HELEN CHENOWETH IS DEAD

Probably not many DWT readers will remember Helen Chenoweth, the Aryan Nations' congressman first elected in 1994. Yes, a Helen, would normally be referred to as a congresswoman but Chenoweth was far from normal-- the Mean Jean Schmidt-cum-Ann Coulter of her day-- and she insisted on being addressed as "congressman." Anyway, she retired after 3 tumultuous terms-- probably because after she defended the Oklahoma City bombers (and militias in general) she knew she was unlikely to be re-elected... even in Idaho.

Anyway she died in a car accident near Tonopah Nevada this morning, thrown from a jeep, not wearing a seat belt.

Before running for office she was a lobbyist. When she was in Congress she acted as a lobbyist not just for right-wing militia groups but also for Slobodan Milosevic. She was a major Clinton basher and was hysterical about his "affair" with Monica Lewisnsky, although finally shut up when her own slutty, adulterous past was brought up.
Among the most memorable moments in her wretched fanatical career: she famously groused that "It's the white Anglo-Saxon male that's endangered," making her point by serving endangered species of salmon for dinner. She wasn't exactly a conservationist, calling environmentalists "Marxists." And she was calling for selling off the National Parks even before Dirty Dick Pombo. As far as I know, she was the first congressperson to complain about mysterious black government helicopters bothering people.