Offended by launch of Spanish language website, Hanska's resident hater rejects Heritage

Posting on the Confederate Americans for Secure Borders elist last week, Ruthie Hendrycks, who does business under the assumed name Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform (MinnSIR) has called for her followers to decide whether they wish to be removed from the mailing lists of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation.

She shared her rejection email with the list:

My removal from Heritage Foundation

I sent this to a few Patriots last night and am forwarding to all now

You decide - what your thoughts are on the matter

my short email follows

RE: Concerning this action.................

Meanwhile, the GOP-leaning Heritage Foundation will soon unveil a website called Libertad.org (Spanish for "liberty").

Erin Bender

staff@... [redacted by Bluestem]

website www.heritage.org

Please remove my following email addresses from your database immediately I am proud on the English language, and believe America – [sic] s strength is in unity not in division - this decision by Heritage Foundation DOES NOT garner my support and I will have no further involvement with your organization – [sic] including the forwarding of your educational material etc.

In 2006, Hendrycks told a Star Tribune reporter that a traumatic shopping event helped spur her to founding MinnSIR:

There were little things, too, such as when she went to the store to buy her hair coloring and the writing on the box was in Spanish.

"I think our sovereignty in the U.S. is at risk,'' she charged. [Jean Hopfensperger,"Standing firm in opposition to illegals. . .," Mpls. Star Tribune, April 28, 2006, Nexis All News database, accessed January 30, 2011]

That section of Preference and Excellence by L'Oréal Paris in the local Target always causes me to have the fantods, too--mostly because the store never seems to stock enough Dark Auburn, in whatever language.

I'm equally disturbed by preposition choice errors like being "proud on the English language" on the part of people whose first language is English. One wonders what Hendrycks learned about English composition while studying at LaCrosse University. Or maybe not.

MinnSIR's castigation of the Heritage Foundation ranks right up there with its call to boycott the Marine Corps. Clayton Schoolcraft has more Ruthie goodness in a YouTube produced following MinnSIR's famous Tea Party Against Amnesty in November 2009.

Hendrycks apparently didn't get the memo from Norm Coleman's American Action Network, which calls for promoting Hispanic Leadership, after fueling independent expenditures supportive of anti-immigrant, pro-SB1070 Congressional candidates. Perhaps such slickness is beyond the frozen shores of Lake Hanska.

Photo: A little Ruthie Hendrycks cheescake, served with a generous topping of Latino loathing.

Comments

[Phoenix Woman]

Oooh ooh ooooh! Is she also one of the "values voters" boycotting CPAC because GOProud is there? (You know, GOProud, the group created because they didn't think the gays in the Log Cabin Republicans were conservative enough?)

One of the things overlooked in the last election was just how much of a drag the far right was on the GOP's results. Three out of four Tea Party candidates went down in flames in the House, and the Senate only had a 50% success rate. If not for the teabaggers (who are Birchers by another name -- the Koch brothers' daddy Fred was a founding member) the Republicans would control both Houses of the US Congress.

We are fast approaching the point where, even with FOX and FOX-lite brainwashing of the populace, it's soon going to be impossible for someone to win both a Republican party nomination and a general election above the congressional-district level. The state leges will be easier pickings, but anything requiring statewide voting (and thus the input of non-megachurch areas) dooms the GOP.

[Phoenix Woman]

Oh, yes: Just to be clear, I specified "non-megachurch" so as to include rural and urban areas, which unlike the white-flight-dominated exurbs seem to be relatively free of the Mac Hammond virus.

[Phoenix Woman]

By the way, guess who's been forced to choose between his blogging gig -- where he is known to make fun of Native Americans -- and his day job, where he's supposed to be representing them in court? http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2011/01/30/a-man-called-hubris/

Let's hope that Mirengoff didn't defraud his clients the way Jack Abramoff did: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/77951-man-who-blew-the-whistle-on-abramoff-tells-his-story