TORRINGTON — The chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party called a Natrona County GOP delegate to the front of the state party’s leadership meeting here Saturday to explain the party’s refusal to pay more than $30,000 in dues it owes the state party.

By the end of the biennium, the Natrona County Republican Party will have reached more than $50,000 in arrears, its chair Rob Hendry told Cowboy State Daily during a later phone interview.

Natrona County precinct committee people voted 76-24 in early September to continue a roughly six-year pattern of not paying dues to the Wyoming GOP.

Wyoming Republican Party Chair Bryan Miller asked for an explanation of the vote during the Saturday meeting, which two Natrona County party delegates attended.

“Would you mind coming up,” began Miller, “an

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