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If anyone has some major rehabilitation work to do in the new year, it is Teresa Heinz Kerry. As the Kerrys head for their swank vacation home this year without the press corps tallying how much it cost, or the Secret Service following too closely on the slopes, the might-have-been first lady and still extremely major philanthropist has some major thinking to do about the damage she did to her own reputation in the major run that just ended.

Chris Heinz must want revenge. It's only been a few weeks since his stepdad, John Kerry, lost the election, but Heinz is already telling friends that he plans to run for public office one day himself-in Pittsburgh, his family's stronghold... Strong-willed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz gave President Bush her two cents after a Vogue shoot at the White House. The fashion bible has a tradition of featuring the president after every election, so they rushed Leibovitz and feature editor Julia Reed down to D.C. on Nov. 11 to get the story in time for the January issue. But after the...

In a surprise announcement, Al Gore’s cable channel has announced the cancellation of what he and other insiders had hoped would be a series to electrify the 18-24 year old voter demographic in the 2004 election. But as the election neared on November 2nd, industry watchers admitted candidly that the show, “The Two Johns,” about two multi-millionaire attorneys on a quest to wrest the White House from Republican control, had not found the right mix of hip humor, adolescent angst, and political pizzazz to wrest young viewers from such hits as “Pimp My Ride” and “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report.” Former Vice...

A Montgomery County judge unsealed yesterday portions of a civil lawsuit brought by Teresa Heinz Kerry over the 1991 death of her first husband, U.S. Sen. John Heinz. Judge Paul W. Tressler's ruling was a split decision for the parties - Heinz Kerry and The Inquirer. While he unsealed all pleadings, motions, petitions and orders, Tressler said that discovery materials in the lawsuit file could be kept secret. Tressler ordered the file be open for public inspection on Monday. But yesterday afternoon, the state Supreme Court granted Heinz Kerry's attorneys a stay that would keep the file closed until the...

She says that like it's a bad thing. In a Boston Herald article ("Kerry steeling himself for visit to Heinz territory", 1/23/2002), Teresa Heinz Kerry revealed her true feelings about the Packers loyalists. She mentioned that, at the 1996 Super Bowl, Green Bay Packer fans were "partying harder than anyone she had ever seen". "I've never seen fans drink so much," she said.

If she becomes first lady, Teresa Heinz Kerry intends to champion the cause of health care reform, much the same way Hillary Clinton did in 1994. And just like Hillary, Teresa has her husband's backing. In Jan. 2003, Heinz Kerry told the Boston Herald that she expects to be an "activist first lady." And her first priority would be to create a "Department of Wellness" that would stress preventive health reforms. Until recently, Teresa's Department of Wellness had been consigned to the dustbin of wacky campaign ideas. Or so it seemed. Then In September, John Kerry told a North Carolina...

A blogger on the official John Kerry campaign Web site has offered a telling insight into the Kerry campaign in her account (since removed) of a December campaign party. "We had 200 guests eating, drinking, and watching the MoveOn documentary 'Uncovered,' featuring Joseph Wilson and Rand Beers from the Kerry campaign," wrote blogger Pamela Leavey, describing a Kerry event that did not include John Kerry himself. "When Theresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the center: 'Asses of Evil' with 'Bush,' 'Cheney,' 'Rumsfeld,' and 'Ashcroft.' surrounding it." Asses of Evil — get it? And how fitting...

"I don't know that she's ever had a real job," Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Sen. John Kerry, said of Laura Bush this week. That says something about both Mrs. Kerry and those involved in her husband's campaign for president. What it says ought to anger those who toil day in, day out working to educate American children. Mrs. Bush, as most people know, worked for several years as a school teacher, then as a librarian before meeting and marrying her husband, George W. Bush, who went on to become president. Mrs. Kerry is, of course, known for refusing to...

All right, ladies and gentlemen, as you gaze out over the country, and as you watch the news each and every day, do you not get the impression that love is in the air? Do you not? I do. I look out over the country. I watch the news each and every day and I see the party of love. I see the party of warmth, of feelings. I see that party reaching out to all of us. The Democrats, yes, the party of love, they offer understanding. They offer compassion. They are reaching out to those in need with...

