Cheney challenger who got 14-year-old pregnant when he was 18 calls it ‘Romeo and Juliet story’
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One of the Republicans lined up to challenge GOP Rep. Liz Cheney for her seat in Congress admitted that he impregnated a teenage girl.
Anthony Bouchard, who has been a Wyoming state senator since 2017, admitted to impregnating a 14-year-old girl when he was 18. He made the admission during a Facebook Live video, which was done to get in front of a story that was dropping, he said.
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“So, bottom line, it’s a story when I was young — two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,” he told the Casper Star-Tribune. “You’ve heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story.”
The duo got married a year later, which was permitted under Florida law at the time. The marriage lasted about three years before the couple got divorced.
“A lot of pressure — pressure to abort a baby, I got to tell you. I wasn’t going to do it, and neither was she,” he said. “There was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere, and the only thing I could see as the right thing to do was to get married and take care of him.”
His ex-wife committed suicide, Bouchard said, and he raised their son. She was 20 when she died, the Casper Star-Tribune reported, citing records.
“She had problems in another relationship. Her dad had committed suicide. He was a police officer, stuck a gun to his chest, and he died. For whatever reason, she decided to do the same,” Bouchard said in the video.
“Sadly, he’s made some wrong choices in his life,” Bouchard said of his son. “He’s almost become my estranged son. Some of the things that he’s got going on in his life, I certainly don’t approve of them, but I’m not going to abandon him. I still love him, just like when he was born.”
Bouchard also accused a company he didn’t name of starting “this investigation,” which he said was “a political opposition research company.”
“This is really a message about how dirty politics is,” he said. “They’ll stop at nothing, man, when you get in the lead, and when you’re somebody that can’t be controlled, you’re somebody who works for the people. They’ll come after you. That’s why good people don’t run for office.”
Bouchard doesn’t believe Cheney’s campaign was involved in the impending story, he added, and a spokesperson said her team “had no involvement in this at all.”
Other Cheney challengers include state legislator Chuck Gray, paralegal Robyn Belinskey, former Pavillion Mayor Marissa Selvig, and attorney Darin Smith.
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Cheney has become an outsider in the GOP as she has refused to tamper down her criticism of former President Donald Trump. She was the highest-ranking member of her party to vote in favor of the impeachment of Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and her continued commentary on the subjects resulted in her removal as the party conference chairwoman.
Her vote prompted a number of candidates to launch challenger campaigns, and the former president is expected to support one of them in 2022.
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