Liberal Lunatic of the Day (3/9/2005)

Teresa Heinz Kerry recently told the attendees of a fund-raiser in Seattle, "Nobody told me what to do," The implicit afterword: Nobody better try. The sails of the philanthropist wife of Senator John Kerry were not trimmed by November's narrow electoral defeat.

Environmentalist, Heinz Kerry recently flew into Seattle on her own Gulfstream V jet direct from a conference on global philanthropy at Stanford. She talked energy-efficient building design with Seattle Art Museum boss (and old friend) Mimi Gates.

Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November's election, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes. "Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right Republicans". She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines." "We in the United States are not a banana republic," added Heinz Kerry. She argued that Democrats should insist on "accountability and transparency" in how votes are tabulated. "I fear for '06," she said. "I don't trust it the way it is right now."

She tersely summed up emotions at the end of November's long election night: "No tears, some sadness." I think we should focus on '06: If '06 doesn't work out, '08 will be impossible," she argued. "If it were right for John to do it -- and he felt right -- he would do it again (in 2008). If he didn't feel it right, he wouldn't." Theresa Heinz Kerry campaigned tirelessly -- "When I put out, I put out" -- but seemed to scorn the political wife's expected role of fixing her husband in adoring upward gaze.

At Saturday's fund-raiser, she talked openly about conflicting emotions when confronted with her spouses' ambitions. Born in Mozambique of Portuguese parents, she was married to Republican Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania. Heinz was killed in a 1991 air crash. She inherited her husband's fortune, took charge of Heinz family endowments and married Kerry in 1995.

She responded to nasty questions by a columnist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a paper owned by right-wing mogul Richard Mellon Scaife, using words familiar to many Americans: "Shove it!" The Drudge Report, a popular conservative Web site, missed no opportunity to run unflattering pictures of THK or float untruthful personal rumors about her husband. A gossipy, superficial book on the 2004 campaign by the Washington, D.C., bureau of Newsweek depicted Heinz Kerry as a loose cannon requiring constant maintenance. Heinz Kerry is still steamed at what the Republican attack machine did to her husband. "Think about last year," she said. "Once John had his nomination, the Republicans spent $90 million to destroy his reputation."

"We have to develop a discipline for this party, so the people of this country know more clearly what it is to be a Democrat," she said. "Basically, we are at a crux, a crossroads right now," Heinz Kerry said. "It's no place for self-indulgence. It's no place for looking back. We must be totally committed to this journey ... to believe again, to hope again."

Somebody needs to inform the writer of this puff piece that Teresa dropped "Kerry" from her name in February. During the election the focus was on John Kerry, not Teresa. Now that Teresa Heinz is continuing with her own campaign of funding radical left-wing organizations and agendas through her Tides Foundation she needs a little investigation.

Teresa Heinz Kerry has donated a fortune to the secretive Tides Foundation over the years. The Tides Foundation, a “charity” established in 1976 by antiwar activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in 1996, distributed nearly $66 million in grants in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for the Left. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual activists and open borders advocates.

In one recent year, the Tides Foundation provided grants for 21 activist groups with the word "justice" in their names and 36 with "rights."

The Tides Foundation has funded the Ruckus Society, a group of anarchist greens who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots.

Tides established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund to fund the antiwar movement.

Tides has also given grant money to the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Omar M. Ahmad, the Chairman of the Board of CAIR is on the record as saying, “Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” CAIR's Community Affairs Director Bassem K. Khafagi has been arrested for visa and bank fraud. Randall Royer, a Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR, was arrested along with a group of Islamic radicals in Virginia for allegedly planning jihad.

The Tides Foundation has funded a number of the pillars of the radical legal establishment. Chief among these is the National Lawyers Guild whose most notorious member is Lynne Stewart. Stewart was recently convicted of helping terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, communicate with his terrorist cells in Egypt.

Teresa is currently traveling in her environmentally friendly Gulfstream V which consumes 1 gallon of jet fuel per mile. Now, to haul the environmentally friendly Teresa from Boston to San Francisco to Seattle and back would require 7,200 gallons of jet fuel. Now that's energy-efficient for you. Is this evidence of Heinz's environmental concern or her do what I say, not what I do, you hoi polloi cretins hypocrisy.

No comment on the "put out" remark.

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