Posted on 05/25/2021 1:06:06 PM PDT by conservative98
After making international news late last week by announcing he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, embattled congressional candidate Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, continues to lash out at a colleague who has been critical of him.
Bouchard is now claiming that Senate Majority Leader Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, wants him removed from committee assignments in the Wyoming Senate as a result of the revelation.
“The RINO establishment led by Sen. Ogden Driskill wants to strip me of committees,” Bouchard wrote on Facebook. “Just like Pelosi did to #MTG (referring to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia). BRING IT!!”
If there is such a plan, that’s news to Driskill, who said he was surprised by the charge.
“This is just another series of lies and misinformation from Anthony Bouchard,” Driskill told Cowboy State Daily.
“I know of no movement, no discussions, or any conversations about stripping Sen. Bouchard from his committees,” Driskill said. “I have not been contacted by anyone about this.”
Driskill said Bouchard should file an official complaint with the president of the state Senate and ask for a formal investigation if he believes there is any impropriety.
“I openly challenge him to pursue it,” Driskill said. “Unlike Bouchard, I’m transparent.”
The argument spilled over onto Bouchard’s Facebook page where Driskill called the senator a “liar” after addressing him as “Romeo” — a nickname popular political columnist Rod Miller coined last week.
“PURE LIE!!!! There has been no discussion with leadership – or other Senators about ANYTHING to do with Anthony Bouchard. Another pure fabrication and lie from Romeo,” Driskill wrote.
“Oops, the media put it on the record. Sorry Oggie. Will this be another comment that you pull down, like you did yesterday?” Bouchard asked without specifying a media outlet or what was put on the record.
“You are a liar— I have had no conservation with leadership or otherwise concerning you,” Driskill said.
State Senate President Dan Dockstader told the Casper Star-Tribune that he was “looking into” whether there would be any legislative repercussions stemming from Bouchard’s revelation.
Bouchard currently sits on four committees: the Management Audit Committee, the Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committee, the Senate Labor, health and Social Services Committee and the Select Committee on Legislative Facilities, Technology and Processes.
Bouchard has been a member of the Wyoming Senate since 2017.
Bouchard and Driskill have been engaged in a battle of words since late last week, when Driskill was interviewed by U.K. media outlet The Daily Mail in London about Bouchard’s announcement.
“The lack of transparency he has shown is terrible,” Driskill told the outlet. “I’m not sure he should be running for Congress.”
In his 14-minute Facebook video response, Bouchard called Driskill “scum” and attacked him for talking with the Daily Mail about something that happened nearly 40 years ago.
“Ogden Driskill could have stayed out of this fight,” he said.
Driskill told Cowboy State Daily that he spoke publicly about the senator because Bouchard’s revelation was so egregious.
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MSM will have an field day if this guy runs against Cheney.
He’s probably a great guy but he’s got more targets for the left to exploit then a Target with a sale on targets !
I think Bouchard should shut up and bow out. He committed statutory rape when he was 18 and should have known better. That is or should be no excuse for statutory limitation on this. None. And considering that his own kid has his own history with sex crimes, it reflects on daddy. A family culture.
Bouchard is a loose cannon, he should get out of the race.
There’s plenty of time for the good folks of WY to find and vet another Conservative candidate.
There’s plenty of time for the good folks of WY to find and vet another Conservative candidate.
They’ll find a reason not to like them, too. They don’t call the GOP the Surrender Party for nothing. And it’s not because of who we elect.
If he was a Democrat they’d say, “You rascal, you”, wink, wink, a la Bill Clinton.
If only he had forced his girlfriend to have an abortion instead of marrying her he could have been a democrat hero.
Of course they will, but there's a qualitative difference between, say, getting a DUI at 18, or calling BLM a marxist organization (which is true, but the left and RINOs hate to hear it) and something that to most Americans sounds like statutory rape.
A Conservative can survive t he first, thrive on the second, but will face real headwinds, even amongst Conservatives on the latter.
Full disclosure, my own grandmother married at the age of 14. It was a different time, but even in rural Florida it was a bit creepy.
Who wound up taking care of the off-spring of the Bouchard union?
Tony Bouchard, now 36, is presently behind bars at Bob Wiley Detention Facility in Tulare County, California, for alleged sex crimes, including sodomy against a 51-year-old woman. After his mother died by suicide at the age of 20, Tony was brought up by his father.
The fact that 14-year-olds are stupid is no excuse for 18-year-olds to take advantage of them.
Yeah yeah, I know. The Leftists would love to REMOVE age of consent laws, but they are there for a reason.
Agree.
Probably a good man.
But he is not the man who can beat Cheney.
Actually, it sounds like he's not well liked in the Wyoming Senate and these public outbursts from him are not helping.
Clearly not the right person to take on the Cheney machine.
I am now so cynical and distrusting that I say follow the money. I bet a bunch of GOPe, including Cheney, are bankrolling his effort. That way if she somehow doesn't beat her then they know he will get pounded in the General Election.
The corrupt anti-american elitists are willing to completely destroy the USA if they don't get to rule it.
Dear Sarah Palin,
Please consider moving to Wyoming. Run for the House. Defeat Liz Cheney.
This guy Bouchard has much baggage.
But YOU would be at home in Wyoming. It’s your kind of people.
This Bootchie is one arrogant and shameless mofo.
Who knows.
He cannot beat Chaney.
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