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Teresa Simoes-Ferreira

In an interview with Newsweek this week, Kerry and his wife, Teresa (full name: Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry)

dau. of José Simões-Ferreira and of Irene Thierstein

[ Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry ]

AH! hah... good work..

Thanks for Ms Ketchup's full name. Right off the bat I found the following at Insight Magazine. The fast-growing Muslim minority here in Seattle are out to skewer Bush. Kerry isn't going to be a candidate they support when they find out he has Jewish heritage.

From Insight Magazine:

"-- In Irish-American Massachusetts it's not unusual for politicians with no Irish forebears to lie about it. For instance, the former boss of the state senate, now president of the University of Massachusetts, was of Lithuanian descent but hailed from South Boston, an Irish enclave, and besides his brother is fugitive killer Whitey Bulger, crime boss of the infamous Irish Mafia. That was Irish enough.

"-- So Massachusetts locals only cringed when it turned out recently that Democratic Sen. John Kerry's family name was changed from Kohn in 1902, and without any record of conversion from Judaism to Catholicism.

"-- Of more concern to savvy Beantownies was Kerry's pretense, and that of Boston journalists, not to have known that grandfather Fritz Kohn shot himself to death in the Coply Plaza Hotel men's room in 1921, a story that then ran on the front pages of three Boston newspapers.

"-- So what else has Kerry been lying about? Well there was that business about not really throwing his medals from Vietnam over the White House fence. But as for having lied about his health earlier this year after being informed he had prostate cancer, you see, Kerry hadn't yet told his sisters. And naturally they were sensitive because his father had died of prostate cancer after having had the surgery, and ...

"-- Does John Kerry's character problem explain why his billionaire wife, Teresa Heinz, still uses her first husband's name? Maybe one moniker is as good as any other in that family. The name with which Teresa was raised in her native Africa: Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira."