A Blog Mirror Look Back. Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming History in the Making: January 6, 2014, Liz Cheney drops out of U.S. Senate race.

Looking back seven years ago. . . 

Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming History in the Making: January 6, 2014, L...: 

Wyoming History in the Making: January 6, 2014, Liz Cheney drops out of U.S. Senate race.

Liz Cheney dropped out of the primary campaign for the U.S. Senate citing a health concern within her family.  While some rumors indicate that one of her children has developed diabetes, always a serious disease and a particularly worrisome one in children, no official news has disclosed what that concern is.

Cheney, the daughter of former controversial Vice President Dick Cheney, mounted a controversial historic challenge of popular incumbent Mike Enzi.  Seeking to find a ground to stand against Enzi, she tacked to the right of Cheney in a campaign which drew a lot of attention, but at the time of her withdrawal was clearly failing.

While an internal party challenge to a sitting incumbent member of Congress from Wyoming isn't unusual, one that is such a serious effort is.  It is undoubtedly the most expensive such effort ever mounted in the state, and it started stunningly early.  While Cheney failed to gain enough adherents by this stage to make her primary election likely, she did polarize the GOP in the state, which seems to be emerging from a long period of internal unity, and which also seems to be beginning to move away from the Tea Party elements within it, much like the national party is. This could be the beginning of an interesting political era within the state or at least within the state's GOP.

It also served to bring up distinct arguments about who is entitled to run in Wyoming, with Liz Cheney's campaign apparently badly underestimating the degree of state identity born by many Wyomingites.  Voters appeared to not accept Cheney as a Wyomingite based upon her long absence from the state and appear to have also misinterpreted Wyoming's long re-election cycle for her father as a species of deep person admiration, rather than an admiration of effectiveness.  Late in the campaign she was forced to introduce television advertisements which did nothing other than to point out her family's connection (through her mother, her father was born in Nebraska and spent his early years there) to the state and which were silent on her career as a Virginia lawyer married to a man who is still a Virginia lawyer.

All in all, this early primary effort will likely remain a fairly unique historical episode in the state's history, but potentially one with some long term impacts.

We certainly couldn't have foreseen all that was coming, and where Cheney would emerge, let alone the contest that she's now in, both for her seat in this upcoming Primary Election, and well as the 2024 Presidential election.

Monday Morning Repeats for the Week of August 7, 2011. Prejudice.

On August 10, 2011, I ran an item on prejudice that dealt more specifically with the history of religious bias in the US.  I've dealt with the same story elsewhere on this blog, but this might be the first time I ran an item on it.

Prejudice

Monday Morning Repeats from the week of July 17, 2011

 Which was, not coincidentally, the only post for July, 2011.

The Old Homesteads

Monday Morning Repeats. From the Week of June 11, 2011. Communications and Road Miles

This entry was actually the only post for June, 1911.  This blog used to have big intervals between publication.

Communications and Road Miles

Monday Morning Repeats for the week of May 21, 2011: Knowing, or not, what we think we know.

An old pondering, which was an early "blog mirror" entry, still well worth pondering

Knowing, or not, what we think we know.

Monday Morning Repeats for the week of May 8, 2011: Social and Cultural History and Film

Once again, and easy choice, as it was the only thing that was posted that week:

Social and Cultural History and Film

Monday Morning Repeats for the week of April 3, 2011.

Our repeat of the best entry, indeed the only entry, for April 3, 2011.  It is an interesting one.

Remembering what places were like

Monday Morning Repeats. From the Week of March 19, 2011 Food and diet.

This was the only entry of that week.

Lex Anteinternet: Food and diet: It's really easy to romanticize the past, including the kitchen table of the past, but a recent Freakanomics podcast I listened to sugg...

Monday Morning Repeat for the Week of March 5, 2011

 A good post, but the only one of that week.

The distance of things, and self segregation

Lex Anteinternet: Sultans of Swing (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli f...

Weird. .. I just about uploaded this again after two years.

Must be something about February.

Appropriate for our Mid Week At Work series.

Lex Anteinternet: Sultans of Swing (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli f.

Sultans of Swing (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli featuring Mary Spender)

Really interesting heavy metal treatment of Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing.

Sultans of Swing was the then unknown rock band's tribute to a south London jazz band by that name, that one of the band's members had actually heard when stopping in a bar to get out of the rain, and in which a member of the jazz band actually did say "one more think. . . we are the Sultans of Swing".  The tribune song followed.

The song has always been an interesting one in that its a rock bands tribute to a jazz band which is getting ignored in the rock and roll era.  The "crowd of young boys hanging around in the corner" are criticized as they don't like jazz as it "ain't what they call rock and roll".

Dire Straits is a long ways from heavy metal but the song makes the transition surprisingly well in this mixed heavy metal/guitar rock tribune.  It's odd to think of how the song has that sort of staying power.  Mary Spender is a rock guitarist who has come up solely through net exposure and who is the representative of a line of guitars.  So the ironies of the song continue on it seems.

Monday Morning Repeat for the Week of February 20, 2011

 And we're doing more than one again:

Heating

Not to get too preachy here, but recent events have shown this thread to be more relevant than ever:

Nice Post on what every American should learn about U.S. History

The distance of things.

Monday Morning Repeat for the week of February 13, 2011

 We're featuring two once again:

365 Days With A Model A.

What one building says about the march of history.

Monday Morning Repeats for the week of January 23, 2011

I'm going to run two of these this week.  Here's the first, which is one that has been a common theme here over the years:

When horses were a major economic factor.

And here's a second, which has been as well:

Some things don't change that much.

The appearance of some things in regard to my office actually has changed in recent years.  The little desk that once held my computer has been replaced by a century old "secretary" that my mom, and then me, inherited in turn.

Interestingly, it works quite a bit better than the little stand alone desk did for this purpose.

Monday Morning Repeat for the Week of November 8, 2009.

 Again, the only post that week, and posted a bit late this week.

The Telephone

Monday Morning Repeat for the Week of September 6, 2009.

 It was the only post that week.

Slow medicine

Monday Morning Repeat for the week of August 2, 2009. The Speed of Cooking

 

The Speed of Cooking

Monday Morning Repeats. An Election Recollection Issue. The best post of the week of November 5, 2017.

We are running two Monday Morning repeats today, for two reasons.

One is that we missed last weeks, so we're making up for it.

The other is that this is suddenly timely again, but likely forgotten.

Lex Anteinternet: Go Donna! In a week of revelations, Donna Brazile...

Had Brazile had her way, the recent election probably would have been on whether or not to reelect Joe Biden. . . and his opponent probably would have been a much younger Republican.

Monday Morning Repeat for the week of July 19, 2009

This has been a frequent topic here:

More tiny, but viable, towns

Monday Morning Repeats for the week of June 28, 2009. 1920, law, and the Geology Museum

 A repeat from over a decade ago that sounds like it could have been written now:

1920, law, and the Geology Museum

It's odd to see that eleven years ago I was then noting the near centennial, but not that near, of the law school's founding.  I also see that's when I learned of its age.

And the budget problems UW was then having. . . well they're worse now.

Indeed, frankly, everything about the this topic has grown worse over the past decade.  Wyoming's economy is showing real systemic problems, and its government by extension.  Politics has become more polarized.  The university is suffering from the problems of the pandemic. And the law school's purpose has become questionable in the wake of the UBE.

Monday Morning Repeat from the week of June 14, 2009. Follow Up to the Combs murder, discussed below

 Here's our rerun for the week of June 14, 2009.

Followup to the Combs murder, discussed below

Why this entry?

Well, it was the only post that week.