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MILWAUKEE ) - Teresa Heinz Kerry, the outspoken wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, pulled no punches on Monday in telling a rally what she thought of the Bush administration -- hell. And later, discussing the war in Iraq, Heinz Kerry subtly questioned Republican President Bush's intellect, saying: "It's vital for anyone with intelligence to acknowledge mistakes and change positions -- hello." When a Bush supporter with a bullhorn shouted "four more years" from the back of a large crowd packed into a downtown Milwaukee park, Heinz Kerry, who was introducing her husband, responded: "They want four more years...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, the morning after.BostonWITH THE EXCEPTION of Jimmy Carter, Teresa Heinz Kerry probably got the worst reviews of any prime-time speaker at the Democratic convention. Will Saletan of Slate criticized her for talking about her late husband John Heinz, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Andrew Sullivan called her speech "condescending, unnecessary, and pointless." Off-the-record comments were even more devastating. And who can blame reporters for mocking a speech that featured lines like this: "With John Kerry as president, global climate change and other threats to the health of our planet will begin to be reversed"?Journalists weren't the only...

BOSTON - "How do you solve a problem like Tere-zah?" All week I've been whistling the tune from "The Sound of Music," mentally substituting the name Teresa for Maria. "How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you find a word that means Teresa? A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the-wisp! A clown!" Not that Mrs. Kerry is any of the above - far from it - but finding the right word to describe this unconventional potential first lady has spinmeisters and wordsmiths politely stumped. Democrats' protests to the contrary, she is a bit of a problem for the...

I am curious about Mrs. Kerry's citizenship. Is she a citizen of Mozambique as well as a citizen of America? Does anyone know off the top of their head? Thanks.

Excerpt - BOSTON -- Teresa Heinz Kerry told this editor to "shove it" yesterday moments after she addressed the Pennsylvania delegation to the Democratic National Convention here. [snip] A review of an audiotape recording made by Patriot-News political reporter Peter DeCoursey shows that Heinz Kerry used the term "un-American traits." [snip] Said Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editor Frank L. Craig: "Colin McNickle did just what any good reporter does -- he asked questions. The tape of her speech shows she used the word 'un-American,' even though she denied it. It was a legitimate question for McNickle to ask. It is unfortunate that...

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"You mentioned un-American ... what did you mean?" McNickle asked. "I didn't say that," Heinz Kerry responded heatedly three times. Shove-It!!! Place your vote --- Was Teresa's comment Appropriate or Inappropriate GO TO THIS LINK and VOTE http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/politics/3576908/detail.html

Undecided about whom to vote for for president? Simple. Just place a mental image of Laura Bush alongside that of Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz-Kerry. Then ask yourself: Do you really want to trade in America's first lady?

... KING: So you don't label yourself, Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal. HEINZ KERRY: No. I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm -- as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical. And so was my late husband. And so, the transition doesn't come from anything that I have to change inside, it's more -- mind you, I did not change my party until two years ago -- a year-and-a-half ago. KING: Wait a minute, you remained... HEINZ KERRY: A Republican until a year-and-a-half ago,...

Heinz Kerry Recalls Death of First Husband By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press Writer DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, who inherited a vast family fortune and heads a billion-dollar foundation, said Tuesday she would give up the money to have her first husband back. "It was a very sad day when that happened," Heinz Kerry said, speaking of Sen. John Heinz, heir to the Heinz food fortune, who was killed in a 1991 plane crash. "I'd rather have my husband alive than that money." Heinz Kerry, a philanthropist now married to Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the...

BOSTON - You have heard her say about herself - that she is sexy. Prrrrr. You've heard her insist on being referred to as African American. She has funded media efforts that have gone such towards noble deeds like labeling the highly dedicated Pat Tillman "DUMB JOCK" and "BABY KILLER"... Well in tomorrow's New York Times it is being reported that the Mrs. "who doesn't like to be called Kerry" is scheduled to give a prime time speech among other responsibilities.

The line on Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress of the Heinz ketchup fortune and wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is that she's a woman of principle, a hear-me-roar dame who tells it like it is. Well, that's her line, anyway. "At my age I'm entitled to have strong beliefs," the 65-year-old recently told Vogue. "I'd be a ninny if I didn't." She's not alone in this estimation. Democrats desperate to jumpstart her husband's lackluster presidential campaign have also embraced Heinz Kerry's flinty frankness. Their hope is that she'll spark that part of the electorate cool to Kerry but...

WASHINGTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry says anger, not ideology, prompted her to become a Democrat. The wife of Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says her emotion stemmed from the way the Republican Party, to which she had pledged allegiance, treated Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia in 2002. Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm as an Army captain during the Vietnam War, lost his re-election bid in a bitter campaign against then-Rep. Saxby Chambliss. The GOP had raised questions about Cleland's patriotism because of his position on legislation to create the...

Heinz Kerry Tells Why She Joined Democrats By EMILY FREDRIX, AP WASHINGTON (June 14) - Teresa Heinz Kerry says anger, not ideology, prompted her to become a Democrat. The wife of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says her emotion stemmed from the way the Republican Party, to which she had pledged allegiance, treated Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia in 2002.Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm as an Army captain during the Vietnam War, lost his re-election bid in a bitter campaign against then-Rep. Saxby Chambliss. The GOP had raised questions about Cleland's patriotism because...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - When the chairwoman of the $1.3 billion Heinz Endowments signs a document, she uses what she calls her "Pittsburgh name": Teresa Heinz. Her surname is everywhere in the Steel City. A large bottle of ketchup reading "Heinz" hovers over the North Side headquarters of the H.J. Heinz Co. The Pittsburgh Steelers play at Heinz Field and the symphony plays at Heinz Hall. Schoolchildren tour the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, named after her late husband. Teresa Heinz married John Heinz in Pittsburgh, raised their three sons here, and mourned her husband at the University of...

Please FREEP my petition demanding Teresa Heinz Kerry release her 2003 tax return! I plan on altering it when I take it down to demand prior returns as well. Whether this works or not is irrelevant-we want to be a thorn in their sides! I also think it is important to show how sleazy and sneaky the Kerry camp is (not that it isn't abundantly obvious). Please help a fellow FREEPER out! Also, check out the stupid DU'ers who signed my petition. They are pathetically stupid!

Press Release Source: Newsweek NEWSWEEK COVER: Teresa - Is John Kerry's Heiress Wife a Loose Cannon-Or Crazy Like a Fox? Sunday April 25, 11:10 am ET Says She Doesn't View Abortion 'As Just a Nothing. It Is Stopping the Process of Life' On Releasing Her Tax Returns: 'People Don't Understand Family Trusts, But I Hate to Put What's My Kids' Out There' # NEW YORK, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In the current issue of Newsweek, Teresa Heinz Kerry tells Contributing Editor Melinda Henneberger: "I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic frontrunner John F. Kerry, refuses to release her tax return to the general public. What is Ms. Heinz Kerry hiding? I find the cloak of secrecy that Ms. Heinz Kerry and her husband have wrapped around their affairs (e.g., Mr. Kerry’s military records) quite troubling. If they can not be forthright and candid with the American public now, during the campaign, one could only image what they would hide from the nation if elected. This is an issue of great concern. There is no question the Mr. Kerry’s and Ms. Heinz Kerry’s financial affairs...

The Democrat candidate's spouse refuses to disclose tax returns. Republicans seize the issue, asking what the spouse is hiding. The New York Times calls for full disclosure. Distracted by the controversy, the candidate is on the defensive. The spouse eventually relents and agrees to release five years' worth of tax returns, but only after the candidate's campaign has been damaged. Sound familiar? Yes, John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, has refused to make her tax returns public, and her decision has caused some controversy. But she's not the spouse in the example above. That would be John A. Zaccaro, husband...

<p>The law says that wives can file separate tax returns, but the culture says they cannot have lives separate from the men they marry.</p> <p>No sooner had Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, rightly released his own tax returns, than political rivals of the Massachusetts Democrat began demanding that his wife release hers.</p>

John Kerry is the Senate's most liberal member. But his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, looks to be even farther left, judging from her charitable giving. Over the years, she has poured nearly $6 million into the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation, a kind of front philanthropy, founded by California activist Drummond Pike in 1976, that channels donations to left-wing causes in ways that make the original funders hard to trace directly. The Tides Foundation gives to causes to the left - sometimes way to the left - of the Democratic mainstream. It has been a big supporter (to the tune of...

Friday, April 16, 2004 9:14 a.m. EDT Testy Teresa Tirade: I Can't Believe I Came to America It didn't take long for the rigors of the campaign trail to sour first lady-in-waiting Teresa Heinz, who fumed yesterday that she "can't believe" she moved to America and married an American politician. "I can't believe my family left Africa and came to this country," Heinz Kerry complained to the New York Post's Cindy Adams. "I can't believe I ever even married an American." "A politician's wife has a hard life," she said. "To become more of a 'thing' and less of a...

