LANDER – Republican state Sen. Cale Case, an incumbent of nearly 34 years, batted down his most recent challenger Tuesday to win the GOP nomination for his Fremont County-based Senate District 25.
He bested challenger Lisa Wilson, whom the Fremont County Republican Party had endorsed, with an unofficial 63% wedge over challenger Wilson's 36.73%.
Case had other foes besides Wilson this campaign season.
Make Liberty Win, a Virginia-based political action group that backs Wyoming Freedom Caucus-aligned candidates, spent $549,144 in the state’s primary election cycle.
The group spent more money opposing Case, $14,177, than on any other Wyoming candidate. It distributed mailers depicting case and his local Republican colleague Rep. Lloyd Larsen in sheep’s clothing, among other attacks.
Case has a PhD in economics. He is a pro-choice Republican who often voices discomfort toward legislating on social issues.
He broke from many of his usual allies this year to vote in favor of the Second Amendment Protection Act, which Gov. Mark Gordon vetoed.
Every sheriff in Wyoming had opposed the bill as a tone-deaf attempt at grafting Second Amendment protections into law, but Case and others called it the hardline stance Wyoming needs.
Case pointed to two U.S. Border Patrol agents’ fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, who’d been protesting, then confronting agents, while armed during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis.
There is no Democratic candidate registered to challenge Case at the Nov. 3 general election.
