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A Web site partially funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry offers a report glorifying Hezbollah (Hizbullah) suicide bombers as "deified in paradise and venerated on earth for fighting Israel" - and praises the terrorist group's support network for women widowed by their husband's "martyrdom" attacks. "Women's eNews is supported by our readers; reprints and licensing fees; and the Fund for the City of New York, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III fund of the Heinz Family Foundations, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, The Helena Rubinstein Foundation, the Sister...

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...

What made Teresa Heinz Kerry so refreshing to some voters, and threatening to others on the 2004 campaign trail, is summed up when THK talks about her speech to last year's Democratic convention: "Nobody told me what to do," she told a Saturday fund-raiser here. The implicit afterword: Nobody better try. In her speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Teresa Heinz Kerry said "no one will defend this nation more vigorously" than her husband, John Kerry. The sails of the philanthropist wife of Sen. John Kerry were not trimmed by November's narrow electoral defeat. The softly accented voice gives pointed...

A campaign convenience is no more. Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband... Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references.

I guess it's not important that a future first lady may be mentally unbalanced. It's been a long, strange trip indeed for Teresa Heinz Kerry. Less than 30 years ago, she was a rabid Republican, the wife of another senator, trashing Ted Kennedy as a "perfect bastard" and the Democratic Party as "putrid." Last night, she shared the dais with Teddy Boy – who turns out to be her new husband's biggest (in terms of girth as well as enthusiasm) cheerleader. When I first reported that Teresa Heinz Kerry was behind the funding of radical causes including Act-Up, Islamist jihadists,...

Files reveal Heinz Kerry wealth PITTSBURGH — Sen. John Heinz III had about $423 million in cash, stocks, trusts and other property when he died in a 1991 plane crash, according to documents released Friday. The estate of the Pennsylvania Republican — whose widow, Teresa, later married Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat — paid about $41 million in federal estate taxes and $17 million in state death taxes, the records show. Judge Frank Lucchino had ruled in March that the law favored opening the records, which were sealed the day after Heinz, 52, an heir to the Heinz ketchup...

What's become of Teresa Heinz Kerry? Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards Dinner on March 1, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," chairwoman of Heinz Family Philanthropies and, up until Election Day, the highly visible better half of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. "Teresa Heinz will speak to her commitment to women's economic security, including Social Security and retirement," writes the council, not bothering to mention her married name in several references. "I just checked, and she no longer uses her [entire] last name; only during the [presidential] campaign did she...

A campaign convenience is no more. According to The Washington Times, Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, last year's Democrat presidential nominee. Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references. "I just checked and she no longer uses her (entire)...

...'A highlight of the symposium took place at the Faculty Club on Thursday night, when Teresa Heinz Kerry delivered what she called her "first real speech" since her husband, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., lost the presidential election. Harvard scientist John Holdren introduced Heinz Kerry, chair of the Heinz Family Foundations, and extolled her philanthropic support of environmental issues. He also acknowledged her as "one of the few people who can rival Steve as a talker."

Teresa Heinz Blames the Media Making what she called her "first real speech" since her husband lost the presidential election, Teresa Heinz blamed the media for distorting their position on the environment. Addressing Stanford University's "Whole Earth Symposium" last week, the first lady wannabe said that the press was largely responsible for the perception that her husband ignored the environment during the 2004 campaign, according to the campus newspaper, the Stanford Report. She insisted that John Kerry discussed energy issues every day and claimed that she frequently talked about "sustainability." But their comments were not reported. What did get covered...

What made Teresa Heinz Kerry so refreshing to some voters, and threatening to others on the 2004 campaign trail, is summed up when THK talks about her speech to last year's Democratic convention: "Nobody told me what to do," she told a Saturday fund-raiser here. The implicit afterword: Nobody better try.The sails of the philanthropist wife of Sen. John Kerry were not trimmed by November's narrow electoral defeat. The softly accented voice gives pointed advice to the Democratic Party, which she lately joined, formerly having spent 15 years as wife of a Senate Republican. Heinz Kerry flew into town on...

Teresa Heinz: Bush Win Suspicious Embittered first-lady wannabe Teresa Heinz is questioning whether President Bush's re-election victory last November was legitimate, saying that many of the country's voting machines could have been "hacked." "Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz told a lunch for Seattle Rep. Adam Smith on Saturday, referring to the brothers as "hard right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines," in quotes picked up by the Seattle Post Intelligencer. "We in the United States are not a banana republic," added the Mozambican-born...

