CASPER – Wyoming Sen. Anthony Bouchard says he is staying in the U.S. House GOP race following his disclosure that he impregnated a 14-year-old when he was 18, striking a
Written by Associated Press on May 25, 2021
“That’d be great,” state Sen. Anthony Bouchard said Monday of any possibility of censure by the Legislature. “Do it. Bring it on.”
Bouchard then refused to answer questions about the girl he married after she bore his son and who killed herself at age 20 in 1990, the year after they divorced.
“I’m not talking anymore about that, about this story,” he told the Casper Star-Tribune at a news conference in Gillette he’d scheduled hours earlier.
Bouchard is among at least eight Republicans running against Rep. Liz Cheney. He has been a state senator from Cheyenne since 2017 and previously was a gun rights activist.
Liz Cheney refuses to link voting restriction laws to Donald Trump s baseless election lies
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Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney was ousted from her leadership position in the House GOP caucus for refusing to peddle former President Donald Trump’s election lies. However, in her recent interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan, Cheney appeared to sidestep linking the recent Republican-led voting restriction efforts to Trump’s election lies.
Over the weekend, Swan questioned Cheney on the link between the Republican-led efforts in the country to place restrictive voter laws to the former president’s baseless claims of election or voter fraud. Many advocates have already condemned the efforts, as it would disproportionately affect communities of color, withholding them of their rights to vote. Cheney refused to directly say if there is a link between the two or not.