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.
...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.
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 would think that Abraham Lincoln would qualify for that that title.
I only read to this misinformation. The left likes to change died to killed in action and then inflate that number. As of 7/18/2004 (15 months of combat action), 894 US soldiers have died. Of that number, 660 have been "killed in action". That makes Iraq one of the safest, lowest casualty wars in history. Jeep traffic accidents in Kuwait, while tragic,aren't "Killed in Action" and could have easily happened anywhere in the world. Jeep traffic accidents in Kuwait are counted in the overall death count quoted so enthusiastically by the left.
-""a visual journal" of abstract expression, punctuated with sometimes harsh realism."-
In other words...the art sluts don't know what it means.
It is a statement on modern society that all one has to do to be considered brilliant is to be a raving psycho.
"Oh I've said her name twice, that's going to seem weird"
yeah considering how NORMAL Rosie is and how stagnant her CAREER is I must admit to being taken aback by the fact that she dropped Madonna's name twice, ooooh how weird that is!
Oh, say it ain't so!!! Stepchildren?? Does she mean to say that the late Republican hopeful John Heinz' sons are now stumping for John Flip Flop Kerry. Ughhhhh....
Rosie could receive a great amount of representation by the following method. Add a little helium to her mega-self and fly her as the Super Bowl Blimp(Good-Year).Bush/Cheney 2004!!
Well Rosie, under Baathist Iraq, homosexuals were not treated very well. Why is that even mild criticism by Republicans is the end of the world but imprisonment and official violence by third-world dictators get a pass?
The demented leftist pervert contingent thinks it is winning after what happened in the Senate this week.
We have just begun to fight.