star tribune. lynn cheney told me to shut up. lynne cheney is liz cheney's mom, dick cheney's wife. this story made the national press too. lynne cheney told me to shut up. summarize this, there was some sort of dispute between wyoming u.s. senator allen simpson, and liz cheney's mom, at a liz cheney campaign event sort of? regardless of the details, a shut up was allegedly thrown. he later said it was three shutups that was denied by the cheney's side, but later confirmed by witnesses who say they heard the shutups, then the cody enterprise newspaper posted a photo of the alleged shutup happening at the event. after liz's mom denied she really did say shut up, allen simpson wrote a statement to the newspaper saying lynne cheney