Senate candidate Liz Cheney released her first Senate campaign ad highlighting her family’s connections to Wyoming.
The ad, named “Generations,” features Cheney describing her family’s history in Wyoming.
“Twenty years ago Phil and I were married here in Wyoming and today we’re raising our kids here, on the same Wyoming values I grew up with,” Cheney said in the ad, released late Wednesday. “My family first came here walking the Mormon trail. My great grandfather moved to the salt creek oil fields where he and my great grandmother raised five kids in a tent with wooden sides.”
Cheney goes on to describe her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s successful congressional campaign in Wyoming. Liz Cheney is currently running for Sen. Mike Enzi’s (R-WY) Senate seat.
“I’m running for the United States Senate because it’s time for a new generation of leaders to step up to the plate,” Cheney continued in the ad. “I’ll fight hard, I’ll fight smart, and I’ll get the job done.”
Cheney’s critics have repeatedly called attention to the fact that before she ran for Senate, Cheney lived in Virginia.
“When I heard Liz Cheney was running for Senate I wondered if she was running in her home state of Virginia,” Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) said after Cheney announced her candidacy.
In August Cheney was forced to apologize for entering false residency information on a Wyoming fishing license application she submitted a year earlier. Cheney said she had not realized that there was a 365-day residency requirement to obtain a fishing license.
Some of Enzi’s supporters have also formed a super PAC to support his re-election. They named the super PAC “Wyoming’s Own” — a not-so-subtle jab at Cheney’s carpetbagger problem.
The ad will run for nine days and at a cost of about $55,000 according to Politico. Most of the ad buy is focused in the Casper, Wyoming area.
Watch Cheney’s new ad below:
