[4] In February 2021, he voted in favor of a bill that would have "given students the tools to help friends with suicidal thoughts.
During the Wyoming Legislature’s session earlier this year, some lawmakers supported a resolution calling on Congress to re-open U.S. horse slaughter plants, which haven’t operated since 2007.
“The next thing that’s really hampering this whole effort (toward mustang management) is the fact that these horses cannot be slaughtered for meat,” Rep. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, said at the time.
He’s reached out to Wyoming’s Congressional delegation regarding the anti-horse slaughter bills, but hadn’t yet gotten a response.
Winter’s resolution states that best management practices for wild horses would include allowing for equine slaughter and processing for shipment to accommodating markets inside and outside the United States.https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2023/HJ0003 Winter is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.