Posted on 07/18/2004 9:32:10 AM PDT by Elle Bee
BY SCOTT FUSARO
Citizen Staff Writer
KEY WEST — John Kerry's eldest sister arrived in the Southernmost City on Saturday with a message for the Key West crowd.
"My brother is a great environmentalist and cares greatly about women's issues," Peggy Kerry said in the leafy courtyard of the Gardens Hotel after she addressed an assembly organized by the Key West Women for Kerry/Edwards.
Following the fund-raiser, which organizer Gail Lima estimates raised about $15,000 for the all-but-assured Democratic Party nominee for president, Kerry's sister addressed remarks to supporters at the local campaign headquarters.
Lightheartedly calling herself the "sister behind the man," Kerry said she had introduced her brother to politics at a young age.
"When I was in fifth grade, I took John around the neighborhood in Washington D.C., selling Stevenson buttons," she said of Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 who lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Peggy Kerry has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and is the liaison for nongovernmental organizations for the United States in the United Nations.
Kerry said she has a long history of liberal activism.
She also said her brother's campaign has become a family affair, enlisting the active support of other siblings, his children and stepchildren.
While John Kerry and his vice presidential running mate John Edwards focus their campaigning on larger population centers, Lima said she invited Peggy Kerry to speak through friends at the United Nations.
"Peggy will inspire and together we will inspire the women in this town," said Lima, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention where John Kerry will receive the party's formal nomination for president later this month.
Saturday's event rallying women to the Kerry/Edwards campaign coincided with the 156th anniversary of the inaugural women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848, and Peggy Kerry said she believes women remain underrepresented in American politics today.
"It's about a women's grassroots effort to reach out to other women and empower them and get involved in the campaign," she said.
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Rosie claimed after 9/11 that she supported Bush.
Now she doesn't.
Looks like she knows how to read public opinion....
Did she manage to graduate from high school?
Wouldn't their nannies let them give away the buttons?
Please refresh my memory - I thought there was a weight limit on Duval.
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It's a tough town to live in and not gag
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There are weight limits on most streets. It all depends on how you spread the load. I'd say hers is pretty well spread.
...over 900 of America's poor have been killed in action.
What an arrogant b!tch. So only poor people enlist in the military? Go buy a clue, Rosie, you obviously don't have one.
and this is in a town where the largest employer is the Naval Air Station Key West
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Rosie left Key West on the cruise en route to Nassau, Bahamas where the disembarking passencers were met by Bahamian business owners holding protest signs saying "If you're openly gay, stay away"
What a difference a couple of hundred miles makes.
Hopefully you don't buy the Key West Citizen, it's a terrible waste of 50 cents daily or a buck on Sundays.
Rosie O'Fatsow is nothing more than a pimple on the ass of posterity. She's a bitter has-been who will soon be forgotten.
So do the paintings of kindergartner's.
I place a higher value on those.
You in the HE business?
She was lactating? ewww!!!!
Rosie, the reason why you never see your spouse is--
A.) She probably can't stand to listen to your fat a** blather on about crap.
B.) She's having an affair.
I vote for all of the above.
I’m just up the road in Key Largo. Even if Gay Marriage never happens, it’s a virtual institution in Key West. It’s been a magnet for people on the edge of society forever.
in the same direction and reason that she hasn't seen her shoes in years
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