DRUDGE: KERRY MYSTERY WOMAN DATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE CHIEF

2/16/2004 | Drudge

[mtrott]

Drudge just put this up.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI FEB 16, 2004 14:05:38 ET XXXXX

KERRY MYSTERY WOMAN DATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE CHIEF

**Exclusive**

A woman at the center of John Kerry intrigue dated longtime Kerry Finance Director Peter Maroney, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

When pressed by media outlets in recent week, the Kerry campaign confirmed the relationship, according to top sources.

Alex Polier on Monday denied "Internet and tabloid rumors relating to me and Senator John Kerry."

Rumors swirling around Polier ignited a behind-the-scenes campaign drama.

As first reported in this space, a serious investigation of the woman and the nature of her relationship with Sen. John Kerry has been underway at TIME magazine, ABC NEWS, the WASHINGTON POST, THE HILL and the ASSOCIATED PRESS, where the woman in question once worked.

TIME magazine's Tim Burger and ABC NEWS have developed intriguing elements to the case, sources reveal.

She would joke that she was dating the next president of the United States, says a source.

Polier's flippant remarks and flirtatious manner, according to friends, fueled the intrigue.

In an off-the-record conversation with a dozen reporters earlier this week, General Wesley Clark plainly stated: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." [Three reporters in attendance confirm Clark made the startling comments. "This guy is going to blow up. Have you seen the NATIONAL ENQUIRER story" [on Kerry's womanizing].

The Kerry commotion is the key reason why Dean reversed his decision to drop out of the race after Wisconsin, campaign sources said.

Developing...

[mewzilla]

Really? Even a pol who hadn't cheated on his wife? I say we should start testing your hypothesis.

[Bluntpoint]

Life ain't fair. But in the end, we all get the same sheet pulled over us.

[Beck_isright]

AHA! Found it.

NY Post Page Six, December 31, 2003

December 31, 2003 -- WHICH silicone-enhanced celebrity has a nasty crystal-meth habit? After a glitzy party several weeks ago, she went to her favorite transsexuals' den of iniquity downtown and snorted crank all night long . . . WHICH dashing Democratic presidential candidate used to be infamous for trying to steal other guys' girlfriends? The lusty lawmaker had a habit of doggedly pursuing attractive young women after meeting them at D.C. dinner parties even if they were already spoken for.

DRUDGE, Feb 16, 2004:

KERRY MYSTERY WOMAN DATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE CHIEF

Damn good work!!!!!!!!!! That story should open up some more inquiring minds. This could be a dynamite story when it finally hits the fan.

[Bluntpoint]

Who says Kerry did not cheat on his wife? But don't get all perturbed that it was not this one.

Be patient. Bimbos be bubbling before you know it.

[Bluntpoint]

used to be infamous

[mewzilla]

I don't know that this wasn't the one. And obfuscation perturbs me.

[Bluntpoint]

Obfuscation = A Drudge "Developing" Headline

[GRANGER]

If money changed hands to get the parents to say they will now vote for Kerry, we have a FELONY.

[wildbill]

Does everyone know what the meaning of "a beard" is in this situation?

A "beard" is a trusted aide who ostensibly is dating the woman in questions while the boss goes along as a third person. In case of any questions, the boss is just along for the ride, not a date.

[masadaman]

Actually not Dean as in Dean Witter but Dean as in senior exec with Reynolds & Co. acquired by Dean Witter.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Sounds like Drudge is gettting played. His credibility is on the line. Not mine, not yours, not Republicans. Just his.

All Drudge did was report that an investigation was underway in the lamestream media regarding Kerry and this young woman. I fail to see how his credibility is damaged regardless of the outcome of the investigation(s) or whether or not the results are disclosed. IMO, where there's smoke, there's fire, as the old saying goes. Kerry either hit on her or worse, had a little fling. But it appears as though the coverup (helped with lots of payola) will probably succeed.

[Yaelle]

"Among those attending the session were Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan, chief fund-raiser Peter Maroney, scheduler Karen Hinck, communications director Chris Lehane, media consultants Jim Margolis and Michael Donilon, Boston political consultants Chuck Campion, John Marttila, and Michael Whouley, and Cameron Kerry, a Boston lawyer who is the senator's brother."

Kerry: "OK, everyone who has NOT banged Alex please raise your hand. Let's not always see the same hand, Karen. Now draw straws, everybody.... Here you go... Aha! You drew the short one, Peter... We will set you up as the one she slept with. Tell your wife to chop onions ALL DAY LONG. Now let's get out there and play our parts! GOOOOOOOO Kerry. GOOOOOO Kerry."

[Bluntpoint]

And if nothing happened here we have a damn shame. So many folks here are going to have to wait for the next Kerry scandal and the wait may kill some of us.

[Bluntpoint]

This felony, of which you speak, are you talking about some breach of the campaign fiance law?

[archy]

I think we need to find out 100% if she did or did not work for Kerry.

I think it would be very useful to find out if she was an intern not with the Kerry campaign, but with a newspaper or magazine as a summer intern. Particularly while she was a student at Clark University in Worchester, Mass, where Kerry maintains an office.

From a Philadelphia newspaper account, as reported by FReeper Jimbo123:

"Alexandra Polier, a tall blonde known to friends as Alex, went on from Malvern to Clark University in Worcester, Mass., where she earned a degree in 2000 with a double major in philosophy and government. She then studied journalism at the prestigious Columbia Journalism School in New York, and landed a job with the Associated Press, working for a time for the New York bureau."

[Solson]

thanks for the correction.

[mabelkitty]

Diddle an intern, diddle with my income - it's all the same.

[Bluntpoint]

Some times a wad of bills looks pretty sexy, but, if I had to choose, I would diddle the intern.

Hard to get green ink stains out.

[BossLady]

See, now that's what I have been thinking...the beard angle......she 'dated' the finance guy but 'diddled' Kerry. This is not unusual in politics or Hollywood....

[Bluntpoint]

This has to be what it sounds like in all the press rooms around the country everytime Bush clears himself from one baseless charge, they just go into overdrive, speculating about what they really think he did.