News about Mrs. Kerry

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Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry

Married Senator John Kerry in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an “interesting” paradox of conflicts. If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn’t hold a candle to his wife!

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60s when she met a “handsome”
young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told her his family was “in the food business.”

They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran the giant H.J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote a burning diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member (John Kerry).

Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun’s helicopter pilots were killed. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, having inherited Heinz’s $500 million fortune, she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal junior senator from Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her radicalization was set in motion. Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry to sign a prenuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may not have check writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it. A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup, mustard, and pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth.

So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz’s money?

Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz’s money?

  • They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he’s tried.

  • They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from “terrorist” states.

  • They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

  • They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

* They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the United States.

Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardless of your political views. If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the real Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra-rich fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine her laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the President of the United States. Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved invitation in hand.

Instead of deleting this, pass it on. Let everyone know these people are unfit to represent this great nation. The uninformed will never hear the truth from the press, who wants Kerry elected! Those who buy the Kerry facade …

Beware what you vote for. You may regret that you got it!

For a look at The Tides Foundation, visit:

http://www.activistcash.com/
organization_overview.cfm/oid/225

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if that is even 1% true it is frightening.

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What sort of crap is this?

Most people who make charitable donations do not go out and investigate the hell out of the potential recipients of their donations. I’d be willing to bet that Kerry’s wife didn’t know doodly squat about these “anti-American” activities, and that she wouldn’t have made those donations if she had.

Furthermore, none of this in any way supports the reasonably weird idea that Kerry or his wife “despise” entrepreneurial effort.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no intention of voting for Kerry, but come ON – if you’re going to attack someone’s credibility, you should at least be credible when you do it.

(I do agree that a candidate’s wife is an important consideration. “Tipper” Gore’s involvement with the PMRC robbed Al Gore of any support he might otherwise have received from me, ever.)

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Its all true. You will also noted that the Tides foundation has considerable connections to the liberal/anti war group the "the families of the victims of September 11th’ which has pushed for the 9/11 commission and which got all in a tizzy when GW used a picture of the twin towers in his campaign ad…but i am sure there was nothing political behind either of those operations…righttttttt.

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if you donate 50 bucks to some charity i’m sure you don’t do much research. When you donate millions of dollars you better believe you reasearch who you give the money to. And you support them and what they stand for. I think it would be crazy for someone to not know who they are giving millions to and should be cause for concern in and of itself.

Vegita ~ Prince of all Sayajins

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Yeah…she’s really creepy. I saw an interview with her Kerry, Edwards and Edwards’ wife and she really seemed like a real nut job. Between the weird European accent and some of her self-absorbed answers to some of the questions she seemed like a Bond villian or something. And right before the interview started she kept trying to hold John Kerry’s hands in some sort of weird position. You really have to see the clip to understand how weird it was.

I really wonder what she’s like every 28 days. Couldn’t be pretty.

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The average rich American does not donate to charity to support the work that charity does, but to avoid tax liability at the end of the year.

So, no. Research is not exhaustively done. The actual donation is often made to a charity selected more or less at random. The only real concern is to avoid donating to anything OBVIOUSLY embarrassing. This is normal.

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And the left gets called conspiracy theory nuts for coming up with things concerning Bush?

Sniff. sniff. Ah, the smell of hypocrisy is in the air…

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[quote]CDarklock wrote:
The average rich American does not donate to charity to support the work that charity does, but to avoid tax liability at the end of the year.

So, no. Research is not exhaustively done. The actual donation is often made to a charity selected more or less at random. The only real concern is to avoid donating to anything OBVIOUSLY embarrassing. This is normal. [/quote]

Wow, remind me to hire your estate planner.

If you seriously think this is true, you are delusional. the Mega wealthy have people whose entire job it is to look into places where they donate their money, and what they can do to avoid paying certain taxes. If you think they are tossing there money around for shits and giggles then clearly you dont understand what kind of planning and hard work goes into actually aquiring that kind of wealth.

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Wow, a European accent is creepy.

Well allrighty then…

BRAVO!

You think the 9/11 Commission was a bad idea? I guess we should have played it like they would have in the Soviet Union, maybe?

I don’t see how anybody can claim they love America, if they can’t stand hearing the truth.

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I saw the interview with Kerry, Edwards and their wives. Mrs Kerry did come off as sort of odd. Then again she is a woman of the world. Very well traveled and fabulously wealthy. I am sure that she is quite well intended.

The problem for her (and Mr Kerry) is this: how will Mrs Kerry play on main street? I have a feeling that the average american woman will not like what she sees in Mrs Kerry. I am thinking that she will not come off as well as say, Mrs Bush.

One more reason why President Bush will be reelected.

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Mrs Bush is a mouse. As far as I can tell, she hasn’t done anything with her time in the White House, except maybe bake cookies.

My opinion is that (love her or hate her) Hillary Clinton has raised the bar on what people expect from a first lady. The first lady has an opportunity to address some of the secondary issues that the president may be too busy for. I believe Elanore Roosevelt was the same, actually. Mrs Clinton probably was not the first.

I suspect that American women will respond favorably to Mrs Kerry, who is not only whip smart and well-spoken, she also doesn’t need to sit on the sidelines with her hands folded in her lap.