The Kerry-Heinz's are going to be having a "little talk" shortly. Seems Teresa is destroying the environment with her SUV. It also appears John doesn't know about the new car in the family (wonder how many that makes?) Barely a month ago on vacation Gigolo John, that fearless environmental crusader, who proudly stated that the environmental fight "is so much a part of who I am" didn't know that wifey is driving around in a gas-guzzling, ozone-destroying SUV . (We'll get to her statement that she "can't believe she moved to America" or "married an American" at another time.)What really...

9/11 Families Money Trail Lead to Kerry  There is financial link between Teresa Heinz Kerry and 9/11 families.  There is a much greater financial network that what I am presenting in this post. If you are interested, I keep people up-to-date.  I plan to put this on a website so everyone can see my research.   Here are the financial links: John Kerry – married to Teresa Heinz Kerry   Teresa Heinz Kerry – Chairperson, Howard Heinz Endowment (HHE) Teresa Heinz Kerry – Chairperson and CEO, Heinz Family Foundation (HFF) Teresa Heinz Kerry – Director, Vira I. Heinz Endowment (VHE) HHE,...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Neither the Washington, DC Police Department nor the Secret Service is commenting on the recent protest demonstration at the home of presidential advisor Karl Rove. Several hundred protesters converged on Rove's house two Sundays ago, banging on the windows and demanding a meeting. Only after Rove agreed to meet with a few of the group's leaders did the angry mob board the school buses that brought them to the quiet neighborhood. National People's Action (NPA), an activist group whose advocacy includes rights for illegal immigrants, organized the rally to demand presidential support for the Development, Relief...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story...   Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here     Friday, March 12, 2004 3:48 p.m. EST Blacks React to Heinz Kerry's 'African American' Claim Blacks have a mixed reaction to Teresa Heinz Kerry's claim that she's "African American," at least according to an informal survey conducted this week by WMCA-NY radio host Kevin McCullough. On Tuesday McCullough posed the question to his black listeners, asking if it was appropriate for the Mozambique-born first lady wannabe to describe herself using the term, which is universally interpreted...

"MY SON WAS MURDERED ..." Among those angered was Bob McIlvaine, who lost his son Bobby when hijacked planes destroyed the Twin Towers. "My son was murdered on September 11th," he said. "To argue that using footage of the wreckage of the towers to further someone's political career is 'tasteful' really needs to be rejected outright, and I condemn it." The latest anti-Bush volleys came at a news conference held by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Other victims' relatives said that group was politicizing the issue and had its own political agenda.

The media has bombarded us with these stories about the 9/11 families' dismay at the Bush ads. But who are these people? After watching them on Today, Hardball, Fox, etc. etc. etc., I decided to do a little snooping. I didn't have the names of those on TV, so I went with news articles on the web. This is probably not news to you, but they're bleeding heart, anti war, peace protesters. If the press weren't so biased they would be calling them the "Bush Haters". What I found is below:

This is the best they got?KerryIt's Vietnam all over again, A quagmire I tell you a quagmire! My vote for the war was so you couldn't go to war! How dare you go to the UN with promises instead of empty rhetoric! Brent Scowcroft and Jim Baker promised me (or someone I know) that you were only kidding! You misled us by telling us what you were going to do, and had the balls to actually do it!! No politician does that you liar!! W, I went to Vietnam, I served in Vietnam, We lost in Vietnam, and Mr. Bush,...

U.S. Foundations Support Environmental Activists on the World Stageby Ivan Osorio Summary:Nongovernmental organizations (NGO), especially environmental, play an increasingly important role in international politics. With the financial backing of major U.S. philanthropies, such as the Ford Foundation, environmental activists use United Nations forums and other international meetings to influence global trade and environmental policy. View the full version in PDF Format Organization(s) featured in this itemEarthJustice Legal Defense FundFriends of the EarthGreenpeace FundGreenpeace InternationalGreenpeace, Inc.Ford FoundationRockefeller Brothers FundPew Charitable TrustsCharles Stewart Mott FoundationJohn D. & Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationTurner Foundation

Money. Money is to the Tides Foundation and Center what water is to the tide. You can’t be sure from what source any part comes. You can’t be sure where any part goes. But it can knock you off your feet and pull you down. And there is an ocean of it.  The Tides Foundation and its offspring, the Tides Center, effectively “launder” donor dollars when they give to other nonprofits. The San Francisco-based Foundation receives donations from individuals and foundations and then channels them to activist groups. The result is that the original donor can’t be linked to...

