Cheney primary challenger says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18

[Lasher]

Source: NBC News

A state senator in Wyoming who's running against U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney and four others in a Republican primary acknowledged he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, vowing not to end his campaign for Congress.

It was a disclosure he said he was forced to make because of "the establishment swamp," but he did not explicitly blame Cheney or any of the other candidates in the race.

"Everybody has something in their life that they did... We’ve all had these problems. Why is this a big deal?" state Sen. Anthony Bouchard said Thursday in a Facebook Live video about the relationship.

"So, bottom line, it's a story when I was young. Two teenagers, girl gets pregnant. You've heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story," he said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cheney-primary-challenger-says-he-impregnated-14-year-old-when-n1268147

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They married when she was 15, then committed suicide at 20 after a bitter divorce. Sad story.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Just 'WOW!'

Even with IQ45 gone the GQP continues to offer up 'the best!'

[Roy Rolling]

12. Depends on the voters

His resumé is probably impressive to national Republicans.

[Mr. Evil]

18. So sad, no shit.

Republicans today are beyond redemption.

[Autumn]

2. Another sick fucking republican. They had to drill a mile under the barrel to scape this one up.

[3catwoman3]

3. "We've all had these problems."

Oh, no, we have not.

What a POS.

[lastlib]

37. Why, sure, every teenage guy screws a 14-year-old girl, right??

- - - "Sure, we all have these problems in our lives, don't we?" - - -


DAMN! That is Effed up by all but Repub standards.

[pwb]

4. And this makes him an attractive candidate to who?

This guy thinks it is no big deal? Isn't there a couple more people in Wyoming to choose from?

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. He's going to fit right in. nt

[bottomofthehill]

6. Republican family values

[Orrex]

7. He could have impregnated one hundred 14 year olds

Hell, he could impregnate them now/i], and Republicans wouldn't give a shit. They have no morals, values, or principles other than "win at all costs."

If anything, this career-shattering admission will only endear him further to the cult, as long as he flatters the sacred orange asshole.

[Turbineguy]

8. So he's qualified by republican standards.

[GulfCoast66]

9. Just got an 8% bump. Republicans love girls young and pregnant.

[artemisia1]

40. You forgot "and barefoot"... /nt

[Dawson Leery]

10. The ideal Republican.

[lastlib]

17. He's got the GOPee nomination sewn up, sounds like.

[Major Nikon]

11. Not sure what the laws were then, but today it's known as statutory rape

I seriously doubt it was legal even 40 years ago, but for the sake of argument let's say the laws were different back then and it was legal for an 18 yr old to have sex with a 14 yr old. Describing rape in modern terms as a "Romeo and Juliet" story is absolutely disgusting and even more so when you realize she committed suicide.

I'm thinking we are going to need a bigger basket for the GOP.

[Lasher]

14. Florida's law at the time allowed for two people to get married at any age if there was a pregnancy.

Her mother consented, I believe.

https://www.businessinsider.com/liz-cheney-challenger-impregnated-14-year-old-girl-at-18-2021-5

[Major Nikon]

28. Pretty hard to legally get pregnant in that situation, no?

[Lasher]

39. Yes, under current Florida law.

Florida's age of consent is 18. They have a close in exemption that allows minors aged 16 or 17 to legally engage in sexual intercourse with a partner no older than 23. Since she was only 14 at the time, that exemption would not have applied.

I don't know what Florida's age of consent was back then, but I don't think it was as low as 14.

[not fooled]

13. Ugh

So repellent he makes yet another warmongering, RW extremist Cheney look good by comparison.

A Cheney cut from the same mold as dear old dad...being the hero in this situation...who woulda thunk it...just shows how low the GQPee has fallen. Bottom-of-barrel scraping for sure with this guy.

[deurbano]

15. The 37-yr-old son from this rape is currently imprisoned for forceable sodomy and other charges.

Bouchard’s son, Tony Raymond Bouchard, is currently imprisoned at the Bob Wiley Detention Facility in Visalia, California, on multiple convictions, including sodomy by use of force, sexual penetration by foreign object and false imprisonment by violence. He has been incarcerated since 2018.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2021/05/21/bouchard-announces-teen-pregnancy-marriage-from-florida-days/

[SunSeeker]

34. I guess that's what happens when raised by a rapist.

The boy's mom committed suicide at 20, after a bitter divorce with Bouchard, when the boy was 5.

[IcyPeas]

35. nice family

[Claire Oh Nette]

16. Another GOP tool who never read the assignment

He's a man who had sex with a 14 year old, an 8th grader. He was clearly father of the year, based on his son's prison term for sexual assault. Apple. Tree.