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Lumpy…You always make statements or call people names, but I love for you to back them up.I like to see proof, websites. To back up with what you say…

THere is allot of things about Mrs Kerry…Many of which are very disturbing:

The United States has never had a wealthy spouse overshadow its president. But Teresa Heinz Kerry leads and funds philanthropic foundations, and she sits on the board of directors of highly political nonprofit groups that receive her foundations’ support and that can advance or frustrate the policies of her husband, should he become President. That’s an unprecedented form of political power. More public scrutiny of Heinz Kerry’s public role is in order. While there is still time.

This is all spelled out on:

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3573

And this:
So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz’s money?

Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz’s money?

They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he’s tried.

They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from “terrorist” states.

They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with

terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

They support the “Barrio Warriors,” a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the United States.

Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardless of your political views.

And this is from a Democrat too

…"I was able to confirm most of this. Frontpagemag.com has this posted as public information. The most disturbing connection is with CAIR and Mrs. Kerry. CAIR is linked with Hamas and some 11 or so members and or supporters are no charged and or in jail. You can do a google search and find basically the same disturbing information. While not being a huge Bush fan I am a bit taken back that no one has brought this up about Mrs. Kerry sooner. kerry+cair - Google Search

Joe

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Lumpy,

No one elects the First Lady to do anything. Hillary wanted it to be a co-presidency of sorts. Bad idea no matter what your political stripe.

Also, I think Eleanor Roosevelt was a great woman. Did you know that she carried a firearm?

On to Mrs. Heinz-Kerry:

I find her off-putting. Her mannerism and style is awkward. I suspect, as Boston suggested, that it would be hard for Main Street to embrace her like they would Laura Bush.

That being said, my biggest problem with her is her finances. She can donate to any number of causes, that’s her right, but I want to know why her tax bill is so low.

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[quote]Lumpy wrote:
Wow, a European accent is creepy.

Well allrighty then…

You will also noted that the Tides foundation has considerable connections to the liberal/anti war group the "the families of the victims of September 11th’ which has pushed for the 9/11 commission and which got all in a tizzy when GW used a picture of the twin towers in his campaign ad.

BRAVO!

You think the 9/11 Commission was a bad idea? I guess we should have played it like they would have in the Soviet Union, maybe?

I don’t see how anybody can claim they love America, if they can’t stand hearing the truth.[/quote]

My comments have nothing to do with the 9/11 commission persay, but rather with the group, which is often times portrayed in the media as this saintly holier than thou group, who has a clearly partisan and political agenda.

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[quote]biltritewave wrote:
the Mega wealthy have people whose entire job it is to look into places where they donate their money, and what they can do to avoid paying certain taxes.[/quote]

That is exactly my point: she didn’t personally select the charity that received the money. Someone else did. So blaming her for it is completely ridiculous.

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Lumpy,

You think the typical american woman can relate better to Mrs Kerry than Mrs Bush? I would really have to disagree with that one.

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[quote]CDarklock wrote:
biltritewave wrote:
the Mega wealthy have people whose entire job it is to look into places where they donate their money, and what they can do to avoid paying certain taxes.

That is exactly my point: she didn’t personally select the charity that received the money. Someone else did. So blaming her for it is completely ridiculous.
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meaning those people spend the entire year looking for things to give money to, and then tell donors about them letting them pick. Only a fool would be donating millions of dollars without vetting the places first. Who does the vetting is possibly the job of a minion…who actually picks is almost always the job of the donor.

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[quote]Thunder said
That being said, my biggest problem with her is her finances. She can donate to any number of causes, that’s her right, but I want to know why her tax bill is so low.[/quote]

Geeze Louise, first you say the very wealthy are already taxed too heavily, now you’re complaining that Mrs Kerry doesn’t pay enough… talk about flip-flopping. LOL

From what I hear, Mrs Kerry is an inspirational speaker. I’ve never seen Laura Bush say anything I would call inspirational, but maybe I missed something.

Chuckmanjoe
I already saw the list of ‘outrageous’ charities that Mrs Kerry donates to. I’m assuming that the article listed the “very worst” in order to make it’s case. It’s pretty weak. You’ll have to do worse than the Barrio Warriors, the International Action Center (Ramsey Clark offered to defend Saddam Hussein? That takes some balls. Isn’t this kind of thing what we pride our democracy on? Or should we handle Hussein the way the old Soviet Unioun would have?)

“They support the Democratic Justice Fund” Your article then calls George Soros a hate monger. It’s obvious that this is a pure hatchet job. Where’d you find it?

George Soros is a philanthropist who gives to progressive causes. Instead of hording his money, he donates it to charities and causes he believes in. Now if you really really really hate progressive causes, you might (in turn) think Soros is bad… because he’s “for” what you’re “against”. But you’d have to be a bit of a nutcase to call him a hate monger, in my opinion. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’ve never even heard of George Soros before.

George Soros also has counterparts on the right, who are much worse.

Try doing a search on George Soros at www.Google.com

Then try doing a Google search on Richard Mellon Scaife.

Let me know who seems like a bigger hate-monger: Soros or Mellon Scaife.

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Lumpy,

“Geeze Louise, first you say the very wealthy are already taxed too heavily, now you’re complaining that Mrs Kerry doesn’t pay enough… talk about flip-flopping. LOL”

Yeah, that’s actually the point. It’s pretty hard to square advocation og her husband’s tax increase to make sure the rich are paying their ‘fair share’ while she’s moving money into tax shelters.

That’s an exaplanation worth hearing.