{"id":1577976,"date":"2022-07-29T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577976"},"modified":"2022-07-29T09:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:36:52","slug":"a-farce-heres-what-wyoming-voters-really-think-of-liz-cheney-and-her-sham-j6-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-farce-heres-what-wyoming-voters-really-think-of-liz-cheney-and-her-sham-j6-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Farce\u2019: Here\u2019s What Wyoming Voters Really Think Of Liz Cheney And Her Sham J6 Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-farce-heres-what-wyoming-voters-really-think-of-liz-cheney-and-her-sham-j6-committee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CHEYENNE, Wyo. \u2014 Two days after the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/liz-cheney-braces-primary-loss-focus-shifts-2024-87297107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote off<\/a> Rep. Liz Cheney as \u201cnowhere\u201d to be found at Cheyenne\u2019s midsummer cowboy festival, the lone congresswoman from Wyoming flipped pancakes for a brief appearance before returning to work on the Jan. 6 Committee.  <\/p>\n<p>The pancake breakfast held on every other day of the festivities has been a staple of Cheyenne\u2019s Frontier Days celebration since 1986 when the Kiwanis Club adopted the tradition after an historic flood the year prior. For more than three decades after, volunteers with the Kiwanis Club often joined by members of the Boy Scouts and the Air Force have served thousands of pancakes within a short span of two hours. With its roots in the Cold War-era preparatory drills in the case of a sudden disaster disrupting food supply, the annual spectacle leaves little time for politicians who participate to mingle with their voters. For Cheney, the breakfast offered the perfect opportunity to show face without spending time with constituents left angry by the rarity of their sole congresswoman\u2019s home state presence and her politically charged work as vice chair of the Jan. 6 Committee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to move on, and go do different things,\u201d said Maria Lemke, an accountant and 25-year resident of Cheyenne who said Cheney\u2019s role on the committee, combined with her frequent absence from the state, has led her to cast a vote for Trump-endorsed primary challenger Harriet Hageman. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s from Wyoming,\u201d were the first words Lemke said when asked what she liked about Hageman, who just 10 feet away was mingling with vendors in the fairground\u2019s expo center.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0535-1024x768-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0535-1024x768-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0535-300x225-1.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0535-768x576-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0535-1536x1152-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0535-2048x1536-1.jpeg 2048w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>While Cheney\u2019s attendance felt like a hit-and-run performance, Hageman was clearly in her element as she spoke with voters throughout the massive cowboy and rodeo festival of her hometown, held just 100 miles from the ranch where she grew up. While her family still maintains the ranch, Hageman lives with her husband in Wyoming\u2019s capital and largest city of just more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/cheyennecitywyoming\/PST045221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">65,000<\/a>. Cheney has a residence in Jackson but spends <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/14\/as-flooding-ravages-wyoming-and-shuts-down-yellowstone-liz-cheney-is-in-d-c-trying-to-indict-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most<\/a> of her time in northern Virginia where her kids go to school. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0548-1024x768-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0548-1024x768-1-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0548-300x225-1.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0548-768x576-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0548-1536x1152-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0548-2048x1536-1.jpeg 2048w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In the 10 months since <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/10\/the-gop-civil-war-liz-cheney-waged-is-here-and-it-just-might-throw-her-out-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launching<\/a> her primary challenge across town, Hageman said \u201cit\u2019s been fun\u201d on the campaign trail in her effort to oust a three-term incumbent and daughter of a former vice president. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a beautiful drive,\u201d Hageman told The Federalist, touting more than 36,000 miles traveled across the state near a row of chuckwagons complete with cast iron kitchens once used to follow cowboys on 1,000-mile cattle drives. In contrast, Cheney has been so consumed by an obsessive focus on prosecuting former President Donald Trump, that her few visits home has become <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/09\/liz-cheney-snubs-voters-to-mingle-with-reporters-instead-calling-constituents-crazies\/\">rare occasions<\/a> which have featured events with reporters as opposed to voters turned sour by the Jan. 6 inquisition. <\/p>\n<p>The words \u201ctraitor\u201d and \u201chypocrite\u201d were common descriptors reiterated by Wyoming voters throughout the festival to characterize their sole representative and her lead role on the Select Committee.<\/p>\n<p>George Hoff, a 22-year resident of Cheyenne who is now retired, described the Jan. 6 proceedings spearheaded by Cheney as a \u201cfarce\u201d and a \u201cwaste of taxpayer money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they beat that drum until it died,\u201d Hoff said. \u201cWhen she goes over to the Potomac, she forgets about Wyoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R42346.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half<\/a> the state being under the jurisdiction of the federal government, Cheney no longer holds her seat on the House Natural Resources Committee navigating Wyoming\u2019s myriad of public lands issues, instead directing her energy toward her vendetta against Trump with summer show trials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the first times in Wyoming\u2019s history that Wyoming\u2019s congressional representative is not on the Natural Resources Committee,\u201d Hageman said, adding she expects to be placed on the committee next year if elected. <\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s office confirmed to The Federalist Wednesday the Republican leader will back Hageman\u2019s request for the assignment but added final placement would ultimately be up to the Steering Committee after the elections. <\/p>\n<p>Seated on a bench under the shade at Indian Village, Joe Valois said Hageman\u2019s commitment to Wyoming is in part why he\u2019ll back her over Cheney in August. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s all Wyoming, she\u2019s all about Wyoming,\u201d said Valois, who lives in Cheyenne with his wife and six dogs. <\/p>\n<p>A retired 24-year veteran of the Air Force, Valois was careful not to spill his margarita or state secrets, but gave away everything when it came to how his neighbors felt about Cheney and the \u201ccorrupt\u201d Jan. 6 Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s on the same page as me,\u201d Valois said, with Cheney \u201cnot really focusing on Republican views and needs and what we want to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Cheney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/20\/liz-cheney-rakes-in-more-money-from-northern-virginia-than-from-her-home-state-wyoming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virginia-funded<\/a> war chest of nearly $7 million to deploy three weeks before election day, Hageman, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/candidate\/H2WY00166\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1.4 million<\/a> left on hand, isn\u2019t worried.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been pretty dramatically outspent,\u201d Hageman acknowledged, but added Cheney isn\u2019t spending money to defend her seat on Capitol Hill anymore. \u201cWhat she\u2019s doing is spending an enormous amount of money on staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Cheney, who recent polling shows is behind Hageman by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/17\/cheney-trails-trump-endorsed-challenger-by-22-points-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">22 points<\/a>, all but conceded the race in Wyoming where President Donald Trump won in 2020 by a wider margin than any other state. The endangered congresswoman appears to be capitalizing on her role with the Jan. 6 Committee to lay the foundation for a possible presidential run in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I have to choose between maintaining a seat in the House of Representatives or protecting the constitutional republic and ensuring the American people know the truth about Donald Trump, I\u2019m going to choose the Constitution and the truth every single day,\u201d Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/24\/liz-cheney-trump-jan-6-committee-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on CNN, leaving the door open to a bid for the White House after midterms. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-comments mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-comments-container d-flex flex-column align-items-center py-30\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fdrlst-mark.svg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-20\" alt=\"The Federalist logo eagle mark\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>Unlock commenting by joining the Federalist Community.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/plans\/pricing\/\" class=\"btn btn-on-white\">Subscribe<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEYENNE, Wyo. \u2014 Two days after the Associated Press wrote off Rep. 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