John Kerry's wife...
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| Sat, 08-14-2004 - 5:07pm |
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 think 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.

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oops. that doesn't fit. Must be your weather we envy.
Edited 8/23/2004 4:26 pm ET ET by nicecanadianlady
<<Those reservists currently fighting in Iraq, do you see them as 'lesser' than their compatriots who enlisted for 'active duty'? Did Kerry have a job then and this is why is enlisted in the reserves (I don't have a clue)? There was a war going on then, wasn't there? If someone enlists NOW for the reserve, don't they know they could be going to Iraq? Isn't there chance of getting into a war zone higher than an average joe being drafted (assuming there was a draft)?
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Ahhh, but you see, that has been the arguement all along with Bush's ANG service, and the Dems wouldn't accept any of the things you brought up in Kerry's defense.
BTW, he didn't have a job. After graduated, he wanted to go to school in Paris, but his draft board turned down his request for a defferment, so, remarkably like George Bush, he joined the reserves.
Renee ~~~
Renee ~~~
FACTS:
This is an internet based smear that has been repeatedly shot down. Neither Teresa Heinz Kerry nor the Heinz Foundation has funded Fidel Castro or Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Each of these rumors is based on a false assumption by a right-wing group that has a political and personal grudge against Teresa Heinz Kerry and John Kerry. They are ridiculous allegations made and rejected.
The Heinz Foundation and the Tides Foundation have repeatedly pointed out that these accusations are false, have written letters to newspapers and have posted public responses on both their websites. Further, independent analysis by FactCheck.org has found that these allegations are “false rumors used as political weapons."
The Tides Foundation has not received "millions of dollars from foundations controlled by Teresa Heinz Kerry" as has been reported. The only money the Tides Foundation has ever received from The Heinz Endowments -- or any of its related organizations -- comes from three grants, totaling $230,000 and dispensed between 1994 and 1998. These were to support a pollution prevention initiative and to promote green design and other environmentally friendly practices by industries in Western Pennsylvania.
These monies are very much not "fungible". Each Tides Center project raises their own funds for their program activities and pays Tides Center less than 10% for fiscal sponsorship and administrative services such as insurance, payroll services, tax reporting, etc.
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=224#
In 2003, Teresa Heinz Kerry received the Women's Leadership Award from the Save the Children organization for her efforts to improve the lives of children throughout the world. In April 2003, she received the World Ecology Award from the International Center for Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri. In June, she was among the women honored by the Boston YWCA in the Women Achievers' Class of 2003 and the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus presented her with a lifetime achievement award. And in September 2003, she was presented with the Albert Schweitzer Gold medal for Humanitarianism at Johns Hopkins University for her work in protecting the environment, promoting health care and education, and uplifting women and children throughout the world.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has been named Carlow College's National Woman of Spirit. She received the Community Service Human Rights Award from the American Jewish Committee. Along with Senator Kerry, she shared the Boston Bar Foundation's prestigious John and Abigail Adams Award. She has been awarded the Art Rooney Award from the Catholic Youth Association of Pittsburgh; and she received the first ever Gold Medal conferred by the American Institute of Architects in Pittsburgh.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is a trustee of the Brookings Institution. She also sits on the Visiting Committee for the Kennedy School and the school-wide environmental committee for Harvard University, serves on the board of the American Institute for Public Service (which confers the Jefferson Awards), and is an emerita trustee of Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, she was recently elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Beloit College (Wisconsin), the University of Massachusetts (Boston), Bank Street College of Education (New York), Pine Manor College and Clark University (Massachusetts), Carnegie Mellon University, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Washington and Jefferson College and Carlow College.
Teresa Simoes-Ferreira was born and raised in Mozambique in East Africa. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in romance languages and literature (French, Italian, and Portuguese) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She speaks five languages. After graduating from the Interpreters School of the University of Geneva, she worked for the United Nations in New York. She has three sons, John, Andre, and Christopher Heinz, and two stepdaughters, Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry. She is the almost inordinately (but understandably) proud grandmother of one grand child.
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/teresa_heinz_kerry/philanthropy.html
An Environmental Visionary
In 1995, when the UTNE Reader named 100 Visionaries, Teresa Heinz Kerry was included as someone who had left "the outdated dichotomy of environmental protection versus economic development in her wake." Later that year, the trustees of the Vira Heinz Endowment announced a $20 million grant (one of the largest environmental grants ever made), to create the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. The Heinz Center, based in Washington, is dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy through collaboration among industry, government, academic, and environmental organizations. This four-sector approach is unique to the Heinz Center.
In September 2002, the Heinz Center published the results of a long-awaited pioneering project assessing, on the basis of the objective data available, the state of America's ecosystems. (The State of the Nation's Ecosystems, Cambridge University Press, 2002) The study is the product of five years' work by nearly 150 individuals from environmental organizations, businesses, universities, and federal, state, and local governments. The distinguished journal Biodiversity noted that "the highly anticipated report…is a succinct and comprehensive ---yet unbiased and scientifically sound--- examination of the current state of the nation's lands, waters, and living resources." The volume has been hailed as invaluable not only for decision makers in government and environmental organizations, businesses, and trade associations; and for academics with a research or teaching interest in environmental issues; but also for a general public interested in the continued well-being of American ecosystems. The AEI Environmental Policy Outlook said the Heinz report "provides a road map for future research necessary for policymakers to set sensible priorities."
