Letter to the Editor: Wyoming GOP having its own Salem Witch Trials

Dear editor:
“To our Republican leaders: Get off your high horse. To claim that you are a better Republican than another because you consider yourself as such is the Salem Witch Trials all over again.”
After this year’s state Republican convention, ongoing in Cheyenne, and reading reports of the happenings at the convention, it reaffirms my belief that our party is on a slippery slope that will lead our party to an undesirable place.
I’m concerned with the attempt of creating an “Affiliation Committee” whose sole purpose would be to decide if certain party members, elected Republican officials and officers, claiming to be Republicans are actually good Republicans.
If the findings proved that they were not, their party membership could be revoked for up to 10 years. Although this proposed amendment failed, it took up much of the time at this convention and had a strong effort behind it.