Posted on 10/02/2006 4:58:17 PM PDT by lunarbicep
Former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage died Monday in a car crash, her daughter said.
Chenoweth-Hage, a Republican who was elected to Congress from Idaho in 1994 and served through 2000, was 68. Her daughter, Meg Chenoweth Keenan, said Chenoweth-Hage was a passenger in the Monday morning crash near Tonopah, Nev. No one else was seriously injured in the one-car crash, she said.
Chenoweth had been married since 1999 to Wayne Hage, a Nevada rancher who came to epitomize Nevada's Sagebrush Rebellion as he battled for decades with the federal government over public lands and private property rights. He died in June at age 69.
Born in Topeka, Kan., Chenoweth-Hage grew up in Grants Pass, Ore. and attended Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash., before moving to the northern Idaho timber town of Orofino, where she worked at Northside Medical Center.
She became a well-known political name in the state when she moved to Boise in the 1970s, serving as the executive director of the Idaho Republican Party and becoming U.S. Rep. Steven Symms' chief of staff.
She ran for Congress against incumbent Democrat Larry LaRocco and gained national attention when she held "endangered salmon bakes," serving canned salmon and ridiculing the listing of Idaho salmon as an endangered species during fundraisers.
An advocate of smaller government and property rights, Chenoweth-Hage won the race and served a self-imposed three-term limit as a U.S. representative.
This deplorable hit piece should be responded to. Email is listed. Let the Compost know how we feel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301565.html
This news stunned and saddened me. It was comforting in a way, to know that Helen and Wayne were out there defending property rights and the rights of their fellow Americans, and now they are both gone. There are so few true Americans left.
She was the real deal. She'll be sorely missed by us movement conservatives.
Milosevic and Babic are down. Karadic and Mladic are still alive.
Bump!
Slick could as easily have told the spanish marxist to screw off. The two things which were on the front pages of American newspapers just prior to Kosovo were Juanita Broaddrick and Chinagate.
I met Helen. She is very nice and beautiful. She left a large gap in Congress. I will always figure that the infamous Hillary got her.
Forest
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