I live in Laramie and have lived there all my life. I was born at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie.

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I spent 10 years in the Wyoming State Senate, serving two as Minority Leader, and was on the Education and Judiciary Committees. I'm a former librarian, attorney and financial advisor with AIG/VALIC Corebridge. I built a new library in Laramie, and as a volunteer raised funds for a new recreation center. I have 6 siblings. My mother is Phyllis Kinney and my father was a prospector searching for rare earths. I grew up in a neighborhood like most Wyomingites and love the beauty of public lands which were my playground.

I will fight for the people in Wyoming! A big challenge today is ensuring that our public lands remain ours. I plan to re-introduce HR 718 "Public Lands in Public Hands Act" which prevents unauthorized sale, disposal or transfer of BLM and forest lands.I will address affordability by putting more money in people's pockets by eliminating income tax for those earning under $100,000 and reducing FICA. I will speak up on every bill that negatively affects Wyoming and talk to Wyomingites about their concerns. AI data centers must be analyzed and regulated. I just completed an AI Data Center Lisa Kinney Fireside Chat with Cheyenne City Council member and attorney, Larry Wolfe, Engineer Dave Coffey of Laramie, Ted Hanlon, running for house in Cheyenne and Jim Vandyke, engineer. It is on YouTube and excellent. Very important issue.

ACA subsdies were cut in the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) so 11,000 people in Wyoming lost their healthcare and others saw an increase of thousands of dollars per month. 10% of Wyomingites do not have any health insurance. We must analyze and amend the BBB to reduce the pain for Wyoming We need to bring the ACA subsidies back for 3 years and work with the Senate to develop a plan for the U.S. which provides affordable health care, reduced cost of prescription drugs, and accessibility for all. A reason health care is expensive is because our insurance pool is small. We need to get a group of Western states together and form a bigger pool to reduce costs. I will work with both parties to increase our pool and decrease the cost of health care premiums for Wyoming.

I am willing to work with parties and people with whom I disaggree. That is what legislation is about. While in the Wyoming State Senate, I felt like I had 29 spouses. We would fight on one issue and moments later agree heartily with the same person on a different issue. My spouses were Democrat and Republican. We served the people of Wyoming together. Our disagreements were based on policies and principles affecting Wyomingites, not party or person. As I run today, one of my campaign team members is a Republican I served with in the legislature. When legislators talk only with their party, nothing gets done. We must be bipartisan! I hope to find 7-8 moderate Congressional reps and make a giant difference for the people of Wyoming and the U.S.

When I was a financial advisor for AIG/VALIC Corebridge, I spent 15 years working at the schools in the Reservation helping people set up IRAs, 403bs, and 529 accounts. I believe my constant interaction and communication with these teachers, administrators, cooks, bus drivers, librarians and maintenence workers have given me the opportunity to hear their needs and represent them in Congress. I am comfortable listening to them for issues and responding accordingly. A major problem, similar to throughout the state, is determining what jobs can employ and motivate high school graduates as unemployment is high. We need to reinstate the Department of Education for some services. I am pleased to work with members of the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes when I am in Congress to determine and respond to their needs.

Wyoming was the first state to have a national park and a national forest. We are in good shape in terms of ownership. If there is a need for housing around Jackson and Kemmerer, federal documents to transfer lands to the city can be completed and a move made without selling hundreds of thousands of acres and destroying habitat. Once again, the BBB has several provisions negatively affecting our Public Lands and our wildlife. We need to carefully analyze these issues and amend this bill. Also we can work in a bipartisan manner to pass the public lands act cited above. The land should stay ours and not be sold to private parties who may not even live here. I will fight for Wyoming and not let bills slip by without mentioning how Wyoming will be impacted.

The approach is wrong. With the most recent appropriation, ICE is the biggest law enforcement entity in the U.S. ICE started in 2003 after the disaster we faced in 2001. Since then, ICE has been used without incidence for 23 years. ICE agents used to have ID's, did not wear masks, did not show up in unmarked cars, and used due process. Immigrants or supporters were not killed for protesting, placed in detention camps without food or medicine, or flown to other countries and dropped off. Immigrants were not secretly detained based on color of their skin or nationality. All has changed. Congress should have met years ago and developed a plan for the people who come to the U.S. to legally start a new life, or were born here, like DACA and Dreamers.The U.S. is made of immigrants. My grandfather was an immigrant, a violinist and a member of the Chatauqua. Congress needs to write laws to include some immigrants, and exclude the dangerous ones. I will work on that goal.