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Manifestor_of_Light

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18. Helen Chenoweth, conservative congresswoman, died from not wearing one.
Mon Nov 17, 2014, 06:57 PM
Nov 2014

She was a congresswoman from Idaho, extremely conservative, and was in a car wreck and died after being thrown from the vehicle. She drove because she was selected for a hand search at the Boise airport and refused.

From wikipedia:

Later life

During her final term, Chenoweth married rancher and author Wayne Hage in Boise in 1999[12] and changed her name to Helen Chenoweth-Hage. After leaving Congress, she moved to Hage's Nevada ranch, where the two continued to write and speak on private property rights issues. Wayne Hage died after a battle with cancer at age 68 on June 5, 2006.[13][14]

After leaving Congress, Chenoweth-Hage continued to make headlines. In 2003 at the Boise Airport she was selected by the Transportation Security Administration for a hand search before they would permit her to board a plane for her Nevada home. Chenoweth-Hage requested to see a copy of the regulation granting United States Department of Homeland Security the authority to search her without cause. When the request was denied, she refused to submit to the search and elected to make the 300-mile (480 km) trip by rental car. "Our borders are wide open and yet they're shaking down a 66-year-old white grandmother they greeted by name," she said of the incident. "It's time the American people say no to this kind of invasion. It's a question of personal privacy. There shouldn't be that kind of search without reasonable cause."[15]
Death

On October 2, 2006, Chenoweth-Hage was killed after being thrown from the passenger seat of a sport utility vehicle that overturned on an isolated highway in central Nevada, near Tonopah. She was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the car. Her (step) daughter-in-law and grandson, who were also in the vehicle, suffered only minor injuries.[16]


Her family values (also from Wikipedia):

She was a critic of President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal and was one of the first to call for his resignation over the affair, although she admitted that she had carried on a six-year illicit romance with married rancher Vernon Ravenscroft,[8] when she worked for his natural-resources consulting firm during the 1980s. Chenoweth claimed that her case was different from the Clinton/Lewinsky case since she was a private citizen at the time, and claimed her case was different because "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it." [9][10]

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Or ask them if they want Koch Bros owned Georgia Pacific to be allowed to pour randys1 Nov 2014 #1
I agree, show them whatever works..here is another example.. Stuart G Nov 2014 #2
When Nader was insisting seat belts be mandatory, what we KNOW FOR A FACT is ALL teaparty randys1 Nov 2014 #4
A few weeks ago I was dining with some RW friends when a statement was made Thinkingabout Nov 2014 #3
Here is an easy one to show them... Stuart G Nov 2014 #6
Any regs proposed MUST come from a white conservative otherwise they will kill randys1 Nov 2014 #7
But do they fail in regulating abortion clinics? Thinkingabout Nov 2014 #8
No shit, they regulate the hell out of them, but we know all cons are hypocrites randys1 Nov 2014 #9
Time to bring back this old chestnut. . . DinahMoeHum Nov 2014 #5
"so what you're saying is that you want companies to be as unethical as possible?" unblock Nov 2014 #10
tell them to fly in an airplane that has had no government supervision.... spanone Nov 2014 #11
Outstanding point..no air traffic control..no regs on airplane specs, no safety features Stuart G Nov 2014 #12
how about those gov't regulated red, green & yellow lights that pop up every few intersections? spanone Nov 2014 #13
Nothing, because trying to teach a fish to fly Aerows Nov 2014 #14
But camels CAN swim ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #16
Try to enforce a contract without Socialist Courts and Law Enforcement. One_Life_To_Give Nov 2014 #15
Oh, please, they all hate that nanny state seat belt stuff Warpy Nov 2014 #17
Helen Chenoweth, conservative congresswoman, died from not wearing one. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2014 #18
Thank You for the example.. Stuart G Nov 2014 #19
Detroit fought safety when Ralph Nader wrote "Unsafe at any speed" about the Corvair. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2014 #21
I'd tell them to go mine coal with no regs. WinkyDink Nov 2014 #20
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