(Chris Parker, Headline USA) Festival participants in Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney’s home district weren’t happy about the RINO’s obsession with the House’s partisan Jan. 6 committee.
Harriet Hageman, a candidate running for Cheney’s seat, was in attendance, along with voters were expressed frustration with Cheney’s actions, reported The Federalist.
“We need to move on, and go do different things,” said one 25-year Cheyenne resident, Marie Lemke, when asked about Cheney’s involvement with the committee.
That involvement has meant that Cheney’s appearances have been few and far between. Even the New York Times has taken note of her absence.
“Ms. Cheney hasn’t appeared at a state Republican Party function in more than two years and hasn’t been to an in-person event for any of the party’s 23 county chapters since 2020,” the paper published in an article titled “Where’s Liz Cheney?”
Cheney later answered the Times’s question. “I’m not going to convince the crazies and I reject the crazies,” she said during an interview.
Her outlash followed the Republican National Committee’s criticism of Cheney for “participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
Cheney has worked closely with House Democrats on the Jan. 6 committee, with all of its members hand-picked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Together, they have sought prosecutions of several people with no connection to the insurrection, including former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, the first person convicted of contempt of Congress since Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy in 1974.
Meanwhile, Hageman has been busy traveling the state meeting with residents, and voters have taken note. Among them was Lemke, who said her favorite thing about Hageman is that “she’s from Wyoming.”
Another long-time resident, George Hoff, called Cheney’s work on the committee a “farce” and a “waste of taxpayer money.”
Cheney even gave up her seat on the House Natural Resources Committee to focus on the Jan. 6 efforts, despite half of her state falling under federal jurisdiction. Hageman has expressed her interest in joining the committee if elected.
Cheney has already lost the support of her state’s arm of the Republican Party when “the Wyoming GOP voted to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican.”
