Kerry lover holed up in city house

East Africa Standard ^ | 2.16.04 | Nixon Ng'ang'a

[ambrose]

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Kerry lover holed up in city house

By Nixon Ng'ang'a

The woman who could end Senator John Kerry's chances of becoming president of the United States remained holed up in a Lavington house in Nairobi amid claims that she had confessed her affair to a US TV station.

The gate to the house where twenty four-year old Alexandra Polier, who allegedly had a two-year affair with the Senator favoured to clinch the Democratic Party nomination stays, was closed yesterday.

Local and international journalists camped at the gate for hours but were denied access to house no 909 on James Gichuru Road, next to the Spring Garden Chinese Restaurant.

A guard at the gate said he had firm instructions not to open the gate to journalists " or any strange people."

Two cars, a Range Rover and white Toyota , stood next to a solitary basketball rim in the compound tucked under a canopy of giant blue gums and fenced in by a 12-feet stone wall.

The house belongs to Mr Joseph Scwartzman, a wealthy businessman of Jewish origin and a director of H and Young Company who is the father to Alex's fiancee, Yaron.

Neighbours described Alex, a former intern in the House of Parliament in London and a journalist with the Associated Press, as "an extremely good-looking but aloof slim lady with long hair."

"I have seen her a couple of times driving with the young Scwartzman, " said a guard who did not want to be named. "They rarely socialise with their immediate neighbours but they are normally seen driving out on weekends."

Neighbours claimed to have been seeing Alex and her boyfriend from the beginning of this year.

The claim seems to reinforce US-sourced accounts that Alex "ran" to Kenya last December on prompting from Kerry ostensibly to put a distance between her and investigators probing his past sex life.

But at Film Studios, where Yaron was reported to be working, the managing director, Mr Charles Simpson denied any knowledge of the man.

Said Simpson: "I would not want to be so categorical that he has never been here... we continuously give short-time jobs to several people. But again, we are a close-knit community. If he ever worked here, we would know him."

At H and Young Company on Funzi Road in Nairobi's Industrial Area, journalists were restricted to talking through the intercom to a man who curtly said the senior Schwartzman never worked from the premises.

Yesterday, US newspapers reported that the brunette described as having "the perkiness of a cheerleader and the ambition of a Hollywood starlet" had given a kiss-and-tell story to a TV station in December.

The station has however been reluctant to air the story apparently because it was not credible.

The TV executive was quoted as saying: "She wants to tell her story. She is claiming this is a two-year affair. The problem is that no one is believing her."

Kerry, 60, who is twice-married is said to have asked Alex to join his campaign team but she declined.

He has dismissed the allegations first floated by private web page owner Matt Drudge as a smear campaign orchestrated by his Republican opponents and vowed to fight on.

"I promise you that when the Republican smear machine trots out the same old attacks in this election, this is one Democrat who will fight back. I've fought for my country my entire life, and I'm not about to back down now, he said."

If proved, the sex scandal could put paid to the Massachusetts senator's dream to replace incumbent George Bush in the November elections.

Family "correctness" and moral probity play a crucial role in US presidential elections. Bill Clinton's indiscretion with White House intern Monica Lewinsky is believed to have cost last election's Democratic candidate Al Gore-Clinton's Vice President- the presidency.

Currently, Kerry is leading Bush with nearly ten percent in opinion polls but the Republicans will likely pick on his sex scandal hoping to roll back his advantage.

[Rome2000]

" or any strange people."

I guess Kerry campaign spokesman Mike Meehan won't be getting in.

[winker]

I hope your "MEAT" was worth it! Because we won't forget it!

[Sender]

Currently, Kerry is leading Bush with nearly ten percent in opinion polls

Quick! Somebody find GW a mistress!

[independentmind]

We've been HAD by a Fake story so that Drudge and Talk Radio and the Internet are ALL DISCREDITED!!

Do you think that someone with a degree from the Columbia School of Journalism would have a professional interest in accomplishing such a feat? Now that really would take some ambition!

[timydnuc]

Does anybody find it strange that a journalist won't talk to the press about a poitical story that could be the biggest story of the year. Isn't the press supposed to search for the truth and inform the people?

I want this to continue, not for the destruction of, the very french looking, John F'in Kerry, but for the bare naked exposure of the American Press and what they have become, butt boys (and girls) of the communist left. They haven't reported the news in the last 30 years. They have been the propaganda wing of Der Partik Democratik (Seit...Hial). I want no doubt as to their intentions to be made public. It's coming, my friends. The hate for us is so great, they are now making mistakes. It's out job to factually represent those mistakes, and get them out to the public.

