Sublette County Denies Resort Expansion For Wall Street Billionaire Joe Ricketts

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Sublette County Denies Resort Expansion For Wall Street Billionaire Joe Ricketts

Published on March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 in Economic development/News/Tourism

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By Jake Nichols, Cowboy State Daily
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The sleepy agricultural enclave of Bondurant, along with the Upper Hoback Valley and the rest of Sublette County in west-central Wyoming, is situated close enough to Jackson Hole to feel the heat shimmering off its blistering real estate market.

By intention, the loose-knit community has shunned the brand of boujee that has Jackson Hole overrun with tourists the Travel & Tourism Board Joint Powers Board in Teton County has altered its message in an attempt to attract fewer bodies and larger billfolds.

They call it sustainable visitation.

Bondurant buckaroos want nothing to do with it.


Left: Joe Ricketts (AP File Photo). Right: A map showing property owned by Joe Ricketts south of Bondurant, Wyoming.

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[2naSalit]

1. Ha!

So they want to curb the monster they've fed for decades.

Second response:

So they are finally getting it, perhaps, maybe?

[Achilleaze]

2. G.o.P. Joe begat G.o.P. Pete

They hated Trump. Then Trump won. They kissed Trump's corruption-encrusted rump. They flipped and they flopped, like Republicans do.

Then they went on behaving like Plutocrap Republicans, imagining that they are lords and masters of the proles.