A Casper man who ran for one of Wyoming’s two U.S. Senate seats in 2024 and made headlines with an aspiration to buy TikTok has given plausible enough evidence that a former state legislator damaged his reputation to keep his defamation lawsuit alive, for now.

Reid Rasner’s defamation lawsuit against former state Sen. Anthony Bouchard will survive at least into the evidence-swapping phase, a judge has ruled.

Rasner on July 8 sued Bouchard, a Republican of the Cheyenne area.

The lawsuit complaint asserts that Bouchard made Facebook comments accusing Rasner of having a “student sexual abuse record” at Casper College, among other statements.

Those posts defamed Rasner in ways that caused both pointed and automatic harm, the lawsuit says.

Rasner also accuses Bouchard of interfering with R

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