AGENDA 21 RADIO

BY PAUL PRESTON

New California State Chairwoman and International Chess Master Ruth Haring sent a cease and desist letter to the Los Angeles Times in response what she called a misogynist article slurring rural California women as “gun-toting, hard-drinking white blonde bimbos.”

Ms. Haring stated that after America’s fourth largest newspaper has supposedly championed brave urban women joining the “#metoo” movement to expose misogyny, it is the height of hypocrisy for the Los Angeles Times to run a lead article titled ‘In California’s rural, conservative north, there are big dreams for cleaving the state’ that portrays rural women as blond hicks in low-cut dresses hoisting “whiskey and shotguns.”

Ruth Inez Haring is no stranger to conquering tough challenges in male dominated environments. She was selected a record 5-times as a team member to represent the United States of America in the Chess Olympiad and as the sole female board member was elected President of the US Chess Federation. Ms. Haring also found time, despite Silicon Valley’s legendary “bro culture,” to build an IBM program management career.

Appalled at the LA Times article that she called “mean and misogynist,” Haring’s cease and desist demand letter was sent to Hailey Branson-Potts as the Metro Reporter for the Los Angeles Times and addressed to letters@latimes.com.

Haring wrote that as a Los Angeles Times Metro reporter, a writer may not understand “California needs to encourage all youth to be competitive in the 21st Century. She emphasized that attitudes and expectations of rural young women can be undermined by lack of good role models and unfair and biased media coverage. Haring added:

“I personally have a long record of promoting and creating new opportunities for women and girls in Chess, which highly effective for encouraging more women to focus on careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).”

Ms. Haring in her role as Chair of the New California State Movement, she is attempting to communicate to the LA Times the concerns and aspirations of 18 million rural Californians that are captive to the policies often fomented in Los Angeles urban elites that often “kill our small businesses and handicap our ranchers and farmers.”

New California sees a future with approximately 22 million residents in 13 urban and coastal counties of California would still represent America’s third largest state. The 45 mostly rural counties that will form the State of New California would be America’s 5^th largest state. Conservatives, progressives and independents could all benefit from richer and more vibrant economies.

Ms. Haring demanded the Los Angeles Times: 1) Issue an apology for misogyny and bigotry; 2) Give her the right to respond in an editorial; and 3) Commit the Los Angeles Times to honor its published Ethics Guidelines for Fairness, which state:

“It requires us to recognize our own biases and stand apart from them. It also requires us to examine the ideological environment in which we work, for the biases of our sources, our colleagues and our communities can distort our sense of objectivity.”