Feb 14, 2026
Information on WY Legislator’s membership of CSG West – Energy & the Grid Committee is not being reported on their official WY State Legislature (WSL) bio pages.
The official WSL website is notorious for leaving WY residents in the dark on what their WY elected representatives are doing outside of the state on a regional level. Additionally CSG meeting minutes are never publicized to WY citizens.
Thus:
- WY Citizens seldom know their representatives serve on regional bodies.
- WY Citizens have no knowledge of what was decided at regional meetings their elected representatives attended.
The following list is the current WSL CSG West – Energy & the Grid Committee Members (we have no idea what the CSG generated numbers indicate):
| Committee Leadership: Sen. Dan Dockstader (R-WY-016) | Sen. Stephan Pappas (R-WY-007) |
| Sen. Cale Case (R-WY-025) | Rep. J.R. Riggins (R-WY-059) |
| Sen. John Kolb (R-WY-012) | Rep. Mike Schmid (R-WY-020) |
| Sen. Tara Nethercott (R-WY-004) |
WY Legislators are simply assigned to these out-of-state regional organizations and most do not realize the following:
The Council of State Governments (CSG) is a quasi-governmental organization that has been regionalizing the actions, duties and power of elected offices, in all states, and in all three branches of state government since the 1930s.
Regionalization is antithetical to federalism, and to the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (see video below.)
When organizations such as CSG or NCSL (National Conference of State Legislatures) bring the same elected officials together from several states (such as state legislators or state treasurers), and sometimes other countries, to change policy or vote on specific regional issues, those elected officials are being asked to expand their reach and power beyond state and district borders where they were elected, and far beyond the local people who elected them.
According to the CSG Roster of the CSG West – Energy & the Grid Committee there are 78 members. Only seven of those members are from Wyoming.
Question: What happens when a majority of CSG Energy & the Grid Committee members vote for significant changes that affect Wyoming?
Answer: Wyoming citizens will experience significant change brought about by people they never elected.
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