Liz Cheney drops bid for seat in Senate
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Republican Liz Cheney, the oldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, ended her US Senate bid in Wyoming yesterday, citing serious family health issues.
Cheney, a lawyer who worked in the US State Department during the administration of President George W. Bush, was seeking to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Mike Enzi in a primary election in August.
“Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign,” Cheney said yesterday morning in a statement on her Facebook page.
“My children and their futures were the motivation for our campaign, and their health and wellbeing will always be my overriding priority.”
She did not elaborate on the health problems. Cheney and her husband, Philip Perry, have five children.
Cheney’s entry onto the political stage in the conservative state has been bumpy. Cheney, 47, who spent much of her youth and adult life in Virginia, had her Wyoming credentials challenged in spite of her family’s deep roots in the state.
Last summer, she committed a gaffe in a state where hunting and fishing are taken seriously when she bought the wrong fishing license after living in Wyoming for a few months.
Her candidacy was further complicated by a family spat after she asserted her opposition to same-sex marriage.
Her sister, Mary Cheney, a lesbian who last year married longtime partner Heather Poe, chastised her for taking a stance that is “dead wrong.”
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