Rep. Liz Cheney with close friend Rep. Jamie Raskin, whose wife has been nominated for a job that would allow her to cause significant harm to Wyoming’s industries
Rep. Liz Cheney has not uttered a word in protest against Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, a nominee whose clearly-stated policy views would allow her to cause significant harm to Wyoming’s industries. The nominee, Sarah Bloom Raskin, is an ardent opponent of fossil fuels and, if confirmed, is expected to use her position to limit energy industry access to capital. Raskin is the wife of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Cheney’s close friend and colleague on the sham January 6th Committee, which continues its unrelenting attacks on former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Harriet Hageman, Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Wyoming, today issued the following statement:
“It can be accurately stated that the most dangerous place in Washington, D.C. is between Liz Cheney and a television camera when she’s promoting her work on the illegitimate January 6th Committee. But she has been strangely silent when it comes to her friend on the committee, Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin, and the fact that his wife has been nominated for the powerful job of regulating banking.
“Sarah Bloom Raskin is an outspoken, radical opponent of the fossil fuels industries that are critically important not only to Wyoming, but the country as a whole. She has repeatedly argued for starving our traditional energy industries of money as a means to advance her extreme environmentalist agenda. She would be a disaster for Wyoming, and this doesn’t take into account serious questions about her past behavior in securing a sweetheart arrangement for a Colorado bank to which she was connected. This is another case of powerful people becoming more powerful and wealthy, while normal people at home suffer the consequences.
“Cheney is doing Nancy Pelosi’s political dirty work on the January 6th Committee. It is now obvious that she will remain entirely silent on an unqualified and dangerous nominee whose goal is to destroy our energy industries, in order to protect her friendship with a Democrat on the committee. While it’s true that the Senate is charged with considering the president’s nominations, as our only member of the House of Representatives, it is Cheney’s responsibility to expose the underlying corruption and stand up and be heard in opposition. Once again, she is not doing her job because she cares more about her D.C. elitist friends and their quests for power than she does about protecting the people of Wyoming.”
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