Congressional Candidate Lisa Kinney: Public Lands Are Our Livelihood

Wyoming Democratic congressional candidate Lisa Kinney is making keeping public lands public and bipartisan cooperation cornerstone issues in her run for Wyoming's only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In her recent campaign announcement, Kinney wrote "There are multiple bills to take Wyoming public lands away from us, including several from Harriet Hageman. Again, this is not why we vote for our Representatives and Senators—we need to place individuals in Congress who believe in the sanctity of our property. Wyomingites are independent and need to make our own decisions about our land—not just follow what the federal government demands of us.” 

In an interview which ran on Saturday during the ''Weekend In Wyoming'" program on am 650, KGAB. Kinney picked up the theme of keeping public lands public again. '"Public lands are our livelihood, our responsibility.'' Kinney said. She went on to say ''We like to go out and hunt and fish and camp and explore and it's tourism and it's not just for the rich people."

You can hear the entire KGAB interview with Lisa Kinney in the audio file attached to this article [see below]. Kinney accused current Rep. Harriet Hageman of sponsoring five bills in 2025 to sell public lands. While Hageman is running for the U.S. Senate rather than reelection to the House, Kinney says her views are typical of the Republicans running for congress.

"I'm A Democrat-Republican or Republican Democrat"

Kinney served in the Wyoming Senate as a Democrat between 1984 and 1994, She says she was registered as a Republican for 8 years, but says she went back to being a Democrat ''Because basically what's going on in the United States and with the Freedom Caucus, you just wonder where some of these people are coming from, why they are making these kinds of rules, and I thought maybe being a Democrat would be a better decision at this time." She adds "I'm a problem solver, I think creatively." But she goes on to say "I'm Democrat-Republican or a Republican-Democrat." She adds that in Wyoming ''We're all the same. We're all conservative."

You can heat the entire KGAB interview below.