If you thought Florida 2000 was a nightmare, you ain't seen nothin' yet. The following 9 months will test your very soul. They have, or will, sell their collective souls to the devil to win this thing. If we don't stick together and fight them they will win. If we do nothing, if we sit at home, if we BLINK, they will win. This is not the time to fight among outselves, it's a time to stand together, because if we don't, and they win, this will be the last election that we will ever vote in.

If you think I'm wearing a tinfoil Stetson, think about their anger at losing power. If you don't think that I'm right, just think about what they will do if they ever get that power back again. Just think!

[mountaineer]

I think there are at least two different stories colliding here.

Not to mention the one freeper Julliardsux has described, of Kerry's most recent "relationship" with a Senate staff member. Anything new on that, J?

[Sender]

Yeah but now if anything at all happens to this poor girl's health, Kerry's goose is cooked. Dead girl=guilty Kerry. At least that's how it will appear.

[Political Junkie Too]

Internet news is one thing. How about the London press? I don't know that the London press will be as obliging to Kerry as the American press, especially in the wake of the BBC scandal. I think the London press will want to show that they are objective and trustworthy.

-PJ

[Paul_B]

>Oh ... let's say 10,000 shares of Heinz stock to both her and her parents ... would that work?

Coupled with thuggish threats of reputation assassination, carrot/stick-like, I think so.

[Maria S]

"She and her "fiance" are alleged to have an "understanding." This has never been uncommon among the "jet set."

I wonder if Senator Kerry and the luvly Ms. Kerry have a similar "understanding"?

[Paul_B]

>One of the British stories about this today said her dad was a Republican; how does that jibe with this guy now voting for Kerry?

The only way the truth will out now is for knowing third parties - friends who see inconsistancies, the TV show who reportedly did the interview last month, etc. to see that the current story does not add up, and be willing to speak out. The main players are under tremendous pressure to play along.

And that is exactly my prayer. Lord, let the truth, whatever it is, out.

[longtermmemmory]

The london press might as well not exist. Only political junkies would be reading that. The "anyone but bush" zombies will excuse the story even if they need to bring in a UFO conspiracy theory.

[dartuser]

"I've fought for my country my entire life, and I'm not about to back down now ..."

Don't you just love how John Effing Kerry is now going to equate defending himself against adultery allegations ... with defending the US ...

If he is successful with defending himself against adultery, i.e. "there's nothing to report ..." ... then he is surely qualified to fight the war on terror.

[longtermmemmory]

His campaign is premised on redoing 2000. Listen to him say (howl?) "take back the white house". Take back from what? Perhaps the only thing any Democrat candidate has to offer their core is that they are not Bush.

[Hildy]

This whole thing seems like one big set-up to make Republicans look foolish. Just my gut feeling.

[longtermmemmory]

Then it is even more important to remind people this came from DEMOCRATS. Clark is the first to leak the story. Democrats bashing Democrats, pure and simple.

[archy]

What about the letter the girl supposedly issued today that denies this?

According to President Clinton, what she did with Kerry wasn't sex?

[Beck_isright]

"The house belongs to Mr Joseph Scwartzman, a wealthy businessman of Jewish origin and a director of H and Young Company who is the father to Alex's fiancee, Yaron.

Neighbours described Alex, a former intern in the House of Parliament in London and a journalist with the Associated Press, as "an extremely good-looking but aloof slim lady with long hair."

"I have seen her a couple of times driving with the young Scwartzman, " said a guard who did not want to be named. "They rarely socialise with their immediate neighbours but they are normally seen driving out on weekends."

Neighbours claimed to have been seeing Alex and her boyfriend from the beginning of this year.

The claim seems to reinforce US-sourced accounts that Alex "ran" to Kenya last December on prompting from Kerry ostensibly to put a distance between her and investigators probing his past sex life.

But at Film Studios, where Yaron was reported to be working, the managing director, Mr Charles Simpson denied any knowledge of the man.

Said Simpson: "I would not want to be so categorical that he has never been here... we continuously give short-time jobs to several people. But again, we are a close-knit community. If he ever worked here, we would know him."

At H and Young Company on Funzi Road in Nairobi's Industrial Area, journalists were restricted to talking through the intercom to a man who curtly said the senior Schwartzman never worked from the premises."

Now which is it? The claim was by the leftist media that she went to Kenya where her fiance is working. But now we see that he's not working where the claim was made. This story illustrates that it has legs. I just wonder when Matt will drop the big one. I hope it's Friday night at 6 p.m. To cause mass freaking out by the national media.

[uncbob]

We've been HAD by a Fake story so that Drudge and Talk Radio and the Internet are ALL DISCREDITED!!

Well the British and other press seem to have taken it seriously

[uncbob]

"I've fought for my country my entire life, and I'm not about to back down now ..."

REAL heroes don't spout this kind of BS
Kerry is a phoney