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A few words about Mike Sullivan and a different time in Wyoming

It was September 1990, and then-Wyoming Gov. Mike Sullivan’s Irish temper was hot.

It was at the Lander One Shot Antelope Hunt and I was driving then-U. S Sen. Al Simpson back to the hotel headquarters. Sullivan spotted us and came charging out.

Simpson took one look and said: “Oh darn (well, words sort of like that), this is not going to be pretty.”

As he rolled down the window, Sullivan let Simpson have his full fury about some project Sullivan had been working on for years and that he felt Simpson had not helped him enough with that project back in DC.

My recollection is that Simps...

 

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