How Politicians Operate 101/ Pine Bluffs Case Study:

First they will threaten you. “I am going to sue you” or ” I will make your name mud”

 Second they will try to reason with you. “We’re on your side, but…”

Third they will use others that are close to the issue or personally known by you to threaten, reason, or discredit you.

In this case they used third parties and attempted to discredit.

Examples from this case as posted on OpenCarry.org forum:

“rationally and politely and from what I hear Mr. Bouchard was far from that”

“Mr. Bouchard was way out of line”

“He verbally accosted the mayor, and council members, and proved himself through his actions to be no friend of gun owners anywhere”

“Mr Bouchard (unfortunately) did not act in a professional manner”

“verbally assaulting the town council and Mayor of the town”

We should hold these “third party persons” harmless and not fault them, they have little to no experience in these matters. Over time maybe they to will learn not to succumb to political fluff.

Remember our mission here is to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution and the Wyoming Constitution, you know the same thing that public officials are sworn-in to do. P.S. even police officers.

The bottom line here is from the beginning they Pushed-back and hoped it would go away.

I was told that I would be arrested and fined $750 for open-carry in Pine Bluffs.

When I informed the police that “Their law could be easily challenged” they passed me off to the town attorney, and from him during more than one conversation I experienced Push-back.

Important fact: The Town Attorney does not work on his own - he answers directly to the mayor and town council.

Almost three weeks after I personally became involved in this matter “anyone would be arrested and fined $750 for open-carry in Pine Bluffs” was published in the local newspaper. This my dear friends is “more Push-back”

It was at this point that WyGO took a stronger position, maybe next time they will re-think their Push-back strategy especially with an election right around the corner, May 5th, 2009 to be exact. see: http://pinebluffswy.org/elections

After the open-session part of the town council meeting on 3-2-09, Officer Yeomans held the opinion that one still could not open-carry and he stated this directly to me while I was speaking with the mayor (Yeomans wasn’t present during the open-session) it was then that he was informed by Mayor Anderson about the fact that state law preempts local law, Officer Yeomans replied “I had no idea”.

This means that all the way up until about 8pm on 3-2-09 (after the town council open-session) it was very possible that one would have been arrested for open-carry!

Why wouldn’t Officer Yeomans have been informed of this sooner?, you can draw your own conclusions.

Now if anyone thinks that they would overcome this “Push-back” by simply asking, well you already know the line about “water-front property”.

For the record when encountering “Push-back” WyGO will always give back the same and a little extra for good measure.

The real truth is the way that the Pine Bluffs officials handled this matter is an embarrassment in itself and they should work on fixing the problem instead of making others out to be the boogie-man.

In other words the Pine Bluffs officials should of handled this matter swiftly from the beginning and the “unwillingness” that was displayed only re-affirms the position that WyGO took.