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New State Auditor Kristi Racines Embraces The Transparency Revolution: American Transparency and Equality State Taxpayers Association Receive 6 years of State Checkbook Expenditures
Applaud Auditor Racines for opening the books. Wyoming’s new State Auditor Kristi Racines has produced six-years of state checkbook expenditures to OpenTheBooks.com and Equality State Taxpayers Association. The production included all public state spending transactions, along with the requested vendor file. This production fully satisfied the open records request that was the subject of litigation… Continue Reading
Forbes Article Cautions Against Instituting Corporate Income Tax in Wyoming
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2019/01/26/2019-the-year-that-republicans-in-wyoming-started-acting-like-democrats-in-washington/#77a5f2d234d6 Continue Reading
Equality State Taxpayers Association files lawsuit for public records
The Equality State Taxpayers Association an American Transparency (openthebooks.com) filed suit in Laramie County District Court to compel State Auditor Cloud to turn over electronic documents in her possession and per her statutory duty. Read the lawsuit here. American.Transparency.Equality.State.Taxpayers.Complaint Continue Reading
Battle for Wyoming State Checkbook Makes Forbes Magazine
OpenTheBooks.com founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski contributed an opinion article to Forbes Magazine this month on his efforts to obtain financial records from the Wyoming State Auditor. Continue Reading
Wyoming Supreme Court Opinion on Capitol Renovation
The Wyoming Supreme Court has rendered an opinion on the lawsuit filed by Treasurer Gordon concerning the Capitol Square project. The court ruled that the legislation concerning the project was unconstitutional on its face and ordered the District Court to proceed according to the Supreme Court ruling. The order was a strongly worded order to… Continue Reading
House Bill 135 (2006) Opened Door to No-Bid Contracts
House Bill 135, signed into law in March 2006, opened the door to the kind of no-bid contracts that led to the huge cost overruns on the Capitol construction project. View the full text of the final (engrossed) bill and the voting record below: Continue Reading
No-Bid Contracts Contribute to Budget Shortfall
Suit has been filed in Wyoming’s First Judicial District calling for the judicial examination of contracting practices with respect to the Capitol Square Project, but also, the general contracting practices by the State of Wyoming. The suit claims that the Wyoming Legislature has shown a pervasive disregard of the competitive bidding requirements of Article 3, Section 31… Continue Reading
ESTA Opposes House Bill 162, Joint Resolution 007
The Equality State Taxpayers Association opposes the passage of Wyoming House Bill 162 and House Resolution 007, both of which propose increases in property taxes for Wyoming taxpayers. ESTA opposes tax increases and instead advocates for reductions in unnecessary or excess spending, including adherence to a competitive bid process that would reduce costs for government projects.… Continue Reading