. . . . . Which brings me to the puzzling outcome of Tessie's Cuba Libra. Tessie's Cuba Libra is a cover story I wrote in July about the Tides Foundation donating money to the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), whose Toronto-based Canadian affiliate used an underwater cable link from Havana to Sprint in the United States, to connect Fidel Castro's Cuba to the World Internet. The Institute for Global Communications made no bones about where they got their money. The Heinz endowments, two foundations with combined assets of more than $1 billion, have donated $8 million to the Tides...

"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," Teresa Heinz Kerry said last month to New York relief workers sending supplies to victims of Hurricane Ivan. "Let's just say that remark probably wasn't in her talking points," said one Democratic source described at the time as being close to the Kerry campaign. The recent diversion from the talking points by the woman John Kerry's daughters reportedly refer to as "Step Money" came in an interview with USA Today, in which Teresa apparently decided First Lady Laura Bush was "fair game" for attack: "Well,...

Millionaires Raising Millions Bush and Kerry have new major donors in common Millionaires to spare personal assets Based on a new Center analysis of financial disclosure forms, the two presidential candidates are millionaires, though none can use more than $50,000 of his own money unless he opts out of federal matching funds. Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry have a disclosed worth of as much as $747 million, but the most that Senator Kerry can lay claim to as his own is $14.8 million of those assets. The bulk of the fortune belongs to Heinz Kerry, though the two...

Teresa Heinz Kerry was at the Neil Road Recreation Center [Reno, NV] this afternoon pitching her husbands proposals for improving health care and shoring up Social Security...She drew laughs talking about a treatment for arthritis she had heard about: eating gin-soaked raisins.

Teresa Heinz Kerry Releases 2003 Tax Info; Paid Over $798,000 in Federal, State Income Taxes Fri Oct 15 2004 17:44:41 ET Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry announced today that she has filed her final 2003 federal tax forms and as she said promised last spring, has released the top two pages of her 1040 tax filings. Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $798,820 in state and federal income taxes in 2003, approximately 35 percent of her gross taxable income, according to figures and federal tax forms she released today. Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $627,150 in federal income taxes on gross taxable income of...

What is the story about John Kerry's first wife? I heard that while she was ill, he divorced her. Is this true? Does anyone know any details?

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, attacked the Bush administration on all fronts Thursday during a speech to 1,100 mostly Democratic supporters at the McDonald Theatre downtown. Bush-Cheney supporters in the crowd chanted "four more years, four more years" at the start of Heinz Kerry's speech. The first such group - five or six men and women in their early 20s - left without incident, theater operator Kit Kesey said. The second group - three men - scuffled briefly with the crowd and were being pushed toward an exit when police escorted them out. Police made...

...Talking about health care, Vice President Dick Cheney noted that his opponent set up a personal corporation that allowed him to avoid paying $600,000 in Medicare taxes.... Senator Edwards responded that he had paid all the taxes he owed -- which was never in dispute -- and that he favored the closing of all such loopholes. "They ought to be closed whether they're personal, and they ought to be closed whether they apply to a corporation," he averred.... Democrats have made much out of the fact that Vice President Cheney still receives deferred compensation from his former company, Halliburton, even...

"Vote early and vote often" has long been the Democrat establishment's slogan. Now, as the party cranks up its election fraud machine more zealously than ever before, Teresa Heinz Kerry has a slight update: "Vote often and vote well." That's what the aspiring first lady said during a recent appearance in Minneapolis. When readers first alerted us, we found the claims too outrageous to believe, but we tracked down her quotation in the liberal St. Paul Pioneer Press. There is one positive aspect to the appallingly cynical comment: At least she didn't say it in a Chicago cemetery.

TAKE A LETTER, TERESA Note to Teresa Heinz Kerry. Pipe down. It's not that you have an opinion, it's that we're tired of your frothing rants, ludicrous assertions and red-faced tirades. Honestly, out here in middle American we find you to be loud and rude and immature. The fact of the matter, quite simply, is that you aren’t the nominee and we don’t give a damn what you think. You have no voting record by which we can judge your background and competence. You have no history of leadership in either the state or federal political arena. All we see...