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Heinz Kerry visits hurricane aid center ("but let them go naked for a while")
AP ^ | 9/15/2004, 6:05 p.m. ET | SAM DOLNICK

Posted on 09/15/2004 3:35:27 PM PDT by quantim

NEW YORK (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, encouraging volunteers as they busily packed supplies Wednesday for hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean, said she was concerned the effort was too focused on sending clothes instead of essentials like water and electric generators.

"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," said Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. "Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes."

Heinz Kerry stopped by a market in the heart of Brooklyn's Caribbean community, where she spoke French with Haitian vendors and shook hands with volunteers busy packing food, clothes and other relief supplies to be shipped to several Carribean islands hit by Hurricane Ivan. Her husband's campaign donated water, blankets and first aid kits.

"I think it's important we help all the kids we can," Heinz Kerry said.

Ivan swept through the Caribbean last week, killing more than 60 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.

Dr. Roy A. Hastick Sr., president of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and coordinator of the market's relief effort, said the visit helped make difficult days a bit brighter.

"It's a major boost for us and the community to show we have someone on a national level concerned with what's happening in the Caribbean region," Hastick Sr. said.

Supporters gathered on the sidewalk shouted "We love you," and "Good luck" as Heinz Kerry made her way to a waiting car.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: humanitarianrelief; hurricaneivan; kerry; teresaheinz
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To: BenLurkin
"Even in the heat of a political season we should not make up bizarre, impossible quotes and attribute then to public figures."

I have an unimpeachable source....

21 posted on 09/15/2004 3:42:53 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack ("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
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To: quantim
"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids,"

Nitwit.

You wear light loose clothing to protect you from bugs and the sun also to keep from getting hypothermia at night.

Yes you can get hypothermia in the tropics. Get wet, throw in a wind and no protection and the core body temperature of a child can drop very fast.

22 posted on 09/15/2004 3:45:29 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ("Lady Snuggles of the Lethal Yew")
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To: quantim

Did I just read, "....but let them go naked for a while"? I'm laughing so hard I'm about to fall off my chair. Let's face it, kids. Terri wasn't exactly having a Mamie Eisenhower moment there, was she? She'd be a nightmare in the White House. That's one of the reasons I'm happy her husband isn't going to win.


23 posted on 09/15/2004 3:45:43 PM PDT by Rightfootforward
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To: tomnbeverly

SHe even said generators before food.


24 posted on 09/15/2004 3:45:55 PM PDT by formercalifornian (Democrat platform: Hate, hate, hate, hate, tolerance, hate, hate, hate, hate)
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To: smpte
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25 posted on 09/15/2004 3:46:45 PM PDT by adaven (John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!)
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To: grey_whiskers
Let them eat cake. And they call Bush an Elitist??

I say off with her head!

26 posted on 09/15/2004 3:46:53 PM PDT by camboianchristmas (Please feel free to blame my poor spelling on the public school system)
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To: Vermonter
Oh yeah. Tell that to the thousands of kids still without homes in Florida. They've been suffering from heat, humidity and MOSQUITOES for weeks now!

Yes but those are AMERICAN kids, they dont count..

27 posted on 09/15/2004 3:47:30 PM PDT by cardinal4 (John Kerry- "A Hamster Tale..")
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To: LincolnLover

 
 
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28 posted on 09/15/2004 3:47:57 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: quantim

Quick! Turn on the leaf-blower until we can get her muzzle back on!


29 posted on 09/15/2004 3:48:21 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The internet is the newspaper of record.)
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To: quantim

The woman certainly has a way with words!!!!!!!!!!


30 posted on 09/15/2004 3:49:16 PM PDT by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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To: Joy Angela

ping


31 posted on 09/15/2004 3:49:24 PM PDT by KiloLima (September 11, 2001 : Never Forget.)
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To: quantim

Marie Antoinette Heinz


32 posted on 09/15/2004 3:49:25 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: Joy Angela

ping


33 posted on 09/15/2004 3:49:39 PM PDT by KiloLima (September 11, 2001 : Never Forget.)
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To: Joy Angela

ping


34 posted on 09/15/2004 3:49:39 PM PDT by KiloLima (September 11, 2001 : Never Forget.)
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To: Joy Angela

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35 posted on 09/15/2004 3:49:39 PM PDT by KiloLima (September 11, 2001 : Never Forget.)
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To: Joy Angela

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36 posted on 09/15/2004 3:49:47 PM PDT by KiloLima (September 11, 2001 : Never Forget.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
You wear light loose clothing to protect you from bugs and the sun also to keep from getting hypothermia at night.

You forgot to mention Dior, Wang, and Vallentino.

37 posted on 09/15/2004 3:50:18 PM PDT by camboianchristmas (Please feel free to blame my poor spelling on the public school system)
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To: quantim
Homo Sapiens got along quite well with only clothes before the advent of generators and the Lady Tyrant.
38 posted on 09/15/2004 3:50:25 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (I volunteer to instruct JFK on the meaning of a purple heart!!)
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To: quantim

Oh good Lord........and this brainless twit wants to be First Lady. The Dems never cease to floor me........


39 posted on 09/15/2004 3:50:55 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Centurion2000

Her brain is a little rusty. When you have as much money as she does, you can hire people to think for you.


40 posted on 09/15/2004 3:51:35 PM PDT by CriticalJ
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