BROWNIE POINTS (Mrs. Heinz-Kerry bakes brownies for the press)

American Spectator ^ | 09/03/03 | The Prowler

[Pokey78]

So what was in those brownies? Perhaps in hopes of doping up the press corps that covered Sen. John Kerry's Tuesday announcement that he is running for president, Kerry's trophy wife, Terry Kerry (she of Heinz family fortune fame), passed around a tray of brownies she claimed she'd baked. Reporters on the flight down to Charleston gobbled them up, then proceeded to oversell attendance at the event in front of the USS Yorktown. Conservative estimates put attendance at about 200 to 250 people. Hallucinatory press reports put that number at upwards of 400 or more. On a happier note, no one in the small crowd was said to be French-looking.

[ClaireSolt]

All that hoop-la for 250 -400 people! amazing! Anyone else notice how he is trying to out Bush Bush? this whole election is starting to look like some sort of Yale alumni ego contest , anyway. It galls those other Yalies that Bush is President, but Bush learned a long time ago that Yale could be a liability in a Texas election when le lost to a grad of Texas A & M.
Just after the black out what we really need is a class warrior who attacks big oil, & opposes windmills off shore & drilling in Anwar in a region where people are so backward and their leaders are so weak that they still heat their homes with petroleum and allow their electrical grid to decay. Give us a president from anywhere but the Northeast!

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Like hell she baked them. She likely told her assistant to get the hired help to whip 'em up pronto and to make damn sure they do not make eye contact with her again.

[upchuck]

Probably microwave brownies.

Alice B Toklas anyone? I could tell you a story... but I won't. LOL

[Paleo Conservative]

Conservative estimates put attendance at about 200 to 250 people. Hallucinatory press reports put that number at upwards of 400 or more. On a happier note, no one in the small crowd was said to be French-looking.

Sounds like they were either fudging the numbers or they were special brownies.

[NormsRevenge]

Tue Sep 2, 6:23 PM ET

Democratic presidential hopeful and U.S. Senator John Kerry buys frozen yogurt cones for campaign workers, supporters and passersby, in Des Moines, Iowa, September 2, 2003. Slipping in the polls and searching for a spark to ignite his White House bid, the U.S. senator from Massachusetts formally launched his run for the Democratic nomination in 2004, drawing on his past as a war hero before heading to Iowa, site of the first major election test in January. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

[NormsRevenge]

Mon Sep 1,11:11 PM ET

Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry (R) reaches after his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry (L) to get a brownie as she passes out homemade brownies to members of the media aboard his campaign plane September 1, 2003 enroute from Washington, D.C. to Charleston, South Carolina. Kerry will officially announce his campaign for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination in South Carolina on September 2. REUTERS/Jim Bourg