Young visits Valley to talk SF 104

The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that Senate File 104 (SF 104) was unconstitutional on Jan. 28. The Court’s ruling insured that Wyoming State Superintendent, Cindy Hill, would be placed back in charge of the Department of Education.

Perhaps the only other person as thrilled about this decision as Cindy Hill is Constitution Party politician Jennifer Young.

Young, who started a petition to stop SF 104 early last year, spoke to a group of Encampment citizens on the same day of the Supreme Court’s ruling. She said she found it fitting that she was in Encampment.

“I find it so appropriate that I find myself here in Encampment on this particular day because it was here with you guys that the referendum really took off,” Young said.

Young praised the the decision of the Wyoming Supreme Court claiming that their decision was “wise.”

“Thanks to the justices for a wise and truly just decision and I can see them makes some decisions that are leading up to this one that are echoing the same,” Young said. “We are so blessed to have a wise Supreme Court.”

Though she says that the ruling itself was a victory for the people, Young said that people responsible for the legislation need to be brought to justice.

“The action that needs to be put behind the decision now, by we, the people, is to hold the individuals accountable: those individuals who brought us this bad legislation, the governor that signed it into law -- they need to be held accountable for their violation to their oath of office.”

Young, who intends to run for Secretary of State for the State of Wyoming in the next elections, said that the legislators who filed SF 104 disregarded the Constitution

“They took an oath, when they took that oath of office, to uphold the constitution of the United States of America and they have violated that.”

Young said that halting at the courts decision is not enough. She said the momentum from this ruling needs to continue.

“What we do to stop this ‘train’ in our own state is to take the action that is legal, logical and necessary at this point in holding these people accountable.”