WYSFW Legislator's conflict of interest

[Ben Lamb]

http://billingsgazette.com/news/sta...cle_6187c1cb-3639-506a-a0ca-0d3f1789837a.html

Kit Jenning won WYSFW's legislator of the year award a couple of years ago. Now he's lobbying for the oil and gas industry in D.C. while trying to introduce legislation that he would personally benefit from.

 

[onpoint]

what's yer point??

 

[Ben Lamb]

what's yer point??

Kit Jennings answer to declining sage grouse populations: stocking

Kit Jennings contribution to elk management: give elk more hay (they're not fed hay, by the way) on feedgrounds and the NER.

Kit Jennings on brucellosis: it's the wolves spreading it.

http://trib.com/news/opinion/editor...cle_509a7670-9649-55b6-be73-ebb895120085.html

Well respected in the business world of Wyoming: http://trib.com/news/local/sen-jenn...cle_ca575be1-1286-59ec-bc98-985b2dc62ff8.html

Hell,with those credentials, he'd be a shoe-in for WYGFD Director

 

[onpoint]

so yer sayin your point is that another wondrous legislator is a "hero".....again, what's yer point

 

[onpoint]

Maybe he's a hero for some for the same reason some like NASCAR

 

[Ben Lamb]

I just find it interesting that an oil and gas lobbyist who is also a legislator (I would imagine that's an inherent conflict of interest) got the award for trying to farm sage grouse rather than work on the habitat issues involved.

 

[theat]

Looks like he fits right in with that group

 

[Jwill]

A crooked politician, you've got to be $hitting me...

 

[JoseCuervo]

I just find it interesting that an oil and gas lobbyist who is also a legislator (I would imagine that's an inherent conflict of interest) got the award for trying to farm sage grouse rather than work on the habitat issues involved.

But the black guy in the White House might take your guns in 3 years if re-elected.

 

[Ben Lamb]

In light of the STOCK act, which was supposed to stop inside trading by congress and congressional staff, while making political intelligence operatives register as lobbyists, it's funny to see Jennings in this light.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72670.html

I mean, what could a state senator from one of the largest oil and gas producing states who works in the industry, and now lobbies for that industry in DC have to gain by his inside knowledge of future regulatory environments?

Yeah - legislator of the year.