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Democrats seek to curb attack ads... Dukakis heads watchdog panel... The state Democratic Party has created a four-member panel, headed by former governor Michael S. Dukakis, that will review campaign advertisements and publicly rebuke candidates who use negative attacks. Party chairman Philip W. Johnston created the panel and will serve on it, along with Dukakis and Cameron F. Kerry, brother of US Senator John F. Kerry; and Katherine M. Clark of Melrose, a former state Senate candidate who is chairing a statewide campaign effort for the Democratic Party. Johnston, elected party chairman in 2000, said he believes that a major...

Teresa Heinz Kerry has lashed out against the "scoundrels” and "sunshine patriots” who have criticized Rep. John Murtha for calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops in Iraq. "The orchestrated assault on Murtha should alarm us all,” the Heinz family heiress – wife of Sen. John Kerry – writes in an opinion piece carried by the Johnstown (Pa.) Tribune-Democrat. "Just when you thought the debate could sink no lower, the politicians committed to staying the course in Iraq turned the fire hoses of smear and intimidation on this icon of national security. "They said he had given aid and...

PHILADELPHIA - A lawsuit filed by Teresa Heinz Kerry after her first husband, U.S. Sen. John Heinz, died in a midair collision in 1991 was settled for $15 million, according to newly unsealed court records. Last year, attorneys for The Philadelphia Inquirer sought to unseal the settlement papers when U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., ran for president; Kerry married Heinz's widow in 1995. At first, attorneys for the Heinz estate tried to prevent the Montgomery County Court records from being unsealed, citing the family's need for security and privacy. In October 2004, Montgomery County Judge Paul Tressler unsealed portions of...

BOSTON --Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is heading for Nantucket with plans for an Aug. 12 fundraiser. Former President Bill Clinton and his wife will spend a week on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket vacationing and attending the fundraiser. Proceeds will go to Hillary Clinton's re-election campaign. The fundraiser will be held at the Nantucket home of Elizabeth Frawley Bagley and Smith W. Bagley. The Bagleys are Democratic activists who have previously hosted the Clintons. Tickets to the event will cost $1,000, The Boston Sunday Globe reported.

It looks like Teresa Heinz Kerry is rubbing off on her husband. And on Sen. Hillary Clinton. For the Republican Party, this is a very good thing. You'll recall that last month, Mrs. Heinz Kerry put on her shiniest tinfoil hat and blamed the Democrats' loss in November on rigged voting machines. As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mrs. Heinz Kerry openly questioned the election results and fixated on areas of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes. "Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Mrs. Heinz Kerry intoned, and it...

TERESA'S BACK: ELECTION WAS HACKED! Tue Mar 08 2005 09:32:36 ET Teresa Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November's election, the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER reports, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes. "Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines." Heinz Kerry did not offer any specific evidence that votes on the machines were altered. "We in the United States are not a banana republic,"...

Move over Teresa Heinz-Kerry, here comes Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Lansdowne Technologies Inc. (LTI), the Paul Martin corporation that somehow disappeared from Martin's public disclosure statements circa 1995, is in a business similar to the Heinz-Kerry charitable organization that links leftwing activists and UN radicals to specially designed Internet communications and virtual private networks. Between the woman who coveted being America's First Lady and the Prime Minister of the country next door, top advocates of One World Government are being expedited in droves onto the Information Highway. Through the Tides Foundation, back in the early 1990s Heinz-Kerry (Mrs. John...

We received this in our e-mail pile without any indication of who wrote it. It was so good, we decided to post it anyway. To Michael Moore: Sit down and shut up. Your fifteen minutes are up. And do something about your hair. Looks can be deceiving, but not in your case... To Jimmy Carter: Big mistake to sit down next to Michael Moore at the convention. Spend more time with drywall and the glue gun. Or start lusting in your heart again. To Tom Daschle: If you lean too far to the left, voters will tend to lean right...

President George W. Bush on Sen. John Kerry 's constantly changing positions on the war in Iraq: "He has sat on the fence for so long that the iron has entered his soul." Senator Kerry on Bush: "I would trust my honorable opponent with anything, except, that is, public office." Bush on Kerry 's campaigning: "He went around the country stirring up apathy." Kerry on Bush 's plain-spoken speeches: "He has never been known to use a word that might send a listener to the dictionary." The media, after listening to Bush 's stump speech over and over: "It is...

