Posted on 05/25/2021 10:20:47 AM PDT by conservative98
Sen. Anthony Bouchard says he is staying in the U.S. House race following the disclosure that he impregnated a 14-year-old when he was 18, striking a defiant tone at the possibility that he could face repercussions in the Wyoming Legislature.
“They’re gonna censure me for (what I did) 37 years ago? That’d be great,” he said. “Do it. Bring it on.”
Bouchard has faced a wave of criticism after he acknowledged late Thursday that he had impregnated the girl, whom he married a year later. But speaking to the Star-Tribune after a Monday legislative meeting in Gillette, Bouchard scoffed at the idea that he might drop out.
“I’m standing strong. I’m not going anywhere,” Bouchard told supporters in a Saturday Facebook live video.
Bouchard disclosed the pregnancy after learning he was going to be the subject of an investigative story, which the U.K’s Daily Mail then published Friday.
On Monday, Bouchard declined to answer follow up questions about whether he was still in high school at the time the two met.
“I’m not talking anymore about that, about this story,” he said.
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On Friday, the U.K.’s Daily Mail published the story that apparently prompted Bouchard to make the Facebook Live video. It cited “an unnamed Republican operative” who is “in the Donald Trump faction of the party.”
“We want this to be known about him because we need to clean the field,” the operative is quoted as saying. “Five other candidates in the primary are going to split the vote in a small place like Wyoming, and Cheney is going to waltz in again.”
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On Friday, the U.K.’s Daily Mail published the story that apparently prompted Bouchard to make the Facebook Live video. It cited “an unnamed Republican operative” who is “in the Donald Trump faction of the party.”
“We want this to be known about him because we need to clean the field,” the operative is quoted as saying. “Five other candidates in the primary are going to split the vote in a small place like Wyoming, and Cheney is going to waltz in again.”
Eight candidates have already announced they would challenge Cheney in the 2022 GOP primary. Most pundits suspect a large field benefits Cheney because the challengers could split the vote.
The Daily Mail story featured an interview with state Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower. Bouchard used a significant part of his latest Facebook Live to criticize his colleague in the Senate.
“He’s one of the guys that supports the deep state,” Bouchard said in the video. “He doesn’t really work for you. Yeah, Ogden, I’m talking about you, buddy. Yeah, I don’t care if you’re gonna push at me. If you push at me, I’m going to fight back.”
Driskill did not hesitate to respond.
“If you’re an honest candidate, you deal with the facts in an honest fashion. And his entire video (Saturday night), the one he did to try to reply to the news source that found out what actually went on, was actually not owning up to what happened. They’re all excuses,” Driskill told the Star-Tribune.
“This isn’t a Romeo and Juliet story,” he continued. “This is an absolute true tragedy.”
No one cares about him or his scandal.
The only thing that matters is erasing Cheney with some squeaky clean alternative to scandal. Someone needs to tell this guy that if he continues this obvious attempt to fracture the anti Cheney vote, he will not be allowed to keep his legislature seat, either.
It’s unclear whether Bouchard will face repercussions in the Wyoming Legislature, but one member of legislative leadership left open the possibility.
“At this point we’re looking into it,” Dan Dockstader, president of the Wyoming Senate, said in an email Monday. The Afton Republican declined to provide further details.
If I was Liz, I’d pick this guy as my opponent. Something to think about.
Of course he should remain in the race.
Not to mention The Daily Mail is rubbish most of the time.
• 1984
• Him: 18
• Her: 14
• Events took place in Florida, not Wyoming (so you can’t blame it on a rural state)
• He marries the girl after the baby is born
• The marriage lasts 3 years
• She commits suicide not long after the divorce
Yea, he needs to go.
If he does get the nomination it will be the Alabama Roy Moore senate race all over again. The Democrat candidate might actually win the seat.
The Republicans don’t need conservatives (who have little chance of winning the general election) splitting the vote in the primaries and handing the nomination to Liz Cheney.
Truth is, Trump needs to step in and endorse a candidate. And do it soon enough to prevent any other candidate from getting up a head of steam, so it will be a one-on-one, Trump-candidate vs Cheney in the primary.
This creep comes ready with ammunition to be used against him, and the Cheney machine will definitely use it. It does not serve the conservative cause to have this loser running against Cheney, because Cheney will almost certainly beat him. Wyoming needs to find someone without the creep baggage.
How do Wyoming Freepers view this candidate?
“The only thing that matters is erasing Cheney with some squeaky clean alternative to scandal”
Bears repeating.
If he can’t see this, he isn’t a candidate worth supporting.
Bingo.
This primary is going to be a circus, and Cheney will win easily. Then what?
How do the voters in his current district feel about all of this? And was this story about his first marriage general knowledge when he was first elected to the state legislature? He might get Cheneyed out of his current role, let alone not get the nomination at the state level.
If they were still married and had a raised a couple of normal kids it MIGHT be a different story. There has to be a better potential public servant available.
Bouchard’s son is also a criminal: What’s more, the child they had, Tony Bouchard, 36, is currently awaiting trial in California on five sex-related felony charges involving a 51-year-old woman
He can easily refer to Ellison of MN, who is still in orifice after numerous allegations of sex harassment!
So a Senior boffed a Freshman?
I don’t think that has ever happened before. /sarc
Despite her age, it probably wasn’t statutory rape - most states have a “Romeo and Juliette” law to prevent that sort of thing.
I guess the real question would be how he behaved towards the girl afterwards? Did he offer to marry her? Did he contribute towards the upkeep of the child?
It says he was a high school drop with a job and started dating a 14 year old, in your words a freshman. The “Remo” clause doesn’t apply because the girl was 14. You have to be at 16-17 for your Romeo clause to kick in.
*dropout
From the excerpt, it states that he married the girl a year later.
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