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Kerry Wins . . . board approval to install rail
Boston Herald ^ | 12/23/04 | David R. Guarino

Posted on 01/01/2005 5:25:15 AM PST by beyond the sea

If Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] had his way, he'd be lobbying foreign leaders, leaning on Congress and mapping a new Supreme Court from the White House wings.

Instead, his government interaction last week was limited mostly to the arcane world of City Hall and the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission.

Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, won initial approval Dec. 16 - only after a lengthy debate and contingent on a rash of future paperwork - to build twin railings on the front steps of their Louisburg Square mansion. To bolster their case, the Kerrys laid out everything from the type of metal used for the railing, its color, where exactly it'll be attached and just how many screws will be used.

City Hall was abuzz with the Kerrys' somewhat stealth application for the complicated home fix-it, particularly given the senator's past run-ins with the board and city over his home. Colleen Meagher, a city preservation planner who works for the commission, said the commission reviews ``any exterior architectural alteration that is visible from a public way.''

The Kerrys, who came under fire for having a fire hydrant removed after they moved to Beacon Hill, have won past approvals for a new decorative iron balcony, a new front porch light and hidden door phone and a stoop replacement, records show. Among the board's denials are a 1995 bid by the Kerrys to extend a balcony across the house. In 1997, they were cited for a ``visible'' satellite dish on the roof, records show.

The Kerrys applied for the new railings after their housekeeper sprained her ankle, sources said.

A Kerry spokeswoman said of the flap:``Winter's here and this was a common-sense precaution for the icy months. The requisite steps were taken to ensure the handrail meets the city's guidelines.''


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KEYWORDS: architecture; falldown; government; kerry; landuse; propertyrights; raisins; rasinvodka; safety; stollirasin; teresa
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To: newsgatherer
I ahve linked to it on todays Christian-news-in-maine.com with this note in the link box "More, with comments, warning, some of these comments may get quite earthy.

LOL! So far, so tame here.

;-)

41 posted on 01/01/2005 8:23:42 AM PST by beyond the sea (Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: Brian Allen
"Only the Devil, the kennedy "family" and the rest of the Mob have any idea whatsoever how he was ever and/or is ever elected to public office."

The anti war scam went a long way here and it lifted this ahole all the way to the Senate.

42 posted on 01/01/2005 8:28:02 AM PST by Radix (This Tag Line strives to not be redundant, nor to repeat itself!)
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To: beyond the sea

Dan Mathews irony: "He left his blood on the highway, not at the blood bank."


43 posted on 01/01/2005 8:28:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: stylin19a
Can you imagine having a conversation with JFK about minutiae ? I'm thinking the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission caved to stop being bored to tears and to just shut him up.

ROFL ...... maybe white raisin ladened Teraayza accompanied John-Jaquestrap Effin Shove It S.O.B Teresa Mamma T Winthrop Simoes-Ferreira Al Qerry-Heinz III to the discussions berating the dear folks on the Architectural Commission --"you people probably haven't had a real job since you've been adults", and they then caved.

;-)

44 posted on 01/01/2005 8:29:40 AM PST by beyond the sea (Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

aha!....LOL!


45 posted on 01/01/2005 8:30:46 AM PST by beyond the sea (Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: beyond the sea

Actually it was Ter-ray-zuh who wanted the hydrant moved. She used to park her white SUV right next to the hydrant and accumulated lots of tickets. BTW her license was something like HNZ57. Maybe some other freeper can remember exactly what the license number was.


46 posted on 01/01/2005 8:32:58 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: beyond the sea

Chalk up another huge victory for American liberalism!


47 posted on 01/01/2005 8:57:16 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: beyond the sea

What a horrible place to live. I'm so grateful to live in flyover country.


48 posted on 01/01/2005 9:03:57 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: samtheman
This ranks up there with Howard Dean's bike path.

No, it doesn't.

The USSC ruled that the Dean-sponsored bill taking land for the bike path un-Constitutional.

49 posted on 01/01/2005 9:11:05 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: beyond the sea

"to build twin railings on the front steps"

Hmmmm? Is this so the gin-soaked raisen "shove it" person can make it up and down the steps ..??


50 posted on 01/01/2005 10:03:49 AM PST by CyberAnt (Where are the dem supporters? - try the trash cans in back of the abortion clinics.)
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To: CyberAnt
Is this so the gin-soaked raisen "shove it" person can make it up and down the steps ..??

Yes, they should have also installed a thick foam rubber pad for her occasional tumbles. Truth is she's back here in Fox Chapel, north of Pittsburgh most of the time.

Happy New Year!

51 posted on 01/01/2005 10:43:47 AM PST by beyond the sea (Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: beyond the sea

I'm forced to wonder what the bone of contention was; did the steps originally have only a single rail or did they have no rail at all?


52 posted on 01/01/2005 10:54:55 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: beyond the sea; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
53 posted on 01/01/2005 11:24:29 AM PST by farmfriend ( Congratulation. You are everything we've come to expect from years of government training.)
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To: Old Professer
no rail at all..... the townies were wondering if the railings would be an eye sore -- oh ny!!!

Better the railings than seeing Kerry ("I don't fall down") or Teraaaaayza on her bum every other month!

54 posted on 01/01/2005 11:25:31 AM PST by beyond the sea (Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!!!


55 posted on 01/01/2005 11:30:15 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: beyond the sea

My son makes his living buidling mostly handrails for new houses; no rail, no occupancy permit.


56 posted on 01/01/2005 11:35:16 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: beyond the sea

"Buidling?" Well, you can see I don't make my living typing.


57 posted on 01/01/2005 11:36:24 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: beyond the sea

If I had their money I'd buy me an Island somewhere and do as I darned well pleased.

I'll bet when a commode stops up on Beacon Hill, you need permission from the city before you can legally plung on it.


58 posted on 01/01/2005 12:52:44 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Look out 2005, here comes the Freepers!!!!!!!!!)
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To: beyond the sea

I'm so disappointed in this thread. I saw Kerry and Rail, and thought he's being run out of town on a rail.

Well, better luck next time.


59 posted on 01/01/2005 12:58:52 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: Auntie Dem
I'm so disappointed in this thread. I saw Kerry and Rail, and thought he's being run out of town on a rail.

LOL! Thanks for one of the first chuckles of 2005. I really like FR for the humor too.

60 posted on 01/01/2005 1:01:57 PM PST by beyond the sea (Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and the north end of a south bound mule.)
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