ODE TO THE LEFT BE-HEINZ When polls were closed, We all supposed It couldn't be much closer! Now Libs are torn, downcast...Forlorn, And poor Soros moroser! The votes were cast, And now at last The counting would begin. Monsieur LaMoore Was very sure His flick would do George in. But now instead, The states are Red, And Hollywood is Blue. Ben Affleck's mad, Sarandon's sad, And Whoopi's come unglued! Begala whines, The Left Be-Heinz, "The Boss" just wonders..."HOW?" James Carville pouts, O'Donnell shouts... No time to ketchup now! The Kerry crowd Was brash and loud; The cool and hip were...

If anyone has some major rehabilitation work to do in the new year, it is Teresa Heinz Kerry. As the Kerrys head for their swank vacation home this year without the press corps tallying how much it cost, or the Secret Service following too closely on the slopes, the might-have-been first lady and still extremely major philanthropist has some major thinking to do about the damage she did to her own reputation in the major run that just ended. It started out just fine. In her first interviews, Mrs. Heinz Kerry put to bed the rumors that she really regarded...

She was running behind schedule that day, and the mostly female crowd waiting for her was restive. There is only so much multitasking that can be accomplished on a folding chair when the speaker has already run 90 minutes late, and many women were murmuring about the children they had to pick up and jobs they had to get back to. Even one of the warm-up speakers joked that they should all get a free bottle of ketchup in recompense, and some in the audience eventually gave up, explaining themselves as they headed out the door. But anyone who was...

Calling the 2004 presidential election the beginning of a fresh start for America, Teresa Heinz Kerry asked supporters at a Monday Rally at Scranton High School to "vote often" today. "Do you know how to vote often?" the wife of Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry asked a crowd of just over 1,000 in the school's auditorium. "You vote once, and then you take one, two, three, four, five people to vote with you. That's voting often, so vote often." Citing the loss of thousands of jobs, rising health care costs, a soaring federal budget deficit and the high number of...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, has had a remarkable life even if it does not end up in the White House. Her name alone -- Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry -- suggests the unusual path followed by the woman born to Portuguese parents in the then-Portuguese colony of Mozambique in 1938. After studying in South Africa and Switzerland, the young Teresa Simoes-Ferreira moved to the United States to put her fluency in five languages to work at the United Nations. She married John Heinz, scion of the Pittsburgh-based Heinz food condiment company, in 1966....

A Montgomery County judge unsealed yesterday portions of a civil lawsuit brought by Teresa Heinz Kerry over the 1991 death of her first husband, U.S. Sen. John Heinz. Judge Paul W. Tressler's ruling was a split decision for the parties - Heinz Kerry and The Inquirer. While he unsealed all pleadings, motions, petitions and orders, Tressler said that discovery materials in the lawsuit file could be kept secret. Tressler ordered the file be open for public inspection on Monday. But yesterday afternoon, the state Supreme Court granted Heinz Kerry's attorneys a stay that would keep the file closed until the...

The year: 2002. The game: Steelers versus Patriots. AFC Championship Game. [This creates tensions in the Kerry household, because John Kerry avows himself a Pats fan (Football Fans for Truth has not been able to confirm this) and Teresa Heinz Kerry, a popular Pittsburgh figure because of her work with Heinz Family Foundation, swears that no matter what, "root for the Steelers" (Cite: Boston Herald, 1/23/2002).] Late second quarter. Patriots receiver David Patten catches a touchdown pass from then Patriots QB Drew Bledsoe. The crowd goes wild. Are the Kerrys sitting in the stands, one glumstruck, one cheering wildly? No....

She says that like it's a bad thing. In a Boston Herald article ("Kerry steeling himself for visit to Heinz territory", 1/23/2002), Teresa Heinz Kerry revealed her true feelings about the Packers loyalists. She mentioned that, at the 1996 Super Bowl, Green Bay Packer fans were "partying harder than anyone she had ever seen". "I've never seen fans drink so much," she said.

... The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told more than 300 supporters at a union-sponsored rally in Harrisburg today --quote-- "I choose to think of security in a more broad and humane way," such as making sure a child is well-fed and ready for school.

... The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told more than 300 supporters at a union-sponsored rally in Harrisburg today --quote-- "I choose to think of security in a more broad and humane way," such as making sure a child is well-fed and ready for school.

A story of insanity and suicide lies at the heart of the mountain retreat of the would-be President THE next time that John Kerry visits his $4.9 million winter retreat in the Rocky Mountains, he would do well to dust off an old certificate boasting about the building’s illustrious history. A framed scroll of parchment written in stilted medieval English reveals that the exclusive hideaway he shares with his wife in Ketchum, Idaho, is a dream American vacation home with a difference: it spent most of its 500 years on a farm in East Anglia. Locals in the village of...

