ballot

Have you received a mailer claiming that members of the Wyoming Legislature considered removing former President Donald Trump from the ballot?

Those Political mailers were sent by the Wyo Freedom PAC to Laramie, Fremont, and Sweetwater county voters.

The postcard-size mailers claim that various members of the Wyoming legislative body voted to remove Trump from the Wyoming ballot.

But no such bill was offered up during the last legislative session.

Wyo Freedom PAC Chairman Kari Drost was called by WyoFile to explain the mailers.

“I don’t have them in front of me, but I am pretty sure that there is a reference to all of the statements made on the bottom of the postcard,” Drost said. “There’s a specific vote that’s referenced, so you could look that up.” (WyoFile).

The assertion by the group is that a budget bill footnote intended to bar the secretary of state’s office from using state funds to engage in out-of-state lawsuits.

Bear told WyoFile that the vote over the footnote was “effectively” a vote for or against Trump being on the ballot.

“They knew what they were doing when they did it,” Bear said.

Zwonitzer called the mailers “beyond the pale.”

Secretary of State Chuck Gray had joined other Secretaries of State in filing an amicus brief to overturn the Colorado court’s decision to remove Trump from that state’s ballot claiming Trump incited insurrection at the nation's capital on January 6, 2021.

The Joint Appropriations Committee added this footnote to the budget.

“No funds appropriated under this section shall be expended without specific legislative authorization for the secretary of state or the office of the secretary of state to initiate any litigation or participate in any litigation initiated in a court outside of Wyoming in which the state, the secretary of state or the office of the secretary of state is not a named party,”

That footnote had nothing to do with removing Trump from the Wyoming Ballot.

Wyo Freedom PAC is claiming that it does relate in a roundabout way.