Candidate Harriet Hageman visits

Wyoming US House Representative candidate Harriet Hageman visited community members at the Hot Springs County Historical Museum on December 14 to connect and inform them of her campaign. She is running against Liz Cheney. Hageman has been endorsed by President Donald Trump and for his MAGA part of the Republican party. Cheney has been at odds with the citizens of Wyoming's Republican party and Hageman seeks to replace her.

Hageman's official website gives some background to her and her campaign and said, "I am a deep-rooted Wyomingite. Raised on a ranch near Fort Laramie, I grew up understanding the value of hard work, integrity, self-sufficiency, and honesty. Here in Wyoming, we have a long and proud history of standing up against an overbearing government. And now, we are fighting back against big government bureaucrats who want to manage our lands, control our lives, and dictate what we are allowed to think and say."

At Hageman's event here in Hot Springs County, she was available briefly to speak with the Independent Record and was asked what is at stake for Wyoming?

Hageman responded, "What's at stake is Wyoming is entitled to have a representative that represents Wyoming values and understands Wyoming. The fact is that I am a fourth-generation Wyomingite. I spent much of my professional career protecting and fighting for Wyoming. I'm not a career insider in Washington, D.C., and I would think that what's at stake is the again, having someone from Wyoming represent Wyoming. We only have one representative and we need to make it count."

Hageman also explained what she plans to do to defeat Cheney. She said, "Well, exactly what I'm doing today. Get my message out. Go out to the people of Wyoming and talk to them about my vision, what I've done, the work that I've done for the state, my work on private property rights, constitutional rights, water and natural resources. The work that I've done in terms of regulatory reform. The work that I've been doing in pushing back against the unlawful administrative state, going out and meeting with people in every community in the state. By the end of this week, I will have had all 23 counties by the end of the year, just since the end of September I have driven almost 10,000 miles. So it's a matter of going out and meeting with the people that I will be representing when I get to Congress."

Hageman expressed her thoughts about the possibility of election fraud in the state of Wyoming. She said, "I am concerned about election integrity is what I am concerned. OK? So I have been meeting with the Secretary of State to talk to him about how our elections are run and what kind of machines we use, how the data is transmitted, chain of custody, all of those kinds of things to make sure that we do have integrity in our elections. It's very important whenever I've been traveling around, it's one of the foremost issues for people, so we absolutely need to make sure that our elections are free or fair."