After enlisting in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Heinz served on active duty from June to December 1963 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. For the remainder of his enlistment, he served with the 911th Troop Carrier Group based at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport. As an Airman Third Class, he received a U.S. Department of Defense citation for suggestions to improve the management of parts and supplies, saving the Air Force $400,000 annually. With the rank of staff sergeant, he received an honorable discharge from the Air Force Reserves in 1969.

Dear Ms. Heinz-Kerry: At first, I thought you were nothing more than an interesting side note to the Kerry campaign. A bit of comic relief, if you will. Heaven knows, the country could use it after watching the painful machinations of your husband as he desperately tries to explain his ever-shifting positions on every policy issue imaginable. It is time, however, for you to put down the gin-soaked raisins and smell the coffee. Let me say this as clearly as I know how: Motherhood IS a full time job. Despite you and your fellow feminists' best efforts to belittle stay-at-home...

In the spirit of the Kerry campaign official who declared Vice President Cheney's lesbian daughter "fair game," let us now turn to the question of whether John Kerry's wife is fit to be First Lady. The issue is "fair game" because of how Teresa Heinz Kerry is behaving. Already wildly unpopular - her approval rating is an anemic 30% - she did the political equivalent of mooning her neighbors last week by insulting First Lady Laura Bush. Said Heinz Kerry in an interview: "I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry said Friday that while President Bush doesn't understand the struggles of American women to make ends meet and fill their demanding roles, he does, and he'll ease their burdens as president. Kerry made the sweeping appeal to women before an audience of about 1,000 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, seeking to improve his standing among women voters who, in polling to date, have been supporting Bush in numbers that bode well for the Republicans and worry Democrats. Kerry said women still are paid 76 cents for every dollar men are paid, and promised that,...

HOUSTON -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would appoint Supreme Court justices who would safeguard a half-century of civil rights gains, his wife said Friday. "Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, we are reminded now more than ever that we need a Supreme Court to protect our hard-won victories," Teresa Heinz Kerry told the Pennsylvania State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "John Kerry will appoint judges that interpret our Constitution and don't go there for political reasons to divide our country," she added during a 20-minute prepared speech. The NAACP had invited...

HOUSTON, Pa. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) would appoint Supreme Court justices who would safeguard a half-century of civil rights gains, his wife said Friday. "Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, we are reminded now more than ever that we need a Supreme Court to protect our hard-won victories," Teresa Heinz Kerry told the Pennsylvania State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites). "John Kerry will appoint judges that interpret our Constitution and don't go there for political reasons to divide our country," she added...

Prescription drugs and health insurance will be more affordable if Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry is elected president, his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, said Thursday during a visit to Yardley. We have to talk about how we want to live," Heinz Kerry said to the 300 people wedged into the Yardley Community Centre for her visit. "We've dehumanized medicine. We've devalued preventative medicine. That's not the American way." Heinz Kerry focused mainly on her husband's plan to bring affordable health care to all Americans. She complained about the high cost of prescription drugs and blamed U.S. pharmaceutical companies for "gouging...

    PARSING TERESA   by Mia T, 10.21.04   "I don't know Laura Bush.... I don't know if she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up..... [M]y validation of what I do and what I believe and my experience is a little bigger, because... I've had different experiences....." MISSUS HEINZ (KERRY) USA Today yesterday "I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a schoolteacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children..." MISSUS HEINZ (KERRY) cya issued within hours of publication     7 varieties doesn't...

Local ABC News in Houston did a real damaging story on the Teresa Heinz-Kerry comment on Laura Bush. A liberal teacher that they were interviewing was disgusted with the comment and said that John Kerry should get his wife in line. After the break at Nightline they will be showing Edward's response to the comment.

TELL LAURA I LOVE HER MIDI can be found here -- http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/6488/midi.html I know I'll live in the White House soon John will destroy that buffoon I shoot off my mouth...but I am not a loony tune I have class and a sense of taste They live there...that is such a waste Things that I want I always get Bow down to me, you idiots 'Cause Laura's a slacker...I'll be her attacker She's never had one real job...so big stink bombs at her I'll lob She's just a hick from a Texas town And so I will knock her down...

