Biteman, Kinskey on JCC ‘Setup to Fail’

State Senators Bo Biteman and Dave Kinskey were guests on the Public Pulse Open Lines show last Friday to discuss this year’s legislative session that wrapped up earlier this month.

The original Senate Joint Conference Committee, appointed by Senate President Ogden Driskill, was pulled after a few days of negotiations with their House counterparts and replaced with new committee members.

Biteman and Kinskey were asked if it was a setup destined to fail, as it appeared to many to be the case, including Rock Springs SenatorJohn Kolb.

Biteman said there was no negotiating with the House JCC.

Kinskey gave details on what happened with the committee.

Kinskey added that the original senators on that committee were sincere in trying to compromise on the budget, but for them to be set up as they were to try to make them look bad and then have Senate leadership complain to the media that things are “mean and divisive” in the Senate and it was the committee’s fault was not done in good faith and contrary to the spirit of what should be happening in government.

Kinskey and Bitemen agreed that the same things happening in Washington, D.C. are happening in Cheyenne, and it needs to stop.