In an unexpected development, Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, dropped her bid for a U.S. Senate seat out of Wyoming. Citing “serious health issues” of unidentified family members, Liz Cheney ended her puzzling challenge to longtime incumbent and former Cheney family friend Senator Mike Enzi.
Cheney’s campaign was fraught with problems, including her recent move from Washington, D.C.; her 2012 purchase of a home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; her failure to buy the correct fishing license in a state full of sports hunters and fishermen; her falsely claiming to be a 10-year resident of Wyoming on the application for the wrong fishing license; her husband’s dual voter registration in Virginia and Wyoming (otherwise known by Tea Partiers everywhere as the scourge of voter fraud); and her disavowal of the propriety of her own sister Mary Cheney’s marriage. Polls showed Liz Cheney trailing her opponent.
In a poorly worded statement, Liz Cheney threatened to continue to be a public presence:
Though this campaign stops today, my commitment to keep fighting with you and your families for the fundamental values that have made this nation and Wyoming great will never stop.”
Her vow to continue “fighting with you and your families” is less than reassuring. She did not specify which “fundamental values” she was going to fight “with you and your families” for.
According to the New York Times, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, whose relationship with the Cheney family had also been strained by Liz Cheney’s candidacy, expressed some relief that this quixotic senate run is over.
She said it was a mom thing ? ?that I just need to be more involved with the family.? I told her I wanted this to heal up and she said, ?We do, too.?
Edited by DH.
