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Helen Chenoweth-Hage

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U.S. Congressman

The Resume

    (January 27, 1938-October 2, 2006)
    Born in Topeka, Kansas
    Birth name was Helen Palmer
    US Representative from Idaho (1995-January 2001)
    Republican
    Died when the car she was riding in overturned

Why she might be annoying:

    She said Yellowstone National Park should be opened to hunters.
    She said 'The only endangered species is the white Christian landowning male.'
    She took new-world-order/UN-black-helicopter conspiracy theories seriously.
    After the Oklahoma City bombing, she scolded Congress for not trying to understand anti-government activists.
    After she urged President Clinton to resign over his adultery, she admitted that she had had an affair with a married man.
    At the time of her death, she was breaking the law by not wearing a seatbelt and by holding her grandson in her lap rather than placing him in a child safety seat.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Before going into politics, she ran a physician recruitment firm that found doctors for under served communities.
    She pledged to serve only three terms, and unlike many Representatives, she honored her promise.
    When she was selected for a hand search at the Boise Airport, she demanded to see a copy of the regulation allowing Homeland Security to search her without cause. When the request was denied, she made the 300-mile trip by rental car instead (2003).
    Afterward, she said, 'Our borders are wide open and yet they're shaking down a 66-year-old grandmother they greeted by name.'
    Her grandson suffered only minor injuries.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 20 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 118 Votes: 52.54% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 38 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 118 Votes: 62.71% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 107 Votes: 53.27% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 194 Votes: 57.73% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 78 Votes: 78.21% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 66 Votes: 48.48% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 206 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 70 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 144 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 83 Votes: 74.70% Annoying