Posted on 08/27/2014 6:17:46 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Sen. John Kerry on Monday snapped at reporters and tried to dodge questions about his new $7 million, 76-foot yacht.
On Friday, the Boston Herald reported that the Massachusetts Democrat had berthed his yacht Isabel in Rhode Island and suggested he was seeking to avoid paying about $437,000 in sales tax and an annual excise tax of around $70,000 that would be levied if he berthed the vessel in Massachusetts.
Rhode Island has no sales tax on yachts.
Following his first public appearance since the story broke, Kerry tried to dash off to his SUV but was intercepted by reporters who asked about the yacht controversy.
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Hey! He’s a Vietnam vet. Take it easy.
At least I think he is. He never mentions it. Does anyone know for sure?
I heard he was in Cambodia, not Vietnam. But I could be wrong.
No you are correct. President Nixon sent him there in '67.
I think it was Christmas 1968. Nixon inaugural was January 20, 1969.
either way, he still was not President. But you are right, it was ‘68.
Not busting on you at all. Just want to make sure all the libtards reading Jim Thompson’s forum understand they have a clueless idiot for SOS.
BTW, in July 2012 I was in Newport and his Yacht was there.
I didn’t check this year, probably should have.
I find that liberals love a good lie. They relate to it.
The Isabella was in Virgin Gorda in 2012 February, the tax scandal in MA was the summer before.
Isabella is a sailboat, nice boat though… maybe that belonged to Senator Heinz R. PA.. J elfin K’s benefactor married to Nurse Fuzzie Wuzzie?
Check again for “Isabel”.
Where is the scaramouche?
No, it’s a 2004 spoof by the Onion about him using a yacht to campaign.
“Do you know who I am!!?”
:^)
Yea, your that Al Gore clone that once served in Vietnam.
Did I spell it wrong? oh Dear! He was in my presence and had to share space with that butt hole on the same Island nearby…is THAT not punishment enuf?
Gawd…I hate that ass!
I was forced to walk by his stupid boat and he actually kiteboarded near my kid..what a skank.
By Joe Battenfeld | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 | Boston Herald NEWPORT, R.I. — Summer is back in New England and you know what that means — backyard barbecues, traffic tie-ups on the Cape, and the return of one of the most storied sailing vessels on the high seas — U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry’s yacht.
The Herald Truth Squad made a surprise inspection of the $7 million Isabel last week while it was docked in tony Newport, R.I. — a strange location considering it’s the place that landed Kerry in hot water two summers ago.
That’s when the Herald reported that the Massachusetts Democrat was avoiding a six-figure sales tax bill by keeping the luxury yacht in Rhode Island, rather than Massachusetts. The senior senator sustained major political damage, but Kerry eventually paid up and moved the Isabel to his home base of Nantucket.
Kerry’s office told the Truth Squad last week that the Isabel is still registered in Nantucket, and was apparently just making a stopover in Newport.
The super-secret skipper of the Isabel refused to say where the vessel had come from, and why it was docked back in Rhode Island. But other sources said it spent the winter in the Caribbean, and was headed back to Nantucket for Memorial Day weekend.
The skipper, who was wearing a polo shirt emblazoned with “Isabel” on the front, asked the Truth Squad not to take videos or pictures of the yacht’s name.
So we did.
Get bent John F'n Kerry and your sailboats.
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