Cheyenne, WY — The Wyoming State Senator running against Liz Cheney admitted to impregnating a 14-year-old girl at age 18.
Senator Anthony Bouchard (R-WY) admitted to the skeleton in his closet in a Facebook live video after he found out an opposition research firm was looking into the matter. He called it a Romeo and Juliet story, though he failed to mention the very significant age gap between them.
While nothing illegal took place, most voters would consider this situation sketchy, and it only gets weirder from here.
Bouchard admitted that the whole situation turned into a bitter divorce and that the woman later committed suicide. He also said that he was somewhat estranged from the child he had with his late ex-wife. It’s a sad situation, but this is politics.
Bouchard claimed he is leading the race, which might have been true until this story broke.
In the video, Bouchard said, “I’ve heard reports over a week ago calling family members, even offering to compensate them for anything they would give up on me. That’s dirty. That also tells you I’m in the lead, because they wouldn’t be doing this to me if I wasn’t in the lead. They wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t the front-runner.”
That last statement is just not true.
The establishment goons backing Cheney would have released this information regardless of whether or not Bouchard was polling ahead of the Congresswoman. That is what you do to ensure your candidate wins a bitterly contested primary.
The fact of the matter is, it likely will help Cheney win.
Conservative Wyoming Representative Chuck Gray is also running in the GOP primary to unseat Cheney. It is possible that this story breaking about Bouchard gives Cheney the opportunity to divide the primary vote enough ways to pull off an unlikely victory.
A spokesperson for Cheney claimed Cheney’s campaign had nothing to do with releasing the concerning story about Bouchard. True or not, we find it unlikely Cheney, or someone close to the campaign, was not involved.
After the release of this information, neither Cheney nor Bouchard are in a strong position going into the GOP primary.
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You are biased because you failed to mention he married her in the inflammatory headline. I haven’t been able to block yahoo news but due to there baliased reporting I would of someone tells me how.
This event happened well over 30 years ago. Bouchard raised the child as best he could under the circumstances. Amazing what fellow candidates will do to each other, it appears nothing is to vile in a effort to destroy and discredit anyone who may pull a few votes away from them.
One thing I will say for Bouchard, he stood by his girl which is more than Liz Cheney did for Trump !
After how Liz voted during the impeachment hearing and what she said against President Trump, he’ll make for a much better Congressperson than Liz Cheney. Also, much older Democrats engage in sex with much younger girls than did Mr Bouchard all the time and generally brag about it. So let’s trade in Liz and be done with it.