Barlow, Eric

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Eric Barlow has served in Senate District 23 as a WY Senator for Campbell County from Jan 2023 to the present.  He served House District 3 for Campbell County from 2013 to 2022.

Barlow has received a positive score for Representation and Integrity, and a negative score for Competence. Thus he has been ranked as Limited Trust.

He is up for reelection in 2026.

“There are a few things I don’t do… No PAC money. No dark money. No candidate questionnaires. No negative campaigning. No self-serving agenda. No special interest strings. No labels. No pledges.”

From https://county17.com/2022/07/14/campbell-county-candidate-questionnaire-eric-barlow-for-state-senator-for-district-23/

Overall, Barlow scores a (+) for Representation.

Attendance

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

Public Conduct

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

Sponsorship History

In 2023 Barlow was the primary sponsor of 5 bills, and co-sponsored 46 bills and 4 joint resolutions.  Favored sponsorship topics appear to be education, elections.  For more details, see his legislator webpage.

Committee Assignments

2023-Management Audit Committee – Chairman
2023-Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions
2023-Senate Labor, Health & Social Services
2023-Mental Health & Vulnerable Adult Task Force
2023-Select Committee on Tribal Relations
2023-Subcommittee on Legislator Ethics Complaint Procedure
2023-CSG West – Energy & Environment
2023-CSG West – Executive Committee

Barlow scored a (–) for Constitutional Competence with an average of 50.9% on the constitutional issues listed below.  Constitutional issue categories that have a “N/A” grade, refer to specific bills that Barlow did not have the opportunity to vote on.

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 Barlow, he receives a (+) for Integrity.

Employment/Income

According to Barlow’s legislative webpage, his occupation is Rancher, Veterinarian.  According to Barlow’s 2023 State Elected Officials Financial Disclosure available at Wyofile, he reports:

• Partner – Gourmet Lamb of Wyoming, LLC
• Partner – Eric S. Barlow DVM, PC
• Partner – Holding Water Resources, LLC
• Income from “Any security or interest earnings” and from “Real estate, leases, royalties”

Memberships/Civic Organizations

United States Marine Corps

Campaign Contributions

The table below shows all campaign contributions reported by the WY Secretary of State for Eric Barlow; Eric Stephen Barlow.

From 2012 to 2022 Barlow received 157 contributions that total approximately $74,935.77.  Of the 157 donations, 3 were from PACs & Campaign Committees.  The total amount received from PACS was approximately $5.12; the total amount received from Campaign Committees was approximately $5,066.65.

Noteworthy contributions are:

• $2,000 total from Mark Gordon and Jennie Gordon (2012)
• $500 total from True family dynasty member

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.)

2013 WY Supreme Court Decision on:
BARLOW RANCH, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Appellant, (Defendant), v. GREENCORE PIPELINE COMPANY LLC, Appellee (Plaintiff).