Teresa Heinz Kerry is BACK and NUTTIER than ever as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD titled, “Teresa Heinz Kerry ‘openly skeptical about results from November election.’” TeRAYzuh now joins the DUmmies in their tinfoil hat theories about how the November election was fixed. TeRAYzuh’s nutty rantings along with the DUmmie ravings are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, enjoying the comedic entertainment value of Mrs. Heinz, is in the [brackets]: Teresa Heinz Kerry "openly skeptical about results from November election" Toward the middle of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer linked ARTICLE below: COUNTING THE VOTES:...

Mid-Morning Report I see that Teresa Heinz Scary is back in the news again. Apparently she's yet to resign herself to the fact that she's not in the White House. Here's her latest via Drudge wherein she claims that voting machines were hacked to alter the results for Bush: "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." Who are these "brothers"? Smothers? Allman? Doobie? I had no idea that two brothers held the...

WASHINGTON -- Teresa Heinz Kerry got a bad rap during the presidential campaign, her husband said Monday. Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who lost his bid for the White House last November, told New York City radio host Don Imus that incidents on the campaign trail were blown up out of proportion. "I was really upset about that on a personal level," said the Massachusetts senator during the interview with Imus, which aired on WFAN-AM radio and was also broadcast on MSNBC. Reports had circulated during the campaign that Heinz Kerry -- who is known for speaking her mind -- could...

Teresa Heinz Kerry got a bad rap during the presidential campaign, her husband said Monday. Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who lost his bid for the White House last November, told New York City radio host Don Imus that incidents on the campaign trail were blown out of proportion. "I was really upset about that on a personal level," the Massachusetts senator said during the interview, aired on WFAN-AM radio and also broadcast on MSNBC. Reports had circulated during the campaign that Heinz Kerry — who is known for speaking her mind — could be a bit disruptive. "We all know...

Sen. John Kerry may be making noise about running for president again in 2008, but the Track is given to understand that the little woman, Teresa Heinz Kerry, has made it clear to her hubby that she won't sit still for another campaign. Ever. ``It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing,'' said a FOT. ``She's 66 now, though God bless her, you'd never know it, and you know as you get older, your priorities change. Teresa will never do it again.'' But Teresa's spokesman, Jeff Lewis, was quick to deny the report. ``Teresa Heinz is too smart to say that,'' he said. ``She...

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...

'I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot' By Tim Reid The Democratic challenger repeatedly shot himself in the foot JOHN KERRY constantly squabbled with his difficult and hypochondriac wife, ran a campaign team riven by internal feuding, and repeatedly begged the Republican senator John McCain to become his running-mate, according to a riveting inside account of his doomed presidential bid. The Massachusetts senator was so obsessed with getting advice from a multitude of rival advisers that one aide confiscated his mobile telephone. His wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, became such a moody distraction that in the closing weeks of the...

Coming in Newsweek soon: Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, presented a host of behind-the-scenes drama for Kerry. Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady." Kerry's first campaign manager, James Jordan, had little patience for her strong opinions, sending emails trashing the candidate's wife...which inevitably reached his rivals within the campaign, including Bob Shrum (an old Teresa friend) and helped seal Jordan's eventual dismissal. One of the reasons I began to suspect Bush would...

Managing Teresa. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, presented a host of behind-the-scenes drama for Kerry. Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady." Kerry's first campaign manager, James Jordan, had little patience for her strong opinions, sending emails trashing the candidate's wife...which inevitably reached his rivals within the campaign, including Bob Shrum (an old Teresa friend) and helped seal Jordan's eventual dismissal. Later came Kerry campaign's post-convention "Sea to Shining Sea" tour: a 3,500-mile...

PITTSBURGH -- Teresa Heinz Kerry called attacks on her husband's foreign policy views "Neanderthal" while meeting with current and former Republicans who said they plan to vote for Sen. John Kerry. "The perpetration of certain myths that diplomacy and alliances are a sign of weakness is Neanderthal," Heinz Kerry said at the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign headquarters in Pittsburgh. "I never heard of teaching a child to make enemies so they can get along in the playground." Heinz Kerry spoke after listening to six people -- including business owners, a retired Air Force general and Pennsylvania mayors -- talk about their...

PITTSBURGH -- Teresa Heinz Kerry called attacks on her husband's foreign policy views "Neanderthal" while meeting with current and former Republicans who said they plan to vote for Sen. John Kerry. "The perpetration of certain myths that diplomacy and alliances are a sign of weakness is Neanderthal," Heinz Kerry said at the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign headquarters in Pittsburgh. "I never heard of teaching a child to make enemies so they can get along in the playground." Heinz Kerry spoke after listening to six people -- including business owners, a retired Air Force general and Pennsylvania mayors -- talk about their...

