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Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney will run against Wyoming's senior U.S. senator in next year's Republican primary, her campaign said Tuesday.
Liz Cheney, 46, is the elder of Dick Cheney's two daughters. Her announcement is a political challenge unlike anything Wyoming has seen for years, maybe decades.
Republicans in the state rarely challenge incumbents of their own party in national office. All three members of the state's congressional delegation and all statewide elected officials are Republican.
Liz Cheney is married and has five children. She hasn't been a longtime Wyoming resident but she and her husband bought a home in the posh northwest Wyoming community of Jackson Hole last year.
"I am running because I know, as a mother and a patriot, we can no longer afford simply to go along to get along. We can't continue business as usual in Washington," Cheney said in a statement.
Meanwhile, apparently aware that Cheney's announcement was imminent, Sen. Mike Enzi announced his bid for a fourth term. He made the announcement more than six months earlier in the political cycle than he has in the past.
"Working behind the scenes — this is what I have been doing since I was elected and this is what needs to be done," he said by email through his spokesman.
The race promises to be hard-fought. Enzi has had few serious Democratic opponents — much less Republican ones — and remains well-liked as an affable former shoe salesman and mayor of the coal-mining city of Gillette.
Enzi takes pride in keeping a lower profile and remaining much less partisan than most of his colleagues. He often refers to his "80-20" rule — that opposing parties usually can agree on 80 percent of the details of any given issue — as a model for Republicans and Democrats to work together.
Enzi handily won re-election in 2008 with more than 75 percent of the vote.....snip~
Liz Cheney to seek Wyo. Senate seat held by Repub.
Associated Press – 17 mins ago <<<<< More here.
Great :roll: .....another Neo Con to take up a run. Now Cheney's Oldest daughter enters the fray.
ok what did Enzi do to potentially upset conservatives and make them go through a bloody primary.
i thought Dick cheney and Senator Enzi were political allies and friends?
I have to say that I've never heard of Senator Mike Enzi on any matter - period. Apparently, he's been taking up space and simply breathing in the Senate for about 18 years now and wants to go for a shot at the quarter-century club. But why?
I wish Liz Cheney well - she's clearly a very intelligent, articulate, confident woman and one that would likely make a great contribution to the Senate - Senator Enzi won't be missed since no one even knows he's there.
Not every senator is a media-seeking firebrand.
I guess Enzi just prefers working behind the scene in committee and senate matters rather then make headlines.
-------------------------ok what did Enzi do to potentially upset conservatives and make them go through a bloody primary.
i thought Dick cheney and Senator Enzi were political allies and friends?
Not every senator is a media-seeking firebrand.
I guess Enzi just prefers working behind the scene in committee and senate matters rather then make headlines.
Liberals love it when Republicans are quiet, and mushy.....
since liberals have no one who can challenge Enzi in the first place, this just means the republicans get to switch who represents them.
i never said i liked Enzi, i was just arguing that senators don't have to be media-hounds or glory seekers. i am just surprised what Enzi did to anger conservatives..
Liberals love it when Republicans are quiet, and mushy.....
---------------------Fair enough - but he's had 18 years to do that already. Don't you think that in 18 years a Senator should have some significant legislation he's championed or worked on that has garnered support in his own party or with the entire Senate? If he wants to be a bureaucrat, let him apply for a behind the scenes desk job.
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One would think that, but hey, my state has had Barbara Boxer as a senator for 20 years.
I'm beginning to think a Senator's job is mostly ceremonial with a dash of pork.
--------------She's definitely an "I'm so scared I wet my pants" conservative .
I have to say that I've never heard of Senator Mike Enzi on any matter - period. Apparently, he's been taking up space and simply breathing in the Senate for about 18 years now and wants to go for a shot at the quarter-century club. But why?
I wish Liz Cheney well - she's clearly a very intelligent, articulate, confident woman and one that would likely make a great contribution to the Senate - Senator Enzi won't be missed since no one even knows he's there.
So because you have not heard of him he has not done anything? Do you have any idea how ****ing stupid that is? And how do you, a Canadian, feel qualified to judge whether his constituents will miss him? You know, the people who voted him in by a 3 to 1 margin last election?
So because you have not heard of him he has not done anything? Do you have any idea how ****ing stupid that is? And how do you, a Canadian, feel qualified to judge whether his constituents will miss him? You know, the people who voted him in by a 3 to 1 margin last election?
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