Full Disclosure: John Edwards often speaks of "two Americas" — one that "pays the taxes" and another that "gets the tax breaks." Meet Teresa Heinz Kerry and her tax accountants. John Kerry wants to raise taxes on everyone making over $200,000, rolling back Bush's "tax cuts for the rich." So why did his wife pay only 12.5% of her income in taxes last year? According to documents released by the Kerry campaign, Teresa Heinz Kerry in 2003 paid taxes at a rate barely above the rate paid by the lowest-income Americans who actually pay taxes. She reported a total income...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry http://www.nypost.com/gossip/31866.htm October 16, 2004 -- WACKY first lady-wannabe Teresa Heinz Kerry is advising arthritis sufferers to chow down on booze-soaked raisins. "You get some gin and get some white raisins [and] soak them in the gin for two weeks," the multi-millionairess said after a rambling speech on health care in Reno the other day. "Then, eat nine of the raisins a day." Dr. Steven Phillips, director of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Nevada, supported Heinz Kerry's prescription, noting the sulfur and sulfides found in grapes are increased by the...

....Heinz Kerry reported almost no ordinary wages last year. Her self-employment pay and a pension payment of $35,448 total less than $60,000, the return shows. "She's got less than $60,000 subject to the rates normal people pay," said Joseph B. Darby III, a partner in the tax practice at the Boston law firm Greenberg Traurig, who reviewed the tax return yesterday. Darby said Heinz Kerry's taxes reflected a common investment approach for wealthy people. Her assets are roughly split between low-yielding, tax-free bonds and dividend-paying stocks. Heinz Kerry gained most of her fortune in an inheritance from her former husband,...

Kerry's Wife Releases Part of Her 2003 Income Tax ReturnBy DAVID CAY JOHNSTON and ERIC LIPTONPublished: October 16, 2004 ASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - Teresa Heinz Kerry reported income of just over $5 million last year, slightly more than half of it from investments in tax-exempt municipal and state bonds, her 2003 income tax return shows, confirming her status as the wealthiest spouse of any major party nominee in United States history.Ms. Heinz Kerry on Friday released a small part of her 2003 income tax return, unlike her husband, Senator John Kerry, and President Bush and his wife, Laura, who have...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson(202) 863-8614 WASHINGTON -- RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement today on the promised release of Teresa Heinz Kerry's tax returns: "Throughout history, presidential candidates have disclosed income tax information prior to Election Day. We believe Americans value disclosure and transparency in campaigns. During the 2003 filing year, Sen. Kerry made a $6 million loan to his campaign based on the value of a home jointly owned with his wife. “Were it not for that infusion of cash John Kerry might not be on the campaign trail today. Because of her financial interest...

If her husband becomes president, she said, she will fulfill the traditional role of first lady. Asked if she would cook in the White House, she said: "I know there is a tiny little kitchen somewhere there, and I know I'll make my sauces unless I can teach the big chef to make the sauces the way I like them: they have more garlic in them than most people like." To the frequent question of whether she would be more like Laura Bush or more like Hillary Rodham Clinton, she has a stock answer. "I say neither. I am going...

Middle Class Said To Pay Higher Tax Rate Than Heinz Kerry And KerryMon Oct 11 2004 10:22:17 ET Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, writes in the WALL STREET JOURNAL on Monday: "According to the Kerrys' own tax records, and they have not released all of them, the couple had a combined income of $6.8 million in income last year and paid $725,000 in income taxes. That means their effective tax rate was a whopping 12.8%.... "Under the current tax system the middle class pays far more than the Kerry tax rate. In fact, the average federal tax...

Best and Worst of the Debate Best Kerry Line of the Debate: "From the looks of the people in this audience, the only ones in this room who will be affected by the president's tax cut for the rich will be myself, the president, and Charles Gibson." Kerry's inner snob made an appearance last night at the debate. How could he tell the annual income of the audience? I guess no one was wearing Prada. One must have a trained eye for spotting designer clothes. Maybe there were no five hundred dollar haircuts like the one Kerry sports. There might...

I know that this is long, but I have done a bit of the research for you. Front companies and 501c3's, 527's, common membership lists, names, donors, etc. There's more going on than one might at first think. As many of you don't seem to get it, I posted it separately. Pay attention and read it, then send it to someone who will listen. Some few of the links may be outdated. Everything you need to connect Kerry from the DNC to Soros to 527's is here. From ACORN to voter fraud to vandilism and violence to things you never...

EUGENE, Ore. - Teresa Heinz Kerry sharply attacked President Bush's handling of both the war on terror and the Iraq war in a speech to about 1,000 supporters on Thursday. The talk by the wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry was billed as likely to focus on domestic topics, but she led her 45-minute address by saying security is the "umbrella issue" of the presidential election. "It is unconscionable that we have been all fed distortions, untruths, obfuscations" regarding the Iraq situation, she said. "We didn't go into this properly, and we are now reaping the price," she said,...