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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.

Teresa Heinz Kerry came to an Allentown rally Wednesday to energize supporters of her husband, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, with six days to go until the election. Several hundred cheering and placard-waving people showed up at the offices of Local 677 of the United Auto Workers union to hear Heinz Kerry talk up her husband's health care plan, make a plea in favor of science and stem cell research, encourage voters to support Democratic congressional candidate Joe Driscoll and to heap criticism on President Bush. ''My husband will show a face of America that's compassionate, but not condescending,'' Heinz...

... 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.

I was reviewing the specific quote of Matilda Cuomo from 1994 when a caller mentioned it on Drudge. From NewsMax --- But for sheer unadulterated nastiness, it's hard to top the remarks of the family matriarch, Matlida Cuomo, who warned on the eve of Pataki's 1994 victory that electing him would cause racial unrest. "We could have race riots," Mrs. Cuomo predicted in a New York Daily News interview - an insult to both Pataki and the African-Americans on whose votes New York State Democrats were relying. =========================================== These people are whackjobs. What is wrong with DemocRATS? Their party has...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said his wife simply made a mistake when she said she didn't know if first lady Laura Bush has ever held "a real job." "She misspoke, as many of us do in life. And I've misspoken. How many times have I misspoken or the president or somebody else?" Kerry said in an interview for broadcast Monday on NBC's "Today" show. Kerry said he loves his wife's "outspokenness. I think Americans love her. Because she's authentic. She speaks her mind. And she tells the truth. And Americans want the truth."[snip]In the "Today" interview...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004 2:21 p.m. EDTHeinz Kerry Called Political 'Disaster' Her remarks early this week criticizing First Lady Laura Bush for never having "a real job" show that Teresa Heinz Kerry is a political "disaster," two of John Kerry's biggest media supporters said Sunday. "Let me just say the obvious," former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan told NBC's "Chris Matthews Show." "She is a disaster." "I vote with Andrew," Newsweek correspondent Howard Fineman quickly added. "Listening to talk radio in Ohio [this week], that's all they were talking about, Teresa Heinz." The negative assessment came after...

If Senator John Kerry wins the presidency nine days from now, his family will be the richest ever (even adjusted for inflation) to occupy the White House. How rich? And how much taxes does this rich family pay to Uncle Sam? Well, that's where things start to get murky. And there are no signs voters will get any illumination on the subject before election day. Despite repeated promises from the Kerry campaign back in May that Teresa Heinz Kerry would disclose her 2003 tax returns this October, this week's release of just two pages of her 1040 form (with no...

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...

Federally funded Botox clinics. Diamond pickle pins. Fish stew for state dinners, followed by green tea and Portuguese pound cake. Pre-nups and private Gulfstream jets. Hermes bags, aromatherapy, homeopathic remedies and $4,000 Chanel suits. No more twin sets. No more twins. Blowsy hair, brassy mouth and bossy boots.     Is mainstream America ready for Teresa Heinz Kerry, a woman who radio host Don Imus wonders might be "too crazy to be first lady"?      "Well, they better be," said Betty Ford's former press secretary Sheila Weidenfeld. "I think she's going to be controversial, which is good. That's because she'll speak...

Mort Zuckerman of US News and World Report reacts to the Teresa situation: 'This goes to a problem that the Democratic party has, which is that as the party of the so-called working and middle class, they now look like if they are an elitist group of the technology, education, and entertainment elite.And what her comments reinforce, is the fact that both John Kerry and she do not seem to be easily identifying with the working and middle classes of America, for whom they wish to speak ('After Hours', MSNBC)

I understand moms don't read websites. Moms don't blog either (except for, say, MommyPundit or 200 other momblogs) or read newspapers or magazines. They probably don't even vote. At least Teresa Heinz Kerry should hope they don't. When the would-be first lady decided to take a shot at Laura Bush in yesterday's USA Today by stating that Mrs. Bush had never held a "real job," she committed the rarest of things — a triple gaffe. Like triple plays in baseball, these are rarely seen in these days of well-coached candidates and spouses. But Tuesday's was one for the ages. First,...

The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has been forced to apologise after criticising First Lady Laura Bush in a newspaper interview. Heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, 66, told the USA Today newspaper: "I don't know that she's ever had a real job." Mrs Bush has previously worked as both a teacher and a librarian. The aspiring First Lady, who inherited the $500m Heinz fortune, later said she had "forgotten" about Mrs Bush's "important" careers. In her interview, Mrs Heinz Kerry said: "I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her...

