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MEDIA SUING TO OPEN KERRY'S SEALED DIVORCE PAPERS
AM 570 WMCA - NY ^ | 6.30.2004

Posted on 06/29/2004 8:31:10 AM PDT by KMC1

NEW YORK - Tomorrow night Dan Proft, President of Leader Media, and former advisor to former Senate Candidate Jack Ryan will appear on O'Reilly factor to discuss the push from the media to delve into sealed divorce records. Proft is among those now suing for access to John Kerry's sealed records. ABC News and Fox are both pursuing the developing story - that appears now to be destined to open the private files of the Democratic candidate for President.

(Excerpt) Read more at kmclive.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Massachusetts; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: divorce; divorcerecords; dontgothere; gopbacklash; juliathorne; kerry; kerryrecord; kerrysecrets; records
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1 posted on 06/29/2004 8:31:17 AM PDT by KMC1
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To: KMC1

Ouch. Payback is a b!tch.

Although, I think they should have let the media do it without prodding from any political figures.


2 posted on 06/29/2004 8:33:39 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: KMC1

This is really none of my business and I see no reason for the state to be opening records of private citizens against their wishes. Even idiot private citizens.


3 posted on 06/29/2004 8:34:01 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: KMC1

Despite the vile methods employed by the left, and the pragmatism of being just like them; this is wrong.


4 posted on 06/29/2004 8:34:27 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: KMC1

Personally, I don't like this. But I heard Napolitano saying on Fox that opening Ryan's records was the right decision, and he is quite conservative.

He said that anytime you file anything in court, you should expect it to be part of the public record, even sealed divorce cases. I find this strange, but I don't agree with lots of things judges decide.


5 posted on 06/29/2004 8:34:27 AM PDT by I still care
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To: KMC1

What is the media thinking? Don't they know this kind of invasive probing is only relevant when dealing with Alabama National Guard dental records?


6 posted on 06/29/2004 8:34:51 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: KMC1

Sealed records...I guess not. Kerry is an ass, but I don't think it takes unsealing private divorce records to see that.


7 posted on 06/29/2004 8:35:21 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: KMC1

I see a storm brewing in the path of the S. S. Kerry.


8 posted on 06/29/2004 8:36:15 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: KMC1

Mrs. Ryan

9 posted on 06/29/2004 8:36:39 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: KMC1
Recent precedence has been set. Ha!
10 posted on 06/29/2004 8:36:40 AM PDT by demlosers
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To: KMC1

A judge in Boston? You have to be kidding..


11 posted on 06/29/2004 8:37:22 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: jwalsh07
The day you go the state for formal recognition of your marriage (and/or formal recognition of the end of your marriage) is the day you lose any claim on protection of your privacy.

Think about it: The one good thing about Massachusetts' recognition of "gay marriage" is that we may one day have the pleasure of suing to have Barney Franks' divorce records unsealed.

12 posted on 06/29/2004 8:37:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: jwalsh07

If Ryan's records were their business, this is our business. Fire with fire. Dirty bastards ruin Ryan and now they want to get sanctimonious.


13 posted on 06/29/2004 8:38:07 AM PDT by RightthinkinAmerican (Democrats aren't playing with a full deck, they only use the race cards.)
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To: KMC1

Remember this is the People's Republic of Massachusetts, the feudal lands and serfs of the Kennedys. The courts there are ,shall we say, politically oriented. Kerry's records will never be opened up before the election. Now if it were a Republican candidate, the records would be "outed" to the media before the first phone call from a reporter was finished.


14 posted on 06/29/2004 8:38:37 AM PDT by JeeperFreeper
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To: jwalsh07
This is really none of my business and I see no reason for the state to be opening records of private citizens against their wishes. Even idiot private citizens.

The bigger question is why were the record sealed in the first place? Except for matters dealing with child custody, in most states divorce records are open to the public unless sealed by the court for compelling reasons.

15 posted on 06/29/2004 8:38:43 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: I still care

Napolitano is not conservative.


16 posted on 06/29/2004 8:38:58 AM PDT by Eva
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To: laotzu

That's what they want you to think, nopw that they've ruined our guy by the same means, they can talk about how wrong it is. Their mission is already accomplished.


17 posted on 06/29/2004 8:39:50 AM PDT by RightthinkinAmerican (Democrats aren't playing with a full deck, they only use the race cards.)
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To: demlosers
Kerry divorce papers...hmmmm...why are they sealed?

Posted on 06/28/2004 12:01:02 AM PDT by lizmac

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JUNE 27, 2004 20:34:08 ET XXXXX

CHASE ON FOR SEALED KERRY DIVORCE DOCUMENTS; PAPER FRENZY AFTER ILLINOIS SENATE RACE RELEASE

After last week's front page headlines over ugly unsealed divorce records in the Republican Illinois senate race, media outlets now face a dilemma: What to do about Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry's sealed divorce records!

The race is on in political and media circles to gauge the import of Kerry's sealed July 25, 1988 divorce from his first wife, Julia Stimson Thorne.


18 posted on 06/29/2004 8:39:53 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: KMC1

Hillary needs them for the election.


19 posted on 06/29/2004 8:39:55 AM PDT by bmwcyle (<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: KMC1

I'd rather they forced Tay Raise Ahhh to release her tax returns in full...but this will do....(grin)

Lets see how much Senator Gigilo made off of that....


20 posted on 06/29/2004 8:40:29 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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