Mrs. John Kerry -Is this true?

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Mrs. John Kerry -Is this true?
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Mon, 07-12-2004 - 11:58am
BEWARE

" To mention just a few, they support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical

Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona,

California, New Mexico and Texas to Mexico..." but read on, please!

Following is a brief backround on Mrs. John Kerry . She hates being

called that, by the way:

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married Senator

Kerry in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an

"interesting" paradox of conflicts.

If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to

his wife! Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in

Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in

Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working

as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a

"handsome" young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in

Geneva. He told her his family was "in the food business."

They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his

family ran the giant H. J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US

House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the

first of three terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote

a burning diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House

member John Kerry.)

Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided

with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The

senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were

killed. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune,

she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior senator

from Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of

her radicalization was set in motion.

Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry

to sign a prenuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may

not have check writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle

fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it.

A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking

catsup, mustard, and pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who

despise successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory

redistribution of wealth.

So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money?

Just one example:

According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of

WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4

million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does

the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?

They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's

International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein

when he's tried.

They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the

Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The

Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration

from "terrorist" states.

They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose

leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist

front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart,

has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman,

communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind

of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose

primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and

Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the

anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our

would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz,

and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th

President of the United States.

Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America,

regardless of your political views.

If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the real

Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra rich

fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine her

laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the President of

the United States.

Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way

these two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved

invitation in hand.

Instead of deleting this, pass it on. Let everyone know these

people may be unfit to represent this great nation. The uninformed will

never hear the truth from the press, who want Kerry elected!

Those who buy the Kerry facade, beware of what you vote for - - - you

may regret what you get!

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Registered: 06-29-2004
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:13pm
Uh...I am posting it to ask if it is true...I am not coming out and declaring it to be true and then failing to post a link...I received this in an email to me. I don't understand your "bewilderment"...it get's kind of frustrating when people don't pay attention...Sue I never claimed this to be true...I was curious to know if it has been or if someone had more information on the truth it may have...
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:14pm
Teresa inherited the money, but she is a human being with her own free will, and she is under no obligation to now live someone else's life because they left her an estate.

I'm so tired of this flip flop nonsense. If I checked this board before the president said it, I'd likely not find one post saying Kerry flip flops. The president says it, so now all his minions parrot it.

The president said in 2000 same sex marriage was a states issue.

The president ran in 2000 as a uniter.

The president ran in 2000 as a compassionate conservative.

The president ran in 2000 as the education president.

See a pattern here? People change their positions... and we want leaders who can adjust to the circumstances. I'm sure if you went point by point with John Kerry on his record, it would make perfect sense. Much of it has been taken out of context to show a change of position.

Whatever, it is politics, and this happens.

The Teresa factor is one that gets me ticked... because she is a strong, confident woman who gives her opinion, people are going to cut her down, just as they did Hilary, Janet Reno, Katherine Harris, and now Nancy Pelosi.

You don't have to agree with her, but please don't make her sound like she is undeserving of holding an opinion and standing for what she believes.

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Registered: 06-29-2004
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:15pm
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When in the high world did this happen?

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Registered: 03-24-2003
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:18pm
I don't either... more power to any woman who stands for what she believes. I respect Condoleezza, doesn't mean I agree with her... if someone started cutting her down in ways that smacked of sexism, I'd be just as ticked.
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:24pm
Well said, and hope one day we will be applauding a strong, confident man supporting his partner as president.
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Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:33pm
First, the White House's own website has the story: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040520-1.html

Next, we'll move on to an interview published by USA Today in June 2000. A few excerpts:

"After a few speeches, he asked her - coming up the driveway on the way home from one - how his delivery was going over. Terrible, said the forthright wife. George W. drove his Pontiac Bonneville right into the garage wall."

AND

"She considered herself a Democrat before marrying George W."

AND (talk about skeletons in the First Lady's closet!)

