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'This Won't Go Away. What Happened Is Much Nastier Than Is Being Reported' (Kerry)
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-15-2004 | Adrian Blomfeld/Andrew Alderson

Posted on 02/14/2004 5:29:29 PM PST by blam

'This won't go away. What happened is much nastier than is being reported'

By Adrian Blomfeld in Nairobi and Andrew Alderson
(Filed: 15/02/2004)

Alex Polier, the twenty-four year old journalist who could end Senator John Kerry's hopes of becoming the next president of the United States is alleged to have had a two-year affair with the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Last night the rumours were in danger of becoming a full-blown scandal.

"This is not going to go away," one American friend of Miss Polier said yesterday. "What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported."

The allegations come at a crucial time for the senator. Polls showed him leading Mr Bush by 52 per cent to 42 per cent, and aides will be anxious to see if the apparent scandal affects his standing among voters.

Miss Polier, a former intern who also spent some time in 1998 doing work experience at the Houses of Parliament in London, is in Kenya staying with Yaron Schwartzman, her fiance and a member of the country's fashionable young set. The couple have refused to make any comment on her alleged links with Senator Kerry, who is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, an heiress to the food empire.

Senator Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran dubbed the new JFK, has vehemently denied any relationship with Miss Polier, and shrugged off allegations that he had a two-year affair with her from 2001. "I just deny it categorically. It's rumour. It's untrue. Period," he said.

Mr Kerry, 60, has won 12 out of the 14 Democratic primaries and has looked all but certain to seal the nomination to take on President George W. Bush in November's elections.

His aides have blamed a dirty tricks campaign for bringing the allegations about Miss Polier into the public eye; they first surfaced last week on a Right-wing internet site, the Drudge Report, which famously first broke the news of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Miss Polier's parents, Terry and Donna, from Malvern, Pennsylvania, added fuel to the fire by claiming that Mr Kerry did pursue their daughter.

"I think he's a sleazeball. I did wonder if she didn't get that feeling herself," said Mr Polier. "He's not the sort of guy I'd choose to be with my daughter.

"John Kerry called my daughter and invited her to be on his re-election committee. She talked to him and decided against it."

The Drudge website also quoted retired Gen Wesley Clark, one of Mr Kerry's rivals for the nomination, as having told journalists off the record: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue."

Mr Clark later dropped out of the race and endorsed Mr Kerry.

Miss Polier, a journalist who once worked for Associated Press, is a graduate of Columbia University, New York. She apparently met the senator as she was beginning her media career. Miss Polier and her fiance were believed to be hiding yesterday at the Nairobi home of Mr Schwartzman's parents, who moved to Kenya from Israel.

She appears to have few friends of her own in Kenya: she has never lived in the country and makes only occasional visits. "She seemed perfectly nice, although she was a little cool," said a Schwartzman family friend.

"She didn't seem to be very willing to open up but whether it was because she was aloof or just shy, I couldn't work out."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2004; alexgate; alexpolier; away; bimboeruption; gigolo; happened; intern; kerry; nastier; polier; rapistkerry; reported; scandal; this
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To: oceanview
I dunno.. from what I've seen on the DU, they'd toss Kerry over the side in a second if the charges were true.

Many DUers said they don't want to go through another Clinton presidency of constantly being on the defensive on these sort of issues.
61 posted on 02/14/2004 5:56:28 PM PST by ambrose ("John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" - Lt. Col. Oliver North)
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To: PJ-Comix
"Horse/Human genes."

Yeeeouch!
62 posted on 02/14/2004 5:56:43 PM PST by Darnright (The 6,875,029 Virginians who did NOT vote Kerry cannot be wrong!!!)
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To: blam
I haven't heard any "vehement" denials. He said "there's nothing to report" on the Imus show, which, based on the standard set by Clinton, isn't a denial at all.
63 posted on 02/14/2004 5:57:07 PM PST by John Jorsett
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To: Milanese; All; Registered
Not being computer savy enough I cant do it myself, but I would love to see a visual of Kerry "imploding"
64 posted on 02/14/2004 5:57:12 PM PST by woofie ( If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried)
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To: jaz.357
Read the caption of the photo in the story...jeez, get a clue...that is NOT HER. She is a woman FEATURED in a story WRITTEN by Polier.

I am tired of people who don't follow through.
65 posted on 02/14/2004 5:57:24 PM PST by paulat
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To: flashbunny
I'd be surprised if she's not a blonde. That is John's preference.
66 posted on 02/14/2004 5:58:26 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: tubebender
"You may contact Mr Kerry at his new address at Motel 6.."

