Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry

[jim_g_goldwing]

(passing along an interesting note I recently received... as if we in Freeper-land really need another reason NOT to vote for Kerry)

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry

Just few notes on Mrs. John Kerry (She hates being called that, by the way!)

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married to Senator Kerry in 1995, she only took his name eighteen months ago. She is an interesting paradox of conflicts. I thought John Kerry was scary, but 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, and 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 checkwriting 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.

If voters will only try to imagine a woman such as Teresa Heinz Kerry, the fairy godmother of the radical left, laying her head on a pillow each night just inches from the President of the United States, hopefully they will decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the WhiteHouse is with an engraved invitation in hand.

[bitt]

why didn't Larry King ask Thhhhheeerrraaayyysaaa about these connections to Hamas, etc.?

Why doesn't ANYBODY ask about these connections? I would love to hear her answers, they would be SO stupid, and JF'nK would have to stop kicking her under the table and resort to a one-two punch to the jaw.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Rome2000]

How in Gods name does a woman worth a Billion dollars have such bad hair?

[muawiyah]

Looks like J Kerry is a major beneficiary of "Big Oil". That Sun Oil Company helicopter sure wasn't an Oscar-Meyer Weiner!

[Rome2000]

She would make a great first lady of France.

Born in Mozambique, fluent in five languages, she has combined compassion and common sense to become a force for innovation and social progress as leader of one of the nation's largest private foundations.

After studying in South Africa and Switzerland, she moved to the United States to work for the United Nations. In 1966, she married Senator John Heinz, with whom she had three sons. Shortly after celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in 1991, she lost her husband in a plane crash.

Turning down offers to run for her husband's Senate seat, she became chair of The Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies. Under her leadership, the Heinz foundations are widely known for developing innovative strategies to protect the environment, improve education and the lives of young children, broaden economic opportunity, and promote the arts.

She started advocating for women early, attending the first meeting of the Women's Political Caucus in Pennsylvania in 1972. She established the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement in 1996 to educate women about pensions, savings, and retirement security.

Their mutual interest in environmental issues brought Teresa and John together. She was first introduced to John Kerry by Senator Heinz at an Earth Day rally in 1990. In 1992, she ran into Kerry at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where she was representing U.S. non-governmental organizations. In 1993 they began dating, and were married in the presence of her three sons and his two daughters on Memorial Day weekend in 1995.

[JMK]

"Just few notes on Mrs. John Kerry Terrykerry (She hates being called that, by the way!)"

If she hates "Mrs. Kerry", then being reduced to a one-word name has really got to drive her up the wall!

[Dallas59]

I refuse to buy Heinz products. I wonder if there is a list of products they make and/or produce for other companies?

[abclily]

She established a career? As what?

[Dallas59]

Company (NYSE: HNZ) 600 Grant St. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (Map) Phone: 412-456-5700 Fax: 412-456-6128

http://www.heinz.com

Forget those original 57 varieties: H.J. Heinz now has thousands of products. One of the world's largest food producers, Heinz produces ketchup, condiments, sauces, frozen foods, beans, and pasta. Heinz controls 60% of the US ketchup market. Its customers include US and international food retailers, the food service industry, and the US military. The company's leading brands include Ore-Ida frozen potatoes and Weight Watchers foods. In 2002 Heinz sold its seafood, North American pet food, US baby food, and US private-label soup businesses to Del Monte Foods. Capital Research and Management Company owns about 11% of Heinz.

[Kay Ludlow]

Tides Foundation also provides support to the various enviro-whacko groups, including those who want to "Re-Wild" North America and return it to its pre-columbian state...

She's also starting some new Western Pennsylvania Tides, whose focus seems to be funding land acquisition to sell to the government to start the core wild areas process (as well as working with DCNR to ensure the only allowable use of these new lands is non-human).

[Starboard]

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.

Says it all.

[DoctorMichael]

How in Gods name does a woman worth a Billion dollars have such bad hair?

...........Because, like Bill Clinton, she can.

[mountaineer]

How in Gods name does a woman worth a Billion dollars have such bad hair?

Something she has in common with Donald Trump - lots of money but a lousy hairdresser.

[DoctorMichael]

A well-deserved bttt.

[McGavin999]

How could she betray John Heinz like that?

[nmh]

She would love to destroy America.

[Carolinamom]

I wonder if these Heintz products have anything to do w/clinton's strange remark when his WH portrait was unveiled: "I feel like a pickle."

[ladyjane]

When did she become a citizen of the US? These articles never seem to mention. They never mention when John's annulment was granted either.