Teresa: I'll Use Ketchup Cash if Race Turns Ugly

NewsMax ^ | 3/14/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Teresa Heinz Kerry is warning that she'll use the vast Heinz ketchup fortune to repel personal attacks by the Bush campaign - insisting for the first time publicly that there are legal ways around the campaign finance laws that could allow her to spend far more than the $2,000 legal limit to get her husband elected.

Asked last week if she had decided to spend "any of your own fortune" on the presidential race, Heinz Kerry initially told National Public Radio's Renee Montagne, "I cannot, by law; $2,000 is it, and I've said that so many times."

But in the next breath the ketchup heiress warned, "Any time the honor of my family or myself is trashed, I will do what any American would try and do, which is to fight to redeem it."

"And there are legal ways of doing that," she insisted.

Heinz Kerry predicted that the Bush campaign would indeed go after her and her family personally, setting off the tripwire that would open up her $700 million pocketbook.

"I'm sure it will get very ugly and personal," she warned. "But I think . . . ugliness speaks for itself, and expensive ugliness speaks for itself even more."

Asked if she was expecting "any particular accusations, any particular vulnerabilities on your part?" Heinz Kerry told NPR, "No."

"[There are] no vulnerabilities on my part. My life's an open book. I'm honest, I work hard, I care about people, and I have hopes for the world and for us, and I think we're not being well-served and well-led."

[texasflower]

expensive ugliness speaks for itself even more

She really is a piece of work.

[Condor51]

Teresa (or any dem);
"Laws? LAWS?!? We don't obey no stinkin' laws. Laws are for Republicans, conservatives in general and the 'little people' only!"

[buffyt]

I have stopped buying Heinz products. If Kerry agrees to drop out of the Presidential race, I MIGHT start buying them again... maybe! I know that not ALL of that money is sitting in her bank account. She would have to sell Heinz to get all that money, it is tied up in the day to day running of the empire, jobs, product, buildings, etc.

[Hon]

Her Heinzess's money has been being used to attack Bush for a very long time:

Teresa Heinz Kerry Funded Group Calls For Censure Of Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079318/posts

The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group [Mrs. Kerry Is A Commie]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077429/posts

[Condor51]

I like your Tag-line!

[Lexinom]

Done. I've sent an e-mail to some of my family and friends. You all do the same. Paste the pictures from Marlowe's #38 in the e-mail for immediate identification.

[Hon]

These are a couple of posters from a group, United For Peace And Justice, that is funded by the Tides Foundation. Teresa Heinz [aka Mrs. Kerry] has given the Tides Foundation more than $6 million dollars:

The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group [Mrs. Kerry Is A Commie]

[buffyt]

McCarthy was RIGHT! Read Tales from the Left Coast by James Hirsen. He nails it.

[Hon]

This is another group, MoveOn, that Her Heinzess funds:

Teresa Heinz Kerry Funded Group Calls For Censure Of Bush

[StriperSniper]

she'll use the vast Heinz ketchup fortune to repel personal attacks by the Bush campaign

She has said that before, and it is one more reason for the media, in addition to their blatent bias, to characterize every Bush statement and ad as 'negative' and 'personal' and 'questioning of patriotism' regardless of the actual content.

[proud American in Canada]

"Actually, JayNorth, the problem with the law is that only conservatives are applying it to themselves.
I have it on good authority that the Bush campaign is disassociating itself from at least one major Republican auxiliary group because the group MIGHT accept contributions greater than the $2,000 limit placed on the presidential campaigns."


*sigh* Why doesn't this surprise me? We keep bringing plastic knives to a gunfight.

[MamaK]

Just went on Heinz' website and left message that if she used her money there would be a boycott.

[R W Reactionairy]

One other point of pure speculation on the mortgage used to inject new life into the Kerry primary war chest: Fife Symington [former Republican Governor of AZ] spent a little time in jail for what amounted to using an inflated real appraisal to secure a loan.

In Mr. Symington's case, the use of a going concern value versus a liquidation value appraisal may actually have had some merit -- no such defense could be offered for a loan on a high priced piece of residential real estate. Symington also had the misfortune of having the loan go bad. If Teresa [or some other Democratic party hack] doesn't pony up the cash to repay the loan this may still a risk for Mr. Kerry. If they do, it might constitute a McCain Feingold problem.

[MamaK]

Just went on Heinz' website and left message that if she used her money there would be a boycott.

[Hon]

"Just went on Heinz' website and left message that if she used her money there would be a boycott."

She's already doing it--and has been for years.

See my posts above.

[doug from upland]

The plans to violate the law. What is the surprise here?

[Ramcat]

"BTW I think a frontal attack on teresa is a big big mistake."

You're correct CG. She'll do just fine opening her mouth.
As far as her ongoing association with Heinz, I don't think she has any. I think this boycott thing is generally misguided.

Besides it discredits the memory of a good man Sen. John Heinz who is rolling in his grave.

[Finalapproach29er]

He was hoping for this when he married you.

Old man Heinz must be spinning in his grave.

[Fiddlstix]

Nice work McCain.

I'll second that!

Thanks again McLame. Damn RINO!

[wardaddy]

What a shew!

How the Heinz family let her "f" her way into their family fortune beats me.

No class, all crass.