Liz Cheney didn’t get it. She didn’t learn her lesson.
Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She once thought about running for the U.S. Senate from Wyoming, which her dad once represented while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was named defense secretary during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
She ran into this problem, though. Actual residents of Wyoming accused Liz Cheney of being a carpetbagger, someone who had not lived in the state since she was a little girl.
She has lived in Virginia her entire adult life.
Liz Cheney dropped out of the race for the Senate.
Now, though, she wants back in as a Wyoming politician. She has declared her intention to run for the state’s only House seat.
Cheney posted her announcement on her Facebook page.
Oops! She forgot to delete a reference on the Facebook post that revealed a tiny detail. It contained the place from where she issued the post: Alexandria, Va.
She still lives there. Cheney, though, did remove the reference to Alexandria.
Will this bring about more carpetbagger accusations? It might.
I know what you’re thinking. What’s the big deal? Other “carpetbaggers” have been elected to public office. Hillary Clinton moved to New York and then got elected to the Senate from that state in 2000. My favorite carpetbagger was the late Robert F. Kennedy, who also got elected to the Senate from New York in 1964; he, too, faced the same accusation.
Still, Liz Cheney needs to prepare to answer the questions about where she lives and whether she really knows much about the state she wants to represent on Capitol Hill.