Career
Wyman was vice president of the Antelope Valley Board of Trade in 1976 when he first ran for California State Assembly from the Tehachapi-Palmdale based 34th District. He narrowly lost to Democratic incumbent Larry Chimbole but went on to defeat him two years later and served in the Assembly from 1978 until 1992, when he opted not to seek reelection and instead run for congress. In 2000 Wyman ran again for Assembly in the 34th Assembly District, which consisted of the Mojave Desert portion of San Bernardino County except for the Morongo valley, the eastern Kern County desert/mountains area and Inyo County.
In 2002, redistricting after the 2000 Census promoted Wyman to run in the new 36th Assembly District.
He moved to a small apartment in Phelan, in the rural San Bernardino County desert, to qualify to run, which prompts his political opponents to accuse him of being a carpetbagger. He narrowly lost the Republican primary to Sharon Runner of Lancaster, the wife of then-incumbent Assemblyman George Runner.
In 2006, he ran again for Assembly in the 36th Assembly District, based in Kern County, but lost the Republican primary. The 25th Congressional district was created after the 1991 reapportionment and was centered on the new city of Santa Clarita in fast growing northern Los Angeles County.
Wyman moved south from Tehachapi in Kern County to run for the new 25th.
He narrowly lost the Grand Old Party primary to Santa Clarita mayor Buck McKeon, however. In 1994, despite huge Republican gains across the country, Wyman lost his state Senate seat to then Democratic Assemblyman Jim Costa (whom Wyman had defeated in the special election). He was the only Republican west of the Mississippi to be unseated.
In 1996 he ran for a neighboring state Senate seat and lost the Grand Old Party primary again, this time to Palmdale area Assemblyman Pete Knight.
In 2010 he ran once more for the state Senate seat he had lost to Costa in 1994. He narrowly lost the primary to Tim Theissen, who then lost the general election to Democrat Michael J. Rubio.
Through the years Wyman gained a reputation for moving around the area in order to run for office. In 2000 Wyman made a comeback of sorts, winning his old 34th Assembly district.
Two years later, however, he made a tactical error and decided to run for reelection in the neighboring 36th district instead.
He was anticipating an opening in the state Senate in 2004, a district that was outside the boundaries of his 34th Assembly district, but within those of the 36th. In 2014 Wyman was an unsuccessful candidate for California Attorney General, losing the Grand Old Party spot to former deputy state Attorney General Ronald Gold by just 1.2%. In 2016 Wyman declared his candidacy for the United States. Senate seat from California being vacated by Democrat Barbara Boxer.