Caution: While there is no vulgar language on this page, there is a frank discussion of vulgar language, and even worse actions.

An E-mail, Hypocrisy, and a fight worth fighting

The Saga of an E-mail 

Last summer, I wrote an e-mail to a state senator, Tara Nethercott, concerning her underhanded and deceitful practices as a committee chairwoman which killed a bill that would have ended the “15 days to flatten the curve”- already having exceeded a full year. In that e-mail I used some language that upset Senator Nethercott to the point that she had to share it with all of her friends. This resulted in a laundry list of suggested consequences for my actions. Tara sent her friends out to demand my resignation as a precinct committeeman (the least powerful elected position in the state). The Speaker of the House and President of the Senate suggested, no, demanded, a law which would allow them to remove me from that position (such a bill was introduced the following session, but since it allowed for the removal of ANY elected official, they declined to bring it to the floor, hypocrites). They demanded I be fired from my job, and a few said I should be imprisoned. It was also suggested that I be censured by the party. The matter came before the Park County Central Committee, and while the proceedings were in executive session, I was not censured. Since they weren’t successful there, they tried at the state level, where it backfired on them. Not only was I not censured, but the Vice-President of the Senate and a former Speaker of the House were referred back to their county committees for their foul language and disrespect to voters. This outcome pleased me, but was quite unexpected. But there is quite a bit more to the story.

Many people have railed about the language I used, and it has been rumored that I have a miniscule vocabulary. Even after I drop a $3 word into a sentence, they rarely realize that I CHOSE that word specifically to refer to the individual I was e-mailing. And not one of my detractors has asked why I used it. Just to be absolutely clear, it is not a word that I use in my daily life. I have 3 ex-wives, and not once have I directed that word at any of them, so why would I call Senator Nethercott that?

The why involves a story that isn’t mine, and I will abbreviate it because it isn’t mine- I know the story, but the person who it belongs to deserves their privacy, so I will only hit the high points.

A few years ago, there was a young lady serving in the Wyoming Air National Guard as an Senior Airman. She had an excellent record of service, and had no discipline issues. Then she got a new job assignment, and a new commander. Her commander approached her and told her that her career depended on providing sexual favors at his whims. She refused, and began carrying a recording device. She recorded a series of more and more demanding conversations with her commander where he told her repeatedly that she would face consequences if she didn’t yield to his demands for sexual favors- not only for him, but anybody he deemed worthy of them. This Senior Airman was aware that many other women had complained of this treatment and had seen their careers ended for complaining, so she diligently gathered evidence, including a dozen audio recordings and a few videos. She continually refused to comply, and when she received her first downgraded performance review, she knew it was time for action. Action, in this case, meant finding a civilian attorney. And boy, did she find one. The attorney who offered to take her case wasn’t just a top lawyer, head of the law firm, but a state senator. The Senator, and lawyer, collected all of the Airman’s evidence, and assured her that a complaint would be filed soon, and that the behavior would be stopped. 

A few months went by, and the airman was being retaliated against, receiving worse and worse performance reviews and increasing hostility on the job. She called her lawyer and asked what was taking so long, and was told that things were being filed, and please bring some money in. This continued for over a year, until the Airman was forced to leave the Wyoming Air National Guard, and the complaint still hadn’t been filed. So she dug around a little.

What she found was horrifying and infuriating: Her lawyer, a married woman, had been having an affair with an Air National Guard officer, a married man. Her pillow talk included handing over all of the airman’s evidence so that it could be covered up. When the airman found this, she confronted her lawyer- Senator Tara Nethercott- who responded that there was no evidence. 

Then threats began. A National Guardsman who was also a law enforcement officer visited the airman’s disabled mother to “Make sure that she was ok, since her daughter was saying some dangerous things.” The now former airman was also threatened with arrest several times. And Tara Nethercott actively participated in these disgusting and vile actions. 

Do you want to know what it takes for me to use that particular word? Well, participate in sexual misconduct, and help cover it up, and then destroy the young lady’s life, and I guarantee that you will get that word thrown around.