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Kerry says his outspoken wife is an asset
AP | 5/11/04

Posted on 05/11/2004 9:02:28 AM PDT by kattracks

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry considers his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, one of his biggest assets and scoffs at the idea that he is aloof and chilly.

"Have you had a beer with me yet?" Kerry asked a reporter during interviews Monday with local media. "I like to have fun as much as the next person, and go out and hack around and have a good time."

Asked if his political opponents were targeting his wife, Kerry said, "I think they're foolhardy to do it, personally, because I think she is so down-to-earth and so straightforward."

At times Heinz Kerry has been blunt in her public comments. She joked that her husband was in the bathroom when he learned of his early primary victories, and she told a television interviewer she had agreed to a doctor-recommended abortion before suffering a miscarriage. She also has talked freely of the prenuptial agreement she has with Kerry and the cosmetic Botox injections she has taken.

"If they want to attack her, they're going to have to go through me," Kerry said. "I'll be the first to defend anything she does ... she doesn't pull her punches."

Heinz Kerry is a native of Mozambique and the widow of Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, the Heinz prepared foods heir who died in an airplane crash. She inherited a fortune estimated at more than $500 million.

In spite of her wealth and a string of luxurious homes, her financial assistance to the Kerry campaign is limited to the maximum $2,000 contribution. Kerry took out a $6.4 million mortgage on the couple's Boston town house to help finance his campaign. While he has made public his tax returns, she has resisted calls that she release her financial records.

"I think people who meet her love her," Kerry said.



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; gigolo; jeanfrancois; kerry; teresa; teresaheinz
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1 posted on 05/11/2004 9:02:29 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Oh yeah, a dumb-asset.
2 posted on 05/11/2004 9:03:47 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: kattracks
An "asset"? Well, he's getting warmer...
3 posted on 05/11/2004 9:03:47 AM PDT by thoughtomator (yesterday Kabul, today Baghdad, tomorrow Damascus)
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To: kattracks
Excise the final two letters in the title and you've got it right.
4 posted on 05/11/2004 9:04:24 AM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: kattracks
"Kerry says his outspoken wife is an ass"

More accuracy in media, that's what's needed...

5 posted on 05/11/2004 9:04:35 AM PDT by Old Sarge
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To: kattracks
Then the 'ASSet' should release her tax returns!
6 posted on 05/11/2004 9:04:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: kattracks
In accounting terms, she IS an asset.

But you are her LIABILITY, Jean Fidel Qaerry.
7 posted on 05/11/2004 9:08:18 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Jean Fidel Qaerry - Vietnam Veterans Against The War On Terrorism)
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To: John Jorsett
"Ta-raise-ya (taxes) an asset? Take off the two last letters..."

My Thoughts Exactly PING!
8 posted on 05/11/2004 9:08:47 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (I approve this message: character and integrity matter. Bush/Cheney for '04.)
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To: kattracks
What is he going to say? That she's a loose-tongued loon who specializes in looking like a fool?
9 posted on 05/11/2004 9:09:37 AM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: thoughtomator
Heinz Kerry...inherited a fortune estimated at more than $500 million.... Kerry took out a $6.4 million mortgage on the couple's Boston town house to help finance his campaign.

Oh, I'd say she is an asset all right.

10 posted on 05/11/2004 9:09:51 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: Impeach the Boy
"If they want to attack her, they're going to have to go through me," Kerry said.

He's a real tough guy isnt he? Maybe he should have "them" go thru the U.N. first, before they go "through him".

"I'll be the first to defend anything she does ... she doesn't pull her punches."

And the last to defend America in anything she does.

11 posted on 05/11/2004 9:10:41 AM PDT by capydick ("Kerry hates children")
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To: Enduring Freedom
"I love my wallet, er..., my wife. I love my wife." - Jean Fidel Qaerry
12 posted on 05/11/2004 9:10:54 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Jean Fidel Qaerry - Vietnam Veterans Against The War On Terrorism)
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To: John Jorsett
Well, ya beat me to that one. I guess it was pretty obvious, though. :)
13 posted on 05/11/2004 9:11:16 AM PDT by Some hope remaining.
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To: capydick
Oh, he is a tough guy alright...So what will he do if we "attack" his money bags, huh I mean his wife?

Will he run over us with his $6000 bicycle while wearing those goofy tight ridding pants?

Will he throw ribbons at us?

Will he say he whipped our butts, although he didn't whip our butts, before he DID whip our butts?
14 posted on 05/11/2004 9:14:58 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: kattracks; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; hellinahandcart; Poohbah
“I like to have fun as much as the next person ...”

In regular-person lingo, “next guy.”

“... and go out and hack around and have a good time.”

Hopeless.

15 posted on 05/11/2004 9:16:24 AM PDT by dighton
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To: Enduring Freedom
I love my wallet, er..., my wife. I love my wife." - Jean Fidel Qaerry


Since she's an asset to his campaign, shouldn't she be declared, reported and taxed?
16 posted on 05/11/2004 9:18:56 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: dighton
Doesn't it look like he's just having do much fun?

17 posted on 05/11/2004 9:24:15 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: kattracks
"...I think she is so down-to-earth and so straightforward."

I have a feeling that as someone who doesn't have several mansions and servents at my beckon call... she's not likely to seem down to earth to me.

These folks are so out of touch with low and middle class America that they couldn't have a clue if they tried to by one with their $500 Million net worth.
18 posted on 05/11/2004 9:27:34 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Where is the outrage?!)
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To: kattracks
Baloney!!!
19 posted on 05/11/2004 9:27:40 AM PDT by MamaB (mom to an angel)
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To: All
Kerry says his outspoken wife is an asset

She certainly is. Kerry would have been just one more out of work hack if it weren't for Ter ay sah's $$$.

Kerry's patroness

Why won't the straightforward Mrs. Heinz-Kerry disclose her tax returns?

20 posted on 05/11/2004 9:27:58 AM PDT by kattracks
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