WHEATLAND — Republican Dr. Taylor Haynes, of Cheyenne, visited with Wheatlanders about his run for governor at Platte Valley Bank on March 27.
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WHEATLAND — Republican Dr. Taylor Haynes, of Cheyenne, visited with Wheatlanders about his run for governor at Platte Valley Bank on March 27.
Haynes’ background is in engineering and medicine, according to his website, taylorhaynesforgovernor.com. He earned a mechanical engineering degree at Southern University in Louisiana, then a medical degree from the University of Utah. He has lived in Wyoming 34 years.
Haynes said during an interview Friday the biggest issues facing Wyoming are sort of tied together. He said the state’s economic shortfall goes back to when Wyoming first became a state and did not maintain control over its own lands.
“We can do many things to fix this,” Haynes said. “We need to go back to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Wyoming … take over those lands and capture all the wealth for the people of Wyoming.”
Haynes explained the groundwork was laid back in the 1970s for Wyoming to take over management of multiple use lands from the Bureau of Land Management. He said the movement was called the Sagebrush Rebellion, when the Title 36 statutes were approved by the Legislature and put on the state’s books.
“Federal funding is our own money they dole back to us,” Haynes said. “When you take federal money, it costs more than if the state did it with state money.”
Haynes said if he is made governor, Wyoming will take over management of mineral producing lands that are currently managed by the BLM. He said Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and other national parks would remain under federal management, but Wyoming will get all the mineral royalties.