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Benavidez’s Conviction and Campaign | Cheyenne News
Billy Benavidez, facing a breach-of-peace conviction and a year of unsupervised probation, is doubling down on his campaign message of freedom from the surveillance state — a theme he’ll spotlight at a key Wednesday forum in Casper. Despite his guilty plea for harassing a police officer — stemming from an aggressive confrontation where he accused someone of sabotaging his life — Benavidez insists it’s his first offense and urges voters to “figure it out” for themselves. Running against James Byrd in the Democratic primary, he also backs term limits for lawmakers, while Byrd targets Liz Cheney…
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