However, this is horse shit:

"Two teenagers, girl gets pregnant. You've heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story,"

He's never read R & J; Plot laid out in first 14 lines, and I don't see pregnant 14 yer old in there anywhere...


Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

[lastlib]

19. "Apple, tree"?

Try "turd, asshole."

[Warpy]

20. The rest of the story, asshole

Did she abort? Was she forced to endure the pregnancy and childbirth? Are you supporting her and the kid? Her life didn't end because a selfish male who wouldn't wear a condom knocked her up when she was a child. There is a hell of a lot more you need to confess to, buddy. If her life wasn't ruined, she had to grow up one hell of a lot faster than she should have.

Maybe you stopped thinking about her years ago, you SOB, but you can bet your ass you're the only one who has among all the people who knew her then and know her now.

[SunSeeker]

24. She is not alive now. He pressured her to have the baby and marry him.

Bouchard proudly recounts how he would not let her have an aborton because of his "pro life" values. And insisted they marry. They got married when she was 15, and she had a boy. They then had a bitter divorce, and she ended up committing suicide at age 20. Their son ended up troubled, and has no relationship with Bouchard. The girl's father, a cop, ended committing suicide as well.

Bouchard ruined a lot of lives.

[Warpy]

31. Good gawd, so his selfishness ended two lives and made a third miserable

I hope people are bringing all this up, that sanctimonious shit needs to face up to what he did.

[tonekat]

32. I think there are 6 deaths in Romeo & Juliet...

...he's on his way!

Really, what a lowlife Bouchard is. He thinks he's no worse than if he failed to return a book to the library on time.

[not fooled]

21. Wow, and GQPeers try to pick on Joe for his son's history

But IOKIYAR and your son is actually in prison.

[Midnight Writer]

22. This guy is lying! He's making this whole thing up to appeal to the Trump voter.

[SunSeeker]

23. He literally destroyed that child's life, and her family's life.

Last edited Sat May 22, 2021, 02:49 PM - Edit history (1)

Bouchard proudly recounts how he would not let her have an aborton because of his "pro life" values. And insisted they marry. They got married when she was 15, and she had a boy. They then had a bitter divorce, and she ended up committing suicide at age 20. 

Her father, a cop, committed suicide as well.

This is what lack of reproductive freedom looks like. And what a lack of a sense of responsibility by a grown man looks like.

Meanwhile, Bouchard still brags about how he maintained his "pro life" principles, insisting that this 14-year-old CHILD have his baby and marry him.

Oh, and the son he forced that child to have turned out very troubled (currently in jail for sodomy by force, among other crimes) and has no relationship with Bouchard.

Bouchard wrecked a lot of lives.

He should have been prosecuted for statutory rape.

[rpannier]

25. We've all had these problems

Uhhh... No.
I don't have problems that involve impregnating any girl, not when I was 18 or any other age

[SunSeeker]

33. Right? I don't know anyone who impregnated a child.

He says they were "both teenagers" and she was "a little younger" than him. He was 18. An adult. She was FOUR YEARS younger, not just "a littlle younger." She was 14. A child. That's statutory rape. Age of consent in Florida where he did this was 18 and still is.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Just another deplorable. Sicker than most, but fits in the basket.

[IronLionZion]

27. Unfortunately Repugs love that kind of stuff

Roy Moore had his supporters.

[marble falls]

29. I will support in my small way the Democrat running, but Cheney will Bouchard's ass in the primary.

[Crowman2009]

42. Wyoming use to have a great Democratic representative.

Teno Roncalio was his name. And his last term ended in 1978.

[marble falls]

43. Now that's a drought!

[marble falls]

30. I love this line from the Star article ...

“This is really a message about how dirty politics is,” said Bouchard, one of Wyoming’s most prominent gun rights advocates. “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.”

Sounds like a confession to me.

[pressbox69]

36. The GOP

is as crazy as their base.

[Jimvanhise]

38. BURYING THE LEDE

All of these reports have the same headline, 18 year old got 14 year old pregnant, but buried in the article is the fact that she killed herself at age 20 (which he claims had nothing to do with him). What does her family and friends have to say? Nothing?

[Javaman]

41. More and more of these pieces of shit gop assholes

Have been made acceptable because of the orange asshole.

They accuse the Dems of being pedophiles and child molesters. Of having sex rings and imprisoning women and underage teens as sex slaves and everyday we here yet another right wing doing the very thing they accuse us of.

Projection

They also accuse us cannibalism.

How long until some prominent right wing gop asshole comes clean about being a cannibal? And the right wing mouth breathers will be just okay with that.

All is acceptable to them. There is no bottom.

[LiberatedUSA]

44. "We've all had these problems."

No, no that’s not a true statement.