Disclaimer: The Branding Iron has only reached out to electoral candidates whose positions have a direct impact or tie to University of Wyoming students and staff. Questions: Albany County School District #1: A: What is your opinion on gender inclusion & equality in schools? B: Should the School Board be more involved in curriculum development…
Midterm elections are here, and your vote matters. 2018 saw the largest voter turnout in decades, and since then more than 6% of Americans have turned 18 and now have the right to vote. However, many don’t know where to start. One resource new student voters can use is Rock the Vote, an organization born…
To promote voter awareness for local elections, ASUW provided students with an opportunity to meet candidates through a ‘meet and greet’ event on Oct. 17, 2022. The event was more casual than traditional ‘meet and greets’ that candidates or the public had attended before. Shelley Leonard, when commenting on the importance of attending and hosting…
Ballot Propositions: Ballot Proposition 1: “Shall the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Albany, State of Wyoming be authorized to continue to impose a general purpose excise tax of 1% upon retail sales of tangible personal property, admissions and services made within the county, for general revenue purposes for the period of January…
Taelor Nielson, a junior in International Studies, and her running mate CeeJay Berg, a junior in Accounting and Economics, are running for the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW) President and Vice President. Their campaign platform is to largely reform current ASUW practices to make real change in rebuilding lost connections from the…
Students Hunter Swilling and Colter Anderson take on a platform of lowering student costs in their run for the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW) President and Vice President. Swilling, a Molecular and Physiology Student, and his running mate and Economics student, Anderson, are teaming up to run for ASUW President and Vice…
Far-right ideology characterized by distrust in predominant political figures and skepticism of government was fueled last Wednesday when President Trump egged on his supporters to mob the Capital building. The House found President Trump’s actions so grave it warranted an impeachment just a few days before he leaves office for inciting violence against the United…
According to the office of the County Clerk of Albany County there are no cases of voter fraud in Wyoming even with the polling changes this year. “What we see on the news doesn’t really happen in Wyoming. We keep a pretty clean record of when people are deceased or registered as felons. We’re active…
ACSD #1 Area A Results In Tuesday’s election, three seats in the Albany County School District (ASCD) #1 Trustee A were won by Mark Brittner, Jamin Johnson, and Emily Stanton. “I feel great about it, to have a seat at the table. Having an impact on education, it’s a very rewarding feeling to have the…
Wyoming House of Representatives–District 13 Democratic representative Cathy Connolly won reelection according to the unofficial general election results with 3,004 votes, out of 4,175 total. Connolly is both a professor at the University of Wyoming and Minority leader in the Wyoming House of Representatives. She was first elected for office in 2009, where Connolly has…
Republican candidate, Daniel Furphy, wins state senate seat over the democratic candidate, Jackie Grimes, for Wyoming. “It was a fun campaign, mostly because the great people who worked with me and I’m amazed at the support I received from my constituents. They helped me a lot, both financially and the work they put in. I…
On Tuesday night, the Associated Press announced that republican candidate, Cynthia Lummis beat democratic candidate Merav Ben-David for U.S. Senate. “Tonight, the words ‘thank you’ are not enough… I am humbled, honored and full of gratitude for the trust you have put in me,” Lummis said in a press release. According to the statement, she…