The Heinz Center's State of the Nation's Ecosystems project is ongoing, and the published report will be regularly updated; the next edition will appear in 2007.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is vice chairman of the Heinz Center's board and a longtime board member of Environmental Defense, one of the nation's leading environmental organizations. In 1992, she was one of ten representatives from non-governmental organizations attached to the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) in Brazil. (It was at this conference in Rio de Janiero that she first got to know another delegate --- Senator John Kerry. Three years later, on May 26, 1995, they were married on Nantucket.)
She has endowed a professorship in environmental management at the Harvard Business School and a chair in environmental policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In addition, she has established the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research --- annual awards to provide support for individuals writing doctoral dissertations or a master's thesis, or for project enhancement, for research and solutions on emerging environmental issues. All research must have public policy relevance that increases society's understanding of environmental problems and their solutions. In 1996 she created the John Heinz Environmental Fellows Program for the United Negro College Fund. These fellowships are open to students enrolled full-time in UNCF institutions majoring in science with an environmental emphasis.
As a member of the Advisory Board for the Earth Communications Office, she helped to pioneer an internationally acclaimed public service campaign promoting citizen environmental action in countries around the globe. Similarly, she sponsored The Environminute and The World ECO Minute, a daily radio campaign reaching citizens in more than 100 countries, and HealthWeek, a weekly PBS-produced program with a strong focus on women's health and the environment. She helped to conceptualize and launch Second Nature, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the development of an environmentally literate citizenry. She is a co-founder of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning and serves on the Advisory Council for the Center for Children's Health and the Environment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
A Women's Advocate
Teresa Heinz Kerry has been an advocate for women and at the forefront of women's issues for more than 30 years. She attended the first meeting of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus in 1972. In 1974, she was a co-founder of the Women's Campaign Fund, a bipartisan effort to generate financial support for women who run for public office.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has helped to educate women on the vital importance of pensions and savings to their retirement security. To further this work, in 1996, she established the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER), a Washington-based think tank. She underwrote both the publication of a nationally acclaimed book, Pensions in Crisis and the creation and production of a magazine supplement ----What Every Woman Needs to Know About Money and Retirement---- that was published in Good Housekeeping and in US Airway's Attaché magazine, and has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. In March 1999, she testified before a House Ways and Means Committee in Washington on the circumstances and needs of poor elderly women in America.
Since 1995, she has sponsored and hosted annual conferences open to the public on Women's Health and the Environment in Boston, bringing women together with health, environmental, and policy experts. She believes that the conventional concept of the environment -- involving only the traditional "green" issues such as air and water quality -- is no longer adequate to the lives that people (and especially women) live today. The design of office equipment and work systems, the architecture of the built environment, and the extent of chemical and pesticide exposure all have significant implications for women's health and well being. The Women's Health and the Environment conferences (the eighth will be held in October in Boston) examine key health issues confronting women in the workplace and the home, including sick building syndrome, ergonomics, and the significance of the workplace as a public health issue. Attended by more than a thousand women annually, these conferences have increased public understanding of the special health risks facing women from the physical and cultural environment, of the diverse sources of disease, and of the need for public policies that protect women's health.
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/teresa_heinz_kerry/citizen.html
A Committed Citizen
Teresa Heinz Kerry has long been an advocate for human rights and for economic, scientific and creative freedom. Some of her earliest childhood memories reflect her family’s experience, as Portuguese citizens living in the African colony of Mozambique, of being disenfranchised second-class citizens (a designation that was even noted on their passports). As a college student in South Africa during the late 1950’s, she saw at first hand--and joined in protests against--the unfairness and brutality of the apartheid regime. “That remembrance,” she told a meeting of the American Jewish Committee’s Philadelphia chapter, “propels me to stand tall for those who cannot stand.”
In 1977 she was part of the core group that, the next year, became Senate Wives for Soviet Jewry. Russian Jews who wanted to immigrate to Israel were being held in the Soviet Union, trapped in a nightmare of legalistic constraints and bureaucratic muddle (with a strong and ugly undercurrent of anti-Semitism running not far below the surface). A number of leading scientists and intellectuals known as the “refuseniks” (including Anatoly Scharansky and Iosif Begun) were also being held in the gulag as Prisoners of Conscience. In order to bring the pressure of public opinion to bear on the Soviet government to observe internationally accepted standards of human rights, the Congressional Wives group organized high-profile events including letter-writing campaigns and silent vigils in front of the Soviet Embassy. As an original member and later co-chair, Teresa Heinz helped to arrange conferences and traveled widely to speak on behalf of the organization. In 1984, she helped to sponsor and conduct a conference in Washington with wives of MPs from Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel and the Netherlands; the groups met with White House and congressional officials and were addressed by Elie Wiesel. In 1987, she helped to organize and lead a small delegation to the Soviet Union. In a series of unprecedented meetings in Moscow, the Congressional Wives met with “refuseniks” (Jews the Soviet government refused permission to emigrate to Israel) from two women’s groups and were the first non-official group allowed to take their case directly to Soviet emigration officials.
“This is an age of heroes,” Teresa Heinz told audiences when she reported on the trip, “but our heroes frequently have foreign-sounding names: Brailovsky, Slepak, Nudel, Orlov, Rudenko, Murzhenko, Federov, Klevanov, Scharansky and Prestin. And each of these symbolizes countless other brave, nameless men and women who dare to speak out against a repressive Soviet state that ruthlessly, brutally and cynically seeks to deny them the most elementary human freedoms.”
In 1977, with three young children at home, Teresa Heinz became involved in organizing what became, in 1978, the National Council for Children and Television (which later became the National Council for Families and Television).
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