That's where I stayed after my one-day marriage flopped. Chinese wife who got pissed off when I flopped on her antique sofa in my underwear and then threw out her jade green Buddha figurines. Hey, I can't live in a house filled with heathen pot-bellied green gods. Anyway, I got thrown out right after the fat green Buddha guy.

67 posted on 02/14/2004 5:59:02 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Saddam Hussein was only 537 Florida votes away from still being in power)
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To: per loin
John Kerry is a "War Hero" to the left, and that does, of course, include the media. "War Hero" translates to one who served with the same left wing philosophy, who then came home to cause death and suffering to those he left behind. It is not an unheard of happenstance that "war heros" are made while they are fighting to save their asses. It does not mean that they are all Audie Murphies. To some, Jane Fonda was a "war hero."

Giving aid and comfort to the enemy used to be called treason.
68 posted on 02/14/2004 5:59:27 PM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU, I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: per loin
John Kerry is a "War Hero" to the left, and that does, of course, include the media. "War Hero" translates to one who served with the same left wing philosophy, who then came home to cause death and suffering to those he left behind. It is not an unheard of happenstance that "war heros" are made while they are fighting to save their asses. It does not mean that they are all Audie Murphies. To some, Jane Fonda was a "war hero."

Giving aid and comfort to the enemy used to be called treason.
69 posted on 02/14/2004 6:00:18 PM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU, I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: jaz.357
Polier has that Jennene Garaffalo look... with less peanutbutter factor (Polier probably doesn't smell like burning cigarettes either).

Mrs. Theresa Heinz must be spinning in her grave... oh, wait she's still alive... look out J.F.K., you're going to be sleeping on the couch again and again.

Trajan88

70 posted on 02/14/2004 6:00:43 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: jaz.357
O mein Gott! She looks like Garrafalo. This is getting spooky.
71 posted on 02/14/2004 6:00:52 PM PST by Dionysius
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To: omnix
I have been in the Guard for almost 12 years. It is not uncommon for someone who is going to school or having some type of employer training to miss 6 to 8 months of Guard Duty. The National Guard means you are a citizen warrior. Two years ago we had a young man who went for training to become a U.S. Park Ranger. He missed about 8 months of drill duty but made them up.

In the Guard, unless you are at war or activated by a presendital call up, you are only in the military on your weekend of the month or your two week annual training. We realize in the Guard that your civilain employer pays most of your bills and we try to accomodate you so that you can progress in you civilian endevors.

It may be possible that Presidnet Bush missed a few drills tyring to secure his political future and there is nothing wrong with that as long as he had permission to miss from his superiors in the Guard.

We must stand behind President Bush and give him the support and dedication that he deserves.
72 posted on 02/14/2004 6:01:39 PM PST by omnix (Support President Bush)
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To: Milanese
I'm going to bet that the Alex case is nothing more than low level stalking. Probably not even involving threats. If true, however, it will ruin Kerry. He is on record as requiring the sesignation of Senators who harrass women.

I can t remember the name of the Republican who's career was ruined over this, but Kerry was in the thick of it.

Even worse in the eyes of voters, however is being rejected. No one is going to vote for a loser dweeb.

73 posted on 02/14/2004 6:02:17 PM PST by js1138
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To: M. Thatcher
Ping.
74 posted on 02/14/2004 6:02:19 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: js1138
You are thinking of Robert Packwood.
75 posted on 02/14/2004 6:03:12 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: cyncooper
You weren't the only one struck.
I about fell over.
76 posted on 02/14/2004 6:04:05 PM PST by mabelkitty
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To: PeteFromMontana
I saw it on Fox; it was a poll of 1k+ adults. Not very meaningful in the long run.
77 posted on 02/14/2004 6:05:15 PM PST by reformedliberal (3rd parties: just say NO!)
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To: Enterprise
The closest I can get to anything like Camelot with Kerry is that he looks a lot like a Camel.

Terrific!!!

78 posted on 02/14/2004 6:05:30 PM PST by Salvey
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To: Miss Marple
You are thinking of Robert Packwood.

Did he get some Pole-ER too? When you have problems downstairs, it is probaby a good idea to get some emergency Pole-ER. I know that Clinton got some Pole-ER from Monica.

79 posted on 02/14/2004 6:06:02 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Saddam Hussein was only 537 Florida votes away from still being in power)
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To: Miss Marple
Maybe the GOP is waiting to unload on john F'n Kerry like the dems did to Packwood.

Loaded for bear (no pun intended)

80 posted on 02/14/2004 6:07:08 PM PST by spokeshave (She said one of the men yelled after the retreating burglar: "And that's just our womenfolk.")
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