Republican Party Heroes

“ewker wouldn't agree that fruitcake is a bad gift. that guy pounds out the miles using that stuff like nuclear rocket fuel.”

“I think fruitcake has to grow on you.
I hated fruitcake as a child, now I love it.”

“Ah, found the thread. Hendricks sounds like a good and hard working man. He starts out driving his truck around looking for work and ends up remaking the economy of his chosen home city.

His death has saddened many in Beloit, where Hendricks has been the once-struggling city's key benefactor - bringing in companies, creating jobs, fostering the arts and restoring abandoned industrial buildings.

"It's almost a matter of what hasn't he done," said Ron Nief, public affairs director at Beloit College and a friend of Hendricks. "I think probably the most important thing he's done for Beloit is inspire."

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"It's kind of unusual to have a champion of the stature of a Ken Hendricks," Beloit city manager Larry Arft said. "Communities do have their leading citizens who support philanthropy and the arts in those communities, but this was kind of an extraordinary relationship."

Sounds like the kind of guy either party would want as a hero.”