Smith, Scott

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Scott Smith has served in House District 5 as a WY Representative for Goshen County from Jan 2023 to the present.  He has received a positive score for all three categories of Representation, Competence and Integrity, and therefore has been ranked as High Trust.

He is up for reelection in 2024.

“Religious freedom is the backbone of this great nation. It is the foundation our founding fathers used to create our constitution. You can count on me to defend religious freedom!” 

From https://www.facebook.com/ScottSmithWyo/

Overall, Smith Scores a (+) for Representation.

Attendance

It appears that Smith missed 0 votes in 2023 General Session.

Public Conduct

Smith appears to behave appropriately in public and to the public.

Sponsorship History

In 2023 Smith was the primary sponsor of 2 bills, and co-sponsored 25 bills, and  joint resolutions.  Favored sponsorship topics appear to be protection of the unborn, children and students; medical freedom; elections; education.  For more details, see his legislator webpage.

Committee Assignments

Smith scored a (+) for Constitutional Competence with an average of 100% on the constitutional issues listed below.

Constitutional issue categories that have a “N/A” grade, refer to specific bills that  did not have the opportunity to vote on.  It is relevant that Smith cosponsored 2023 HB0205 Ban on teaching and training critical race theory, but was not considered for introduction in the House.

For more on the bills used to analyze these scores click here.  Special hat-tip goes out to Evidence Based Wyoming for use of their statistical tool to generate the following vote scores:

Conflicts

Because we have not found any conflicts of interest for Smith, he receives a (+) for Integrity.

Employment/Income

According to Smith’s 2023 State Elected Officials Financial Disclosure available at Wyofile, he reports:

• Owner – Smith Management Solutions, LLC
• Income from “Real estate, leases, royalties”

Memberships/Civic Organizations

None found.

Campaign Contributions

The table below shows all campaign contributions reported by the WY Secretary of State for Scott Smith.

In 2022 Scott received approximately 88 contributions that total approximately $32,250.  Of the 88 donations, approximately 4 were from PACs &/or campaign committees.  The total amount received from PACs &/or campaign committees was approximately $6,300.

Click the arrows at the top of columns to sort the data by name, date, $ amount, etc.  (Data is publicly available records obtained from the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Wyoming’s Campaign Finance Information System.)