A light tax burden and contempt for the institution of motherhood? Just another day in the life of the potential first lady. Between fits of demeaning motherhood and revealing the miniscule tax burden she pays on her enormous income, it has been a deservedly terrible week for potential first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry. Tax Troubles Mrs. Kerry released two pages of her 2003 individual income tax form, which expose how she used tax shelters to avoid paying her “fair share” of income taxes. In fact, she contributed a smaller percentage of her income in taxes than most middle class taxpayers. She...

TERESA: TEACHING ISN'T A 'REAL JOB' [10/20 12:19 PM] From USA Today interview with Teresa Heinz Kerry: Q: You'd be different from Laura Bush? A: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. What arrogance. Stunning, unmitigated arrogance! From the White House: Inspired by her second grade teacher, she earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Southern Methodist University in 1968. She...

Teresa Heinz Kerry touched off a firestorm yesterday — and was forced to quickly apologize — by saying First Lady Laura Bush has never held "a real job," even though she's been a teacher, librarian and full-time mom. "I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up," Mrs. Kerry told USA Today in making the case that she'd be a better first lady. [snip] "She showed snide disrespect that's sure to alienate some of the millions of women who either have made the choice to stay at home to raise...

Senator John Kerry's wife reinforced her reputation as a political loose cannon yesterday when she said President George W Bush's wife, Laura, had never had a real job. Teresa Heinz Kerry appeared not only to make the politically hazardous move of disdaining the role of a stay-at-home mother, but also to forget that Mrs Bush was a teacher and librarian. Her unguarded remark in the USA Today newspaper risks infuriating suburban housewives, the "swing" constituency her husband has spent the past fortnight wooing from Mr Bush. Asked how she would be different from Mrs Bush, she said: "I don't know...

Teresa Heinz Kerry issued an apology yesterday for saying she doubted that Laura Bush, the president's wife, "ever had a real job." Bush's work as a teacher and librarian in Texas, and then as a mother of twin girls, has been well publicized. In comments that touched off a bit of panic among some Democrats, and some disgust in the Bush camp, Heinz Kerry -- wife of Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry -- told USA Today that she would differ from Bush as first lady by continuing her career as a philanthropist and also because her "experience is a...

THK Issues Apology-'I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as First Lady, and an sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past.'Karen Hughes on CNN: 'In some ways the apology made the comment worse because she has forgotten that being a mother is a real job..I think her comments throw an inappropriate wedge for women who choose to work at home and women who choose to work outside the home.'

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Teresa Heinz Kerry has been quiet of late and a comment published in the USA Today shows why the Kerry campaign has had her under wraps. In response to a question on how she would be different from Laura Bush, the would be First Lady goes on the attack. Heinz-Kerry tells the interviewer, “Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience...

p>To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Sarah Gegenheimer of Kerry Edwards 2004, 202-464-2800 PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Teresa Heinz Kerry released the following statement today: "I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a school teacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full time mom and full time in workforce, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as First Lady, and am sincerely sorry I had not...

Teresa Heinz Kerry is Chairman of the Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Heinz Endowments. She is also the creator of the prestigious Heinz Awards, an annual program recognizing outstanding vision and achievement in the arts, public policy, technology, the economy, and employment, the environment, and the human condition. After the death of her husband, U.S. Senator John Heinz, in 1991, Teresa was urged by national and Pennsylvania political leaders to seek election to his Senate seat. She chose instead to assume direction of the family’s extensive philanthropic operations, undertaking a major reorganization designed to sharpen the foundations’ strategic focus. Today,...

Q to Teresa: You'd be different from Laura Bush? A: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. ... Name at Birth: Laura Welch Laura Bush is the wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from Southern Methodist University and a master's degree in library science from the University of Texas; after...

TERESA: TEACHING ISN'T A 'REAL JOB' [10/20 12:19 PM] From USA Today interview with Teresa Heinz Kerry: Q: You'd be different from Laura Bush? A: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. What arrogance. Stunning, unmitigated arrogance! From the White House: Inspired by her second grade teacher, she earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Southern Methodist University in 1968. She...

Heinz Kerry called President Bush's decision not to sign onto the Kyoto Protocol, an international compact for reducing atmospheric pollution -"a huge diplomatic blunder." "I think this president should have joined this effort" even if it is imperfect, said Heinz Kerry. "Without that we have no leverage and no right."