John Kerry's Watergate

Insight on the News ^ | Sept 16, 2003 | John Pike

[Hon]

Heard of Watergate? Get ready for Lowellgate.

On Sept. 18, 1972, the evening before the primary election during his second attempt for Congress, Kerry's brother Cameron and one Thomas Vallely, both part of his current campaign team, were arrested by Lowell police at 1:40 a.m. and charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny. The two were apprehended in the basement of a building whose door had been forced open, police said. It housed the headquarters of candidate DiFruscia. The Watergate scandal was making headlines at this time, and it was called the Lowell Watergate.

"They wanted to sever my telephone lines," DiFruscia said recently. Had those lines been cut, Kerry's opponent would not have been able to telephone supporters on Election Day to get out the vote and coordinate poll watchers, vital roles in a close election. "I do not know if they wanted to break into my office," says DiFruscia today. At the time he said, "All my IBM cards and the list of my voter identification in the greater Lowell area are in my headquarters."

Cameron and Vallely, along with David Thorne, who was Kerry's campaign manager at the time and has been close to him since they attended Yale together, did not deny the two entered the building in which they were captured. They said at the time they were in the cellar of the building to check their own telephone lines because they had received an anonymous call warning they would be cut.

This reporter heard an allegation that another congressional candidate placed the alleged anonymous call, which was denied. But if the Kerry campaign was concerned about someone breaking and entering to cut off its telephone service, why didn't they just call the police? Why break the law? And what does any of this say about Kerry's mind-set? Kerry campaign officials did not answer important Lowellgate questions.

The case was transferred to superior court and continued without a finding, where it was dismissed about a year later. But since it happened at the last minute, and Kerry won the primary but went on to lose the general election, this ugly business did not receive intense media scrutiny. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were busy investigating another break-in.

[kcvl]

Edgar Bronfman, president of Seagram's Distillers

John Kerry is Austrian Jew and not English Irish as he has claimed inthe past once saying he was "proud of his English Irishancestry".......in the past he has accepted money from Edgar Bronfman,who with Meyer Lansky - ran Murder Inc.

[kcvl]

Bronfman Family

Edgar M. Bronfman
Founder, Scandent Group

Edgar M. Bronfman is a member of the Board of Directors of Vivendi Universal.

Prior to the December 2000 formation of Vivendi Universal, Mr. Bronfman was Chairman of The Seagram Company Ltd. In 1951, Mr. Bronfman joined Distillers Corporation-Seagrams Limited (renamed The Seagram Company Ltd. in 1975), becoming president of the company in 1971 and Chairman in 1975. In 1994, Mr. Bronfman relinquished the position of Chief Executive Officer to his son, Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Mr. Bronfman 's philanthropic and civic activities include serving as Chairman of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. In 1999, President Clinton awarded Mr. Bronfman the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. That same year, Mr. Bronfman received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Rochester. In 1997, he received from New York University an honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial Science.

Mr. Bronfman attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts; and graduated with a bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1951.




Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Founder, Scandent Group

Edgar Bronfman Jr. is the Vice Chairman of Vivendi Universal, a leading global media & communications company, with operations in five core communication units including TV & Film, Publishing, Music, Internet and Telecom. Its environmental unit, Vivendi Environment, is the worldwide leader in environment services. He has been instrumental in bringing Universal and Vivendi together to form one of the world's most significant conglomerates.

Prior to the December 2000 formation of Vivendi Universal, Edgar Bronfman Jr. was President and Chief Executive Officer of The Seagram Company Limited, a post he held since June 1994. He has held various leadership positions, which include Managing Director - Europe, based in London, overseeing management of Seagram's European subsidiaries and affiliates. He has also been responsible for the US operations and has supervised all spirit & wine activities in the United States and the marketing efforts of Tropicana Products Inc. He built the Seagram business and brands to a position of significant strength. During his tenure as the Chief Executive Officer of Seagram, he consummated approximately US $ 85 billion in transactions and transformed the company into one of the world's leading media and communications company.

He is a member of the Board of USA Networks Inc., The New York University Medical Center and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, amongst others. Edgar Bronfman Jr. brings to Scandent Group invaluable leadership and experience in building global businesses and in transforming businesses to compete in challenging environments.

[ladyjane]

I liked reading that Teresa Heinz is still a Loyal Registered Republican and has never voted for him!

Vote for him? Heck, she doesn't even call him her husband! When she says "My husband..." she is referring to Heinz - not Kerry. No wonder he's got a long face.

[kcvl]

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[Miss Marple]

Oops. You are correct, Timesink. I should have noted the date.

So, if Shapiro was correct on Fox today, there is STILL a bomb to drop.

Hon, you are misunderstanding what I am saying. Although this article is not the result of Chris Lehane's opposition research, many of the scandals that drop in the last few days of various primary campaigns will be. Just because it appears in a paper doesn't mean that the story didn't come from an opponent of Kerry's. Opposition research is very often leaked to a friendly media outlet. That is how it becomes a story, rather than a charge by the opposing candidate.

And excuse me,Hon, but I spend quite a bit of time researching things myself. This is a good story and I am glad it was posted.

[kcvl]

Iowa voters agree: any Democratic presidential contender who can kite-board is probably the best man for the job

Do we really need a spoiled brat who is still acting like a teenager in the White House?

[Hon]

"Opposition research is very often leaked to a friendly media outlet. That is how it becomes a story, rather than a charge by the opposing candidate."

The hell you say!

Anyway, if it was the product of opposition research they sure aren't doing much with it--since, as I noted, the guy they burglered is now a Representative in New Hampshire. So there is local interest.

[Scenic Sounds]

I hope somebody has something better than this. ;-)

[expatpat]

Thx

[Hon]

Maybe Kerry is taking his Jack Kennedy aping a little too far. Just because JFK's dad was a bootlegger, doesn't mean Kerry has to be in the pocket of another.

[Salvation]

go Lehane!

[Salvation]

**The Many Faces of John Kerry.**

LOL!

What You Don't Know about John Kerry

It looks like we have Senator Two-Face here

[Salvation]

**So who bankrolled Kerry in his first run for Congress.
Who wanted him to win and run so badly, and what did they get in return?
Big Dig connection?**

I've always thought:

Kennedy.

[Hon]

"I liked reading that Teresa Heinz is still a Loyal Registered Republican and has never voted for him! Thats bankable."

Actually she very publicly changed her voter registration to Dem last January. (Over some trumped up reason vis a vis Rick Santorum.)

But when she married Kerry she said that she would "go down the aisle with him, but she wouldn't cross the aisle for him."

That changed. LOL

[Salvation]

Wasn't he ice skating with a hockey team yesterday too?

This man needs to grow up! He's worse than Dean!

[SunkenCiv]

Fascinating. Not surprising though. Also not surprising is the fact that it has resurfaced as Kerry becomes the frontrunner.

[lawdude]

I can't apply a different standard to Kerry than I would to any Republican. He is not responsible for the actions of his family members unless he caused them to do this. Has that been shown?

[HRoarke]

But I thought only Dick Cheney and Halliburton did shady backroom deals! How could this be.

[jwalsh07]

LeHane is a busy little bee.

[lawdude]

"That changed. LOL"

Words are cheap. I bet she pulls the lever on "R".