"When she was 17, she was involved in a fatal accident, driving through a stop sign and hitting a car operated by a high school friend. He died. She refers to it as ''a very tragic time in my life.'' No charges were brought."


http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e2147.htm

06/23/00- Updated 01:58 PM ET

Laura Welch Bush: Shy no more

By John Hanchette, Gannett News Service

HOUSTON - Laura Bush is talking to a few reporters here after her rousing keynote address to the Texas state Republican convention on behalf of her husband the governor, who is campaigning elsewhere for president. Outside the hall, about 20 protesters are demonstrating loudly against the death penalty and George W. Bush, whose tenure has seen 135 convicts executed as of June 22.

Does she support her husband's position on the death penalty, a reporter asks? The question is an obvious trap. Laura Bush glares, then smiles.

''If I differ with my husband,'' she snaps, ''I'm not going to tell you about it - sorry.'' She handles the rest of the media quizzing with similar dispatch.

Her successful Houston appearance in mid-June resonated with political significance. In her confident delivery, reliance on humor, forceful demeanor on the dais, and relaxed response to press questions, Laura Bush, 53, conclusively turned upside down a once-standard media description that portrayed her as shy, remote, and somewhat reclusive in matters political.

She had come a long way from her first stand-in campaign speech for her husband - 22 years ago on the courthouse steps in Muleshoe, Texas, where she meekly ran out of words in an attempt to boost her new husband's unsuccessful run for Congress.

While here, she explained part of her transformation:

''Many of you know that I was somewhat reluctant initially about this presidential campaign. I was worried about its impact on our family. I knew it would be hard to see someone I loved criticized.''

Now, increasingly called upon during several tough primaries and a heating-up presidential race, this former elementary schoolteacher and librarian has campaigned in 25 states - and has discovered two helpful things: Attentive Americans seem to like her (''Ours is a beautiful country, full of caring and loving people''), and her husband's method of dealing with criticism seems to work.

''He calls it his 'news blackout.' If the first sentence of a television story is too negative, George does what many men do. He yells for the remote. Not a bad idea.''

She is warming to the task. Once the GOP national convention ends the first week of August, she said, ''I will do a lot of campaigning on my own'' - about two-thirds of the time with her husband, the rest solo. She will take a couple of weeks off to help 18-year-old twin daughters Jenna (University of Texas) and Barbara (Yale) get ready for college: ''Then I'll hit the road - I want other people in America to know him like I do.''

Things were not always so smooth. For much of her life, Laura Welch was ''so uninterested in politics.'' Even though they lived for a time at different ends of the same apartment complex, she turned down a couple of suggested dates with George W. Bush. Finally, she attended a back-yard barbecue thrown by mutual friends. He made her laugh. He was a great talker. She was a great listener. Both in their 30s, they married three months after their first date. There was no honeymoon. They hit his congressional campaign trail the day after the wedding.

After a few speeches, he asked her - coming up the driveway on the way home from one - how his delivery was going over. Terrible, said the forthright wife. George W. drove his Pontiac Bonneville right into the garage wall.

If there's another political impact looming on Laura Bush's campaign horizon, it may be intensifying criticism from feminists and abortion supporters regarding her ability to let George W. get away with foot-in-mouth chauvinist statements. He once told a Texas writer Laura was ''the perfect wife for a governor'' because she refrained from ''trying to butt in and always, you know, compete.''

Once the presidential campaign heats up, here are some things Americans will read and hear about Laura Bush that they may not know now:

Her 1981 pregnancy with the twins was troubled and dangerous. Toxemia threatened her kidneys, and a Caesarean delivery was performed five weeks before her due date, with Barbara and Jenna, named after the grandmothers, weighing just over and under 5 pounds, respectively.

When she was 17, she was involved in a fatal accident, driving through a stop sign and hitting a car operated by a high school friend. He died. She refers to it as ''a very tragic time in my life.'' No charges were brought.



She quietly takes vigorous vacations with female friends: to Belize for bird-watching, or the Grand Canyon for rafting.

Her wifely pressure on George W. to quit drinking was effectively gauged; she told him it was ''necessary'' and he finally quit cold in 1986 after a thunderous hangover from a 40th birthday celebration at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.



