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MEDIA SUING TO OPEN KERRY'S SEALED DIVORCE PAPERS
AM 570 WMCA - NY ^ | 6.30.2004

Posted on 06/29/2004 8:31:10 AM PDT by KMC1

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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
This move is almost psychotic and makes Ryan and/or his advisor look like petty fools.

Agreed....and furthermore it could turn into a backlash for Kerry if there's no "there" there. Bad, bad idea.

61 posted on 06/29/2004 9:24:53 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: jwalsh07

And my opinion stands, as well. I am uninterested in his marriage proceedings, too -- which means the government has no business giving anyone a marriage license, right?


62 posted on 06/29/2004 9:26:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: ken5050

OOOOPSSSS!!! Jinx.....hahahaha!!


63 posted on 06/29/2004 9:26:40 AM PDT by soozla ("F.U. - LONG OVERDUE!!" - BUSH/CHENEY '04)
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To: Alberta's Child

Wrong.


64 posted on 06/29/2004 9:27:30 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
This is really none of my business and I see no reason for the state to be opening records of private citizens against their wishes. Even idiot private citizens.

Divorce records are normally public records open to public review.

65 posted on 06/29/2004 9:28:21 AM PDT by cinFLA
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To: JeeperFreeper

So I vote they go for Big Drunk Ted Kennedy's divorce records next.


66 posted on 06/29/2004 9:28:48 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: cinFLA

I understand that. My dissent from the common wisdom is not based in the law, it is based in common decency.


67 posted on 06/29/2004 9:30:37 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
I understand that. My dissent from the common wisdom is not based in the law, it is based in common decency.

In that the documents are public record, why would they be sealed?

68 posted on 06/29/2004 9:35:16 AM PDT by cinFLA
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To: cinFLA
Usually they are sealed at the request of the parties involved.

The common law has been that court proceedings are presumptively open to the public but not absolutely open to the public. Many records are sealed without public access for many different reasons.

What the exact law is in Mass I don't know.

69 posted on 06/29/2004 9:44:37 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Tacis
unless there is really something that proves how unfit he is the be a Senator
Is there anything that makes one unfit to be a senator ? Teddy K comes to mind...
70 posted on 06/29/2004 9:45:00 AM PDT by 1066AD
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To: jwalsh07
But by far the best route to becoming part of the elite group of people who have convinced judges to make public records private is to speak the cant of confidentiality. In other words, be an attorney.

Probably the same as in Dever County where it has been writtent that the best way to get them sealed is to be an attorney, a judge or related to a judge.

71 posted on 06/29/2004 9:50:21 AM PDT by cinFLA
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To: KMC1

This is one of the few advantages of being widowed. Nobody knows anything about my marriages, which had their lumps. Divorce is a legal thing, a court thing, a most public thing. Any politician who thinks his divorce proceedings are off limits is FAR too stupid to be running loose.


72 posted on 06/29/2004 10:24:02 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: bmwcyle

They might just wait that long. No way Hillary would survive the debates.


73 posted on 06/29/2004 10:26:09 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. And I say let us give them all they want)
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To: jwalsh07; All
This is really none of my business

1. if the documents reveal character flaws that reflect on Kerry's fitness for office, why wouldn't it be your business?
2. civil marriage is an act of the state. Why should those records be sealed any more than someone's criminal records - like W's old DWI?

74 posted on 06/29/2004 10:32:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Alberta's Child
we may one day have the pleasure of suing to have Barney Franks' divorce records unsealed.

I could have gone all day without thinking about that...

But noooooo....

75 posted on 06/29/2004 11:34:34 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Rummyfan

I'm with you. Unsealing Ryan's divorce records only provokes the question; Why would he want to share that?!


76 posted on 06/29/2004 11:49:06 AM PDT by beaver fever
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To: beaver fever

Yes, my teacher in high school looked just like her. NOT!


77 posted on 06/29/2004 12:38:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: vharlow

"In reality, what's at issue is Kerry's credibility. When one takes a vow of marriage, just like any other vow, till death do us part, that's a promise. When one breaks a promise, they break their word."

Ronald Reagan was also divorced - could he be trusted? The argument against Kerry doesn't pass the smell test.


78 posted on 06/29/2004 12:44:38 PM PDT by familyofman (and the first animal is jettisoned - legs furiously pumping)
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To: KMC1
According to Dan Wycliff of the Chicago Tribune, who emailed me yesterday, the only thing sealed in the Kerry case is the financial settlement (whether you believe this is up to you).

You have to ask yourself, then: what's so secret about the financial settlement? My theory; when Kerry divorced Thorne, she was rich and he was poor, so poor he was selling assets in the late 80's just to keep afloat. I suspect under the financial settlement, she was paying him alimony, in name or in effect. You might argue this shouldn't matter, but one has to ask how the public will view the character of a man who's lived off an ex-wife, particularly when he went out and got himself another sugar mommy afterwards.

Just a wild a55 guess, but it fits the facts.

79 posted on 06/29/2004 12:46:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: jwalsh07
My dissent from the common wisdom is not based in the law, it is based in common decency.

Common decency is alas not at all common.

80 posted on 06/29/2004 12:50:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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