Heinz Seeks to Disavow Kerry Connection

AP | 3/29/04 | Charles Sheehan

[rwfromkansas]

Alert.....apparently Del Monte is also owned by Heinz. People should not buy Del Monte ketchup thinking it is independent. Add that to the graphic...

[rwfromkansas]

Well, I might boycott afterall....4 percent of the profits of this massive company is huge.

[rwfromkansas]

Nevermind....another poster corrected the original poster saying Del Monte was owned by Heinz. I checked the website and Del Monte bought some Heinz companies.

Del Monte is safe...

[P-Marlowe]

Alert.....apparently Del Monte is also owned by Heinz.

I suggest you run a fact check on that rw. I don't think it is true. Apparently Del Monte purchased several brands from Heinz company. Before we start accusing Del Monte of funding the Kerry campaign, I think we'd better make certain our information is correct.

[P-Marlowe]

Del Monte is safe...

Thanks RW. Del Monte makes the only pickle relish I can eat. Heinz pickle relish sucks beyond belief.

[Mo1]

HAHAHAHAHA .... Guess Kerry lost another endorsement

[rwfromkansas]

See the Kerry financial statement on how much money he personally gets from stock in the Heinz company.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/pfd2002/N00000245_2002.pdf

(pages 27 and 68)

[rwfromkansas]

True. Somebody posted it, I briefly looked at the website (without reading the press release), then posted it again.

Then I read the comment from somebody questioning it and I took a closer look......sure enough, Del Monte actually bought part Heinz, not the other way around.

[onyx]

Hahahahahahaha is right.
I detest him.

[NotchJohnson]

So Teresa Heinz was married to a rep. senator, then changed to John Kerry?

[familyofman]

"The less products Heintz sells, the less money Terayyysa gets to fund liberal causes."

Not true at all. The Endowment, by definition, has it's own assets and receives no current funding/support from the current operations of the H.J.Heinz Co. If you can prove otherwise - do so, or drop it. Your ignorance of corporations and family endowment funds is beyond beleif.

[familyofman]

"Dreamer.

Let's talk about 50 million in real estate."

Old family money. What do you propose - no one from a wealthy family can run - how innane can you get.

[Ima Lurker]

LOL.....good one!

[stainlessbanner]

You are right on.

[areafiftyone]

Fat Chance - We must keep pushing the Ketchup!!!

[xp38]

It would be most helpful if you could investigate Hunts and its major shareholders and where their political connections lie and report back to us. I don't want to switch from Heinz to Hunts only to find their ketchup is actually redder in the wrong way. Btw the CEO and President of Heinz I read here on FR donates to the Republicans.

[Born Conservative]

We have a local Heinz plant, and I'm almost positive I've seen a Del Monte sign out in front of the plant. I'll check today on my way home from work.

[Joee]

Thanks ---- I ment to say Hunts.

[Joee]

I ment to say Hunts instead of Del Monte. Regardless, if I know a product is Heinz, I won't buy it. To hell with the Traitor Kerry!!!

[Mammy7]

I post on the AOL political message boards and although there is a lot of "chatter" about Kerry and the Heinz connection it centers mostly on whether he is being hypocritical in his position on "anti- outsourcing" while he is denouncing the practice or at least advocating putting new "stringent" tax regulations on those companies that do.