On Special Report with Brit Hume, Syndicated Columnist, Charles Krauthammer said that Saddam Hussein had stolen/ciphoned money from the Food For Oil program to use for influencing countries to help defray the sanctions, most notably, France, and that in the process Hussein had become richer than -- than Teresa Heinz-Kerry....

"Vote early and vote often" has long been the Democrat establishment's slogan. Now, as the party cranks up its election fraud machine more zealously than ever before, Teresa Heinz Kerry has a slight update: "Vote often and vote well." That's what the aspiring first lady said during a recent appearance in Minneapolis. When readers first alerted us, we found the claims too outrageous to believe, but we tracked down her quotation in the liberal St. Paul Pioneer Press. There is one positive aspect to the appallingly cynical comment: At least she didn't say it in a Chicago cemetery.

Teresa Heinz-Kerry is scheduled to attend a rally in McAllen, Texas on Sunday. The rally is set for 1:30 p.m. at the McAllen Civic Center. This will be the only visit by a campaign principal to the heavily Democratic Valley. According to the Chair of the Hidalgo Co. DIMS, the Johns are too focused on swing states. Anyone want to show up in W gear?

"Every child in America will receive health care from day one if John is elected. Period," she said. The Kerry health care plan also will provide catastrophic coverage for all Americans, Heinz Kerry said. Under her husband's plan, the government would pay 75 percent of all medical costs above $50,000 per incident, she said. The Kerry plan also would provide tax subsidies to business owners to provide health insurance for their employees, she said. In addition, her husband plans to provide every student in America with four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of community service, and...

WASHINGTON — Russian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol would leave U.S. companies cut off from new markets worth billions of dollars, according to supporters of a treaty aimed at limiting so-called greenhouse gases. The United States signed the treaty in 1997 but has withdrawn from it. That means U.S. producers of technologies that reduce consumption of fossil fuels will be left out of new global markets created as countries signing the treaty move to reduce their outputs of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, supporters said. Members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Cabinet were signing on this week to his...

Tereeeza Heinz-Kerry is back out in the campaign...presumably in an attempt to appeal to the women voters since her husband doesn't. On Friday she gave a speech in Colorado. The big story was about her confrontation with a heckler, but something else she said was much more chilling. The Poodle's Keeper pretty much tows the company line when she's on the stump. Presumably, she is told what to say, or at least given the basic talking points. She launched into the bit about how the United States needs a different approach to the war on terror. "The way we live...

The First Lady of the United States has always stood as a role model and an icon in American culture. She is a representative of the United States of America around the world. The First Lady is in the public eye and under public scrutiny from the beginning of her husband's campaign. She remains a public figure until her death. Feminists abhor the image of the First Lady as a June Cleaver type woman. They say that the current impression of the First Lady is a "plastic" woman who trots after her husband. Despite this, most people prefer that the...

MIDI - GOT TO GET A MESSAGE TO YOU A loony woman's running around And she's been saying things that are very profound Our first lady she's wanting to be I'm afraid that's something I do not want to see She has got a special message for you Just shove it...just shove it You are scumbags and idiots, too Just shove it...just shove it Would she be as bad as Hillary I can't wait to hear her shout out you're an FJB! Condescension that she has is rare With her traitorous husband they make quite a pair She has...

BOSTON - Democrat John Kerry reminded his hometown supporters at a $3 million fund-raiser Saturday night that he's come from behind to win elections before. "Let me tell you something, these folks have got me in fighting mood," Kerry said of rival President Bush's campaign. "When I get in a fighting mood towards the end of September and towards the beginning of October, I think you know what happens here in Massachusetts." The crowd of donors, which included Democrats from the state's congressional delegation and other statewide elected officials, rose to its feet cheering, with several people pumping their fists...

Grab a seat! Yer gonna need it… ‘Mornin’ folks! How the hell are ya this mornin’, anyways? Coffee’s on, and is it good this mornin’! Ya best grab a cup and get some! Feller’s gotta have his eyes open some ‘fore he heads out the door inna mornin’. Paper’ll be along directly, too. I gots first dibs onna funny pages! Well, it looks like CBS News done deconstructed. Their ratin’s in some of them big city markets was lower than the re-runs onna other channels! Lots lower! That’s pretty bad, folks. Well, in case ya didn’t know, them documents that...