She was once a steady cigarette smoker, beginning as a teen by sneaking Winstons in a backseat crouch in friends' cars. She quit about eight years ago.

She considered herself a Democrat before marrying George W.

He's messy; she's so neat she cleans out the medicine cabinet to relax.

She will take on counterpart Tipper Gore in a ''cookie cook-off contest'' sponsored by Family Circle magazine, her ''chocolate cowboy cookies'' vying with Tipper's ginger snaps.

Her nickname for her husband is ''Bushie.''

Her reputation in Texas, especially for favorite causes like early education and literacy, is very good. She has also been effective in funding for the arts and breast cancer awareness. A voracious reader, Laura four years ago organized the Texas Book Festival, which celebrates state authors and has raised $900,000 so far for stocking 350 public libraries in the state.

Laura Welch never anticipated a life in politics. Her father, Harold, was a successful real estate developer who died five years ago, and she wanted to be a teacher from the time she was a little girl. Even before elementary school, she would line up her many dolls to lecture and instruct them.

Laura Welch's entry into the high-profile Bush family - easily as competitive and frenetic as the Kennedy clan - was not seamless. Brother-in-law Marvin wisecracked it was a bit like Katharine Hepburn appearing in the movie ''Animal House.'' On one of her first trips to the family vacation compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, the new wife was asked by her husband's formidable grandmother what she did. She shot back that she read and she smoked. No more prying questions.

This curt side of her also surfaced in an ABC News interview last month. Barbara Walters asked Laura Bush if she had given her husband any advice during the primary campaigns. While acknowledging ''we talk about issues,'' the first lady of Texas said: ''I don't give him a lot of advice. I really don't think George wants a lot of advice from me.''

According to the network's transcript, the governor protested: ''That's not true.''

Well, countered his wife, ''I don't want a lot of advice from him.''

One thing they agree upon - the centerpiece of his six years as governor - is the importance of effective education. If he's elected, Laura Bush says, she intends to use the White House as a bully pulpit ''in being very active on issues I know a lot about'' - specifically, in pushing for greater literacy.

''Education is dear to both of our hearts,'' she says. Even political critics in Texas acknowledge education has improved there during his tenure.

Laura Bush makes a point of this in all of her speeches now, sometimes humorously. She noted at the GOP state convention here that her husband's rival, Vice President Al Gore, often visits schools and frequently spends the night before interviewing teachers in their homes.

''Well,'' smiled Laura Bush mischievously, ''George spends every night with a teacher.''

The crowd of partisans howled approval.

For an admitted introvert, Laura Bush remarkably has evolved into a very effective speaker. She has become a master of the indirect reference - most notably in evoking the well-known behavioral troubles of President Clinton without mentioning him.

When she and her husband make campaign stops now, she told the convention here, it is increasingly common for ''mothers and dads and grandparents to hold out pictures of their children and grandchildren. And they say to George 'I'm counting on you - I want my son or daughter to respect the president of the United States.' ''

This line brings Republicans to their feet, cheering, stomping, and chanting ''Bush! Bush! Bush!''

The once-quiet librarian has no trouble selling this. She says she always finds the held-out pictures of children ''touching, and compelling.''

Her standard closing line isn't bad, either. Noting the empty-nest syndrome is affecting both of them with the twins going off to college, she and the governor are building a getaway ranch near tiny Crawford, Texas - where sometime in the future they hope to see grandchildren at play:

''One day, God willing, George will make a fabulous grandfather. In the meantime, though, he'll make a darn good president.''

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:35pm
Oh....how can I tell it it's true if you didn't give us the source, just random snippets?

Please, next time you give us info, copy and paste the actual link in the thread so we can go and investigate it for ourselves. If it was on TV or in a newpaper, give us the name of the publication or show. It would be very helpful.

:o)

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Registered: 08-22-2003
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:35pm
Even better would be a strong, confident man/woman supporting his/her wife, the President.
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:36pm
Every time I read of her, her thoughts, etc... I come away more impressed. Wish she could be president.
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Mon, 07-12-2004 - 3:40pm
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Thanks for posting that... great article :-)

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