I am looking for articles on the left wing activism of the Heinz Foundation and my google searches have been pretty unsuccessful so far. Is anyone aware of articles on this or source? Thanks! Patrick

DELANO -- Teresa Heinz Kerry promised Tuesday that her husband, if elected president, would work to establish universal health care for children and create an "earned legalization" program for immigrants. The wife of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, considered the front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary, spoke Tuesday night at the United Farm Workers' Forty Acres compound in Delano. Her appearance was part of the couple's campaign through the state in advance of the March 2 primary vote. Kerry, 65, took care to highlight differences between her husband's politics and those of President Bush -- especially in regard to immigrants and...

A Washington-based non-profit group called Americans for Gun Safety claims to take the middle ground on gun ownership. I question its neutrality. As a hunter, target-shooter and gun owner, I've been courted in the past by groups that claimed common-sense positions on firearms. These champions of "responsible use" recruit membership and money from both sides but typically lean hard to one side. At its Web site, AGS says it is "bringing a new voice to the debate over guns and gun safety, which for too long has been dominated by the far left and far right. Through legislative measures and...

"Die Amerikaner wollen eine Frau, die authentisch ist" In einer Bibliothek in Fairfax, Virginia, empfängt sie den stern zum Gespräch. Sie trägt einen Cashmere-Schal und einen Blazer von Chanel, und wenn sie die Sonnenbrille über ihr Haar schiebt, erinnert das ein bisschen an Jackie O. Freuen Sie sich darauf, First Lady zu sein? "Nein", sagt sie, "ich werde weiter meine Arbeit machen." Aber erwarten die Amerikaner nicht eine brave, opferwillige First Lady wie Laura Bush? "Nein, die Amerikaner wollen eine Frau, die authentisch ist." Sie erzählt von ihrem Einsatz für alternative Energien und die Rechte der Frauen. Sie erzählt aus...

<p>CHICAGO - Pittsburgh is home to a new liberal funding organization that lists its priorities as the local environment, land use and "sustainability." However, its affiliations raise questions about its real purpose. Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations -- the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment-- chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, heir to the Heinz food company fortune and wife of Democrat presidential contender Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.</p>

Teresa Heinz Kerry, who once warned her first husband: "If you ever get something [from an extra-marital affair], I'll maim you. I won't kill you. I'll maim you

With Matt Drudge’s recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam “brothers,” the senator’s presidential campaign may depend more than ever on the actions of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. While the mainstream media has thus far overlooked the alleged infidelity, media outlets have also overlooked a far more important story: The former Mrs. John Heinz is also in bed – financially – with the radical Left. Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides...

CORBIS BETTMAN CANDID CONSORT: Teresa with Kerry Teresa on the Stump Mrs. Kerry is worth a fortune, but her real value to the campaign is her bluntness By KAREN TUMULTY Posted Sunday, February 1, 2004Santa Fe, N.M., has its share of hangouts for the megarich. The Guadalajara Grill, a strip-mall café decorated with balloons in the shape of beer bottles, isn't one of them. But places like that are part of the territory if your husband is running for President. That is how Teresa Heinz Kerry, conservatively estimated to be worth $500 million or so, happened to find herself...

It's only a matter of time before we witness another Howard Dean Moment in the Democratic presidential race -- but not, I predict, from any of the Democratic presidential candidates. Skulking in the campaign background is a ticking time bombette with a volatile temper and acid tongue who makes Dean look like Mr. Rogers on Prozac. She's the wife of front-runner Sen. John Kerry, Teresa Heinz. Formerly known as Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira, the hot-headed widow of the late Pennsylvania GOP Sen. John Heinz is self-aggrandizingly known among her wealthy liberal friends and fellow environmental radicals as "Saint Teresa" (and...

For Senator John Kerry, the five-story red brick house in the exclusive Beacon Hill section of Boston, with its climbing wisteria, antique furnishings and rooftop deck, offers a place of respite from his frenetic campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president. Now the house, worth perhaps $10 million, may offer Mr. Kerry something else: a quick way to get a loan to inject money that could jump-start his campaign. Two weeks ago, when Mr. Kerry became the second Democratic candidate to forgo public financing in the primaries, he said he was doing so reluctantly because of new rules being followed...

Today: June 04, 2003 at 12:12:10 PDT Wife's Fortune Out for Kerry's Campaign By SHARON THEIMER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry has concluded that federal law bars him from tapping any of his wife's vast Heinz investment fortune for his presidential campaign, removing an arsenal of cash that some Democrats hoped he could use to counter President Bush's fund-raising prowess. Teresa Heinz Kerry's holdings have been estimated at $550 million or more, putting her among the 400 richest Americans on Forbes magazine's list last year. Federal campaign law stipulates that assets solely under the control of Heinz Kerry,...

On his MSNBC program this evening, Chris Matthews called Teresa Heinz Kerry "a Martha Mitchell who speaks six languages."