In 2000, Lyon worked for New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Jeffrey Howard, and distributed flyers that pointed out the wife of opponent Gordon Humphrey was a member of an orgasm cult.
[3] In a politically-influenced case, the New Hampshire state Attorney General issued a meaningless cease-and-desist order, almost one year after the campaign ended, to Lyon for failing to put a disclaimer on the mailing.
During the campaign, Lyon struck up a pen-pal relationship with a former Democratic Hudson County executive serving time in federal prison for accepting a bribe to seek information on opponent U.S.
Lyon's opposition research for the Kean campaign included work on a swiftboat-style movie said to show the complicity of Democratic incumbent Senator Bob Menendez in a 1980s case of corruption.
[6] Before the campaign ended, the negative issues Lyon helped raise about Menendez caused then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie to initiate a federal criminal investigation against the incumbent Democratic U.S. senator.