Posted on 07/12/2004 5:25:51 AM PDT by FlyLow
Married Senator John 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-60s 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 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 are unfit to represent this great nation. The uninformed will never hear the truth from the press, who wants Kerry elected! Those who buy the Kerry facade ....
beware what you vote for. You may regret that you got it!
For a look at The Tides Foundation, visit
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/225
You know, I don't know why she dislikes that name.
If I had a wife like Terry Kerry, I'd consider commitin' Hari Kari!
Kerry--the Trophy Husband.
I prefer Heinz-Married; doesn't matter who she marries after Heinz, she's not giving up that influential name for anybody.
Can't let these enemies in the White House.
Decidedly to the right of Kerry. But then again so are all the other Senators.
Regards, Ivan
A trophy husband?
Ha! I'd like to see him stuffed and mounted! *L*
Mary Teri Kerry, now that's scary! So let's not tarry, of her be wary. Things could get hairy with that liberal canary testing all of our man berries to see if we're fairies come this November.
Can anyone tell me what John Kerry's ethnic roots are? All the Irish people I know think he is Irish.I say he has no Irish blood at all.I know he is part Jewish but the rest is rather vague to me.
As if we needed anymore info on who the "Foreing leader's" were that wanted Kerry elected.
Another fruit loop with money in the dimocrat corral.
Scary Terry Kerry knew well how to Marry
English. Forbes (his middle name) is not Irish. I don't think he has a drop of Irish in him.
Now that is ONE fugly trophy!
The more America is exposed to this woman, the more recoil from the Kerry Campaign will be realized.
Watch and see if a "Tay Raise Ahhhhh" moment doesn't seriously undermine the Kerry/Edwards ticket before all is said and done.
Like all pampered elites, Tay Raise Ahhhhh doesn't consider what she is thinking before she spews it for public consumption. When you spend several decades surrounded by "the help" which for obvious reasons says "yes" to everything you verbalize, no matter how insane....you begin to think thats the "reality".
It isn't. Ask Leona Helmsley. Ask Martha Stewart. Ask Marc Rich, Ken Lay, or a host of others.
And the great thing is, Tay Raise Ahhhhh will implode without any prodding by the GOP or Bush Campaign, just like Howard Dean.
Its coming......
Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry = Gravy Train
You can browse the American Conservative Union's archives here. Scroll down to the link which says "click here for archived ratings prior to 1999."
I think it would be fair to call the late Senator Heinz a RINO, although far from the most objectionable one. His ACU ratings, from what I saw (I didn't look at every year of his tenure, as the data retrieval system is rather tedious), tended to be around 50. With the obvious caveat that a rating of, say, 55 in 1980 doesn't necessarily translate to a rating of 55 in 2003, some comparative information can be gathered.
One thing that jumped out at me was that there were a bunch of RINOs back then. And not just squishy moderates, either. There were quite a few nominal Republicans who regularly scored ratings in the 20s and 30s -- Weiker (CT), Hatfield (OR), Chafee (RI), Stafford (VT), to name a few; and even a few who were outright liberals by any reasonable definition, sometimes scoring in the single digits on ACU's scale -- Javits (NY) and Mathais (MD), notably.
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