Reputation
Through the years Wyman gained a reputation for moving around the area in order to run for office. He originally served as an Assemblyman from Tehachapi (in Kern County), moved South to run for congress in 1992 (in Los Angeles County), then won election to a state Senate seat in 1993 (in Fresno County, north of Kern county) before losing a state Senate primary in 1996 (in Los Angeles county again).
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“This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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