Teresa: I'll Use Ketchup Cash if Race Turns Ugly

NewsMax ^ | 3/14/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Teresa Heinz Kerry is warning that she'll use the vast Heinz ketchup fortune to repel personal attacks by the Bush campaign - insisting for the first time publicly that there are legal ways around the campaign finance laws that could allow her to spend far more than the $2,000 legal limit to get her husband elected.

Asked last week if she had decided to spend "any of your own fortune" on the presidential race, Heinz Kerry initially told National Public Radio's Renee Montagne, "I cannot, by law; $2,000 is it, and I've said that so many times."

But in the next breath the ketchup heiress warned, "Any time the honor of my family or myself is trashed, I will do what any American would try and do, which is to fight to redeem it."

"And there are legal ways of doing that," she insisted.

Heinz Kerry predicted that the Bush campaign would indeed go after her and her family personally, setting off the tripwire that would open up her $700 million pocketbook.

"I'm sure it will get very ugly and personal," she warned. "But I think . . . ugliness speaks for itself, and expensive ugliness speaks for itself even more."

Asked if she was expecting "any particular accusations, any particular vulnerabilities on your part?" Heinz Kerry told NPR, "No."

"[There are] no vulnerabilities on my part. My life's an open book. I'm honest, I work hard, I care about people, and I have hopes for the world and for us, and I think we're not being well-served and well-led."

[MaryFromMichigan]

See my post 13.

I think we should start a concerted, grassroots effort to boycott Heinz.

[JayNorth]

You gotta love the left wing media. They keep talking about how the "Republican negative campaign" will be starting their vicious attacks any time now and "it's going to get ugly" all the while apparently completely oblivious to Kerry's daily lies, personal attacks, and completely negative campaign. What does Kerry ever say he would do better or differently? No, it's just "Bush is bad, Cheney is bad, all Republicans are bad."

As to the $2,000 limit, that's just for the "little people". The Democrats, as they always do, (why am I surprised?) claim to be the cheerleaders for "campaign finance reform" and then immediately find every sleazy way to circumvent or ignore the laws they supposedly championed. The CEO and Chairman of the board of Costco gave $95,000 EACH to the RATs. Okay, it wasn't the RATS, it was the "Joint Victory Campaign 2004" so they found some sleazy, underhanded way around the law. MoveOn.org is filing to be allowed to ignore the "60 day" rule. I guess that law only applies to conservatives.

[TexasRedeye]

I wonder what he served her, the "broad" that is?

[Ragirl]

LOL. Gee, wonder how Heinz stockholders feel about the politicization of their products...?

Let's help the stockholders decide how who they feel.....BOYCOT HEINZ! My family will no longer knowingly purchase anything made or owned by Heinz. Hit 'em where it hurts!

[dougiefresh]

The government should try to break up the monopoly Heinz has on the market like they tried to do to Microsoft.

[ServesURight]

I say let her waste her money. There's no way that Effin Kerry is going to win.

[MaryFromMichigan]

"BOYCOT HEINZ!"

Can I hear an "AMEN!" ?

J

[Just mythoughts]

You gotta love the left wing media.


Love? (I know what you mean)


They keep talking about how the "Republican negative campaign" will be starting their vicious attacks any time now and "it's going to get ugly" all the while apparently completely oblivious to Kerry's daily lies, personal attacks, and completely negative campaign.

This is the part where the real "LIARS & CROOKS" are exposed. The "MEDIA WHORES" have not once called upon these that SPEW their lying attacks and slanderous poison about President Bush, all these months.


"What does Kerry ever say he would do better or differently? No, it's just "Bush is bad, Cheney is bad, all Republicans are bad.""


Obviously he doesn't believe he needs to put forth what he will do, just putting himself in that coveted position of power is answer enough.

[JayNorth]

I think we should start a concerted, grassroots effort to boycott Heinz.

I agree. It gets their attention real quick. I have already started my boycott of key companies where they have very publicly played politics. If Joe Shmoe who is a CEO or whatever wants to donate $2,000 to the party of his choice, that's fine with me. I'll do the same with my $2,000. But when they publicly associate the whole company with the cause, or use company resources to find some sleazy way around the $2,000 limit, that's where I draw the line. I'm tired of public companies being used as a pulpit without any accountability to the shareholders, at least 50% of whom don't agree. Same thing applies to unions. Why should they be allowed to spend 100% of their money on the RATs against the wishes of 50% of their members who are not RATs? In many jobs you HAVE to join the union to work, so you are basically forced into donating to the RATs.

[Agnes Heep]

"Any time the honor of my family or myself is trashed, I will do what any American would try and do, which is to fight to redeem it."

Please don't tell me she's going to murder her husband?

[finnman69]

Other than it's illegal, what's stopping you Terey-sah.

[Las Vegas Dave]

"BOYCOT HEINZ!"


DITTOS to that, how do we start the campaign to dump #57 from everyone's pantry? Chain email blitz?

[Congressman Billybob]

NPR ought to be treated like a subsidiary of the Democrat Party. But it is not, alas. CFR has no impact on NPR.

As for your question about the increase in funding of the National Endowment for the Arts, I have some information. That was engineered in the House Appropriations Committee to purchase (excuse me, encourage) the budget votes of a couple of Members. And the person who engineered that was none other than the gentleman I am running against, Charles Taylor, LOL.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Please do it now.

[airborne]

I gotta get going, but make sure everyone looks at the link mewzilla provided. (Thanks mew. I don't have the 'puter skills to link.) Check out all the brands listed under the Heinz label.
No more Jack Daniels grilling sauce for me.

[R W Reactionairy]

"Teresa Heinz Kerry is warning that she'll use the vast Heinz ketchup fortune to repel personal attacks by the Bush campaign - insisting for the first time publicly that there are legal ways around the campaign finance laws that could allow her to spend far more than the $2,000 legal limit to get her husband elected."

This may already have occurred. John Kerry injected $6 million into his floundering primary campaign which came from a mortgage on the house the I understand that he and Teresa own in MA. The appraisal on this house increased from $6 million to $12 million in support of the new mortgage.

If the house was owned jointly and the value really was less than $12 to $13 million, then Teresa has already kicked in a loan where there was no reasonable expectation of repayment. Ergo a contribution well beyond the $2,000 limit.

My apologies if this has already been debunked, but I have never seen a thread that got to the bottom of this.

[Enterprise]

Maybe he was putting Heinz Ketchup on her "fries."

[P-Marlowe]

I think we can all make sure these products and labels never end up in our shopping baskets again:

[Centaur]

Guess we can add her to the growing list of albatross around the Senator's neck. The Ancient Mariner must be starting to feel overloaded. :)

[MaryFromMichigan]

DITTOS to that, how do we start the campaign to dump #57 from everyone's pantry? Chain email blitz?

Great place to start! Perhaps someone should start a new post with "BOYCOT HEINZ!" as a topic.