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(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - There are new details in the controversy over Sen. John Kerry's brand new boat. Kerry may still be on the hook for a half million dollars in excise taxes because he docked his yacht in Massachusetts less than six months after buying it.

This is rich. Or should I say for the rich, whom John Kerry likes to denigrate at every turn. After running on eliminating outsourcing and abolishing tax havens, we have this: "Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is docking his family's new $7 million yacht in neighboring Rhode Island, allowing him to avoid paying roughly $500,000 in taxes to the cash-strapped Bay State. If the "Isabel" were kept at the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee's summer vacation home on Nantucket, or in Boston Harbor near his city residence, he would be liable for $437,500 in one-time sales tax. He would also have to...

BOSTON – Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is docking his family's new $7 million yacht in neighboring Rhode Island, allowing him to avoid paying roughly $500,000 in taxes to the cash-strapped Bay State. If the "Isabel" were kept at the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee's summer vacation home on Nantucket, or in Boston Harbor near his city residence, he would be liable for $437,500 in one-time sales tax. He would also have to pay $70,000 in annual excise taxes. Rhode Island repealed those taxes in 1993. That has made the state something of a nautical tax haven.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (2nd L) shakes hands with Senator John Kerry (D-MA) during a luncheon hosted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 13, 2010, as Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)(left) and Senator Joseph Lieberman (right), look on. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., at a news conference, with industry leaders, announcing their climate change bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Now instead of Climate Change or Cap & Trade, they are calling it The American Power Act.... WASHINGTON - MAY 04: Senate Finance Committee member Sen. John...

Why the long face, John? John Kerry ripped on Republicans during his speech to rally the troops at the Coakley event yesterday. Kerry was one of several top liberals who came to support Coakley in Boston including Bush-bashing truck-bashing President Barack Obama. Here’s JFnK bashing Republicans and whining about the democrat’s disastrous

Kerry Warns of "Dangerous Atmosphere" Around Brown Rallies [Daniel Foster] Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) thinks Scott Brown’s rallies in the Bay State are “reminiscent of the dangerous atmosphere of Sarah Palin’s 2008 campaign rallies,” the Boston Globe is reporting. Kerry says Brown supporters have engaged in “bullying and intimidation tactics” in the past few days and suggests that some of them may even be from out of state (would the senator rather keep the race local?) “I'm no stranger to hard fought campaigns, but what we've seen in the past few days is way over the line and reminiscent...

THE POODLE SPEAKS According to John Kerry, McCain did not choose Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman as his VP because ... Rush Limbaugh and the rightwing vetoed it. And when it comes to McCain's actual choice, Sarah Palin ... John Kerry says that because Palin doesn't believe in man-made global warming, this puts her back there with the "flat earth caucus." So there you go. If you don't believe in this global warming scam, then you might as well believe that the earth is flat. And this is coming from a man who could have been president of the United...

Looking to get re-elected, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry went on a campaign binge on Saturday night -- at a Nantucket house party full of young chicks. Electoral college girls gone wild! The married 65-year-old hung out with some Bud Light drinking constituents who, we are told, are college sophomores and juniors. We hope John's campaign is ready for the Senator to get tagged in some Facebook photos with ladies drinking through penis straws. No word if John had to kiss any babies.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, who was the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, is leaving the door open - a crack - that he would accept his party's nomination for vice president this year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. John Kerry today made the follow statement in response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision that foreign detainees held at Guantanamo Bay may challenge their detention in U.S. courts: “Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what almost everyone but the Administration and their defenders in Congress always knew. The Constitution and the rule of law bind all of us even in extraordinary times of war. No one is above the Constitution. The historic writ of habeas corpus endures. This is a major rebuke of the Administration’s post-9/11 policies that have divided us at home, alienated and isolated...

On the heels of a directive to soldiers from America’s top military official to stay out of politics, Senator John McCain acknowledged that his use of Gen. David H. Petraeus’s picture in a fund-raising pitch was not appropriate. “It won’t happen again,” he vowed at a news conference this afternoon. This morning, the Obama camp dispatched a statement from Senator John Kerry criticizing Mr. McCain’s use of a photo of the top commander in Iraq in a fund-raising pitch that went out to supporters via e-mail on Thursday. “It’s deeply disappointing that Sen. McCain is using a picture of General...

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) believes that on September 11 "we were basically at peace." Asked to clarify his remarks, specifically asking about the attacks on the U.S.S. Cole during Barack Obama campaign conference call, Kerry said, "well, we hadn't declared war," The Hill's Sam Youngman reports. Asked if al Qaeda was a threat at the time, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee said, "well yes, obviously they were a threat. But, fundamentally we were not at war at that point in time." Kerry also called John McCain "out of step with history and facts."

WAHSINGTON, DC – Senator John Kerry made the following statement today, in response to President Bush’s partisan attacks from Israel’s Knesset. “President Bush is still playing the disgusting and dangerous political game Karl Rove perfected which is insulting to every American and disrespectful to our ally Israel. “George Bush should be making Israel secure, not slandering Barack Obama from the Knesset. If George Bush believes engagement with Iran is appeasement, the first thing he should do when he comes home is demand the resignation of his own Cabinet. Secretary Gates and Secretary Rice have both favored negotiations with Iran. “The...

12/28/2007 Senator Kerry: Veto of Defense Authorization Bill a "Disgrace" Boston, MA – Sen. John Kerry issued the following statement today regarding President Bush's expected veto of H.R. 1585, the fiscal year 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. "Only George Bush could be for supporting the troops before he was against it,” said Kerry. “We fought against this White House to provide our men and women in uniform a decent pay raise and now three days after Christmas George Bush says he'll veto it. What a disgrace. This fight has just begun and it won't end until we do right by...

WASHINGTON - Massachusetts Senator John Kerry wants the United States and its allies to send 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan to help quell rising violence there. Kerry says Afghanistan marks the front line in the fight against terrorism. He cited a dramatic increase in the number of suicide bombings and other violence there this year. And he says Taliban and al-Qaida forces have regrouped along the Afghan-Pakistan border. Kerry urged the United States to lean hard on its NATO allies for help. More troops would make the military less reliant on air strikes, which he said results in civilian casualties...

BOSTON - A liar. A traitor. Hanoi John. U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s comments on Monday regarding a possible future bid for the presidency, and his arming up against the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, are reopening old wounds from the Vietnam War and the 2004 presidential race. ``He’s a liar,'' said J. Craig Herman of Pahoa, Hawaii, a former U.S. naval officer and registered Republican. ``Real heroes and real Navy officers do not not waltz around with a ... camera taking pictures of themselves on duty.'' While some veterans question Kerry’s military decorations and fault his subsequent actions as...

John Kerry said Monday there might be a next time for his presidential aspirations, and if there is, the 63-year-old U.S. senator from Massachusetts says he’ll be ready for the political torpedoes that helped sink his 2004 White House bid. Kerry, whose service as a U.S. Navy Swift boat skipper during the Vietnam War came under attack in his race against President Bush, said he has compiled a dossier on his war record critics that he wishes he had as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Senators' rubberstamp support for Bush's Iraq Policy, Refusal to Change Course will be Issue in '08 election WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Keeping America's Promise (KAP) launched a set of "user-generated" radio commercials to help defeat Republican Senators who have been roadblocks to changing course in Iraq, continuing their rubberstamp support of the Bush Iraq policy.  All six Senators are up for re-election in 2008.                The commercials are running in Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Texas on local radio stations in the hometowns of the sitting senators or in the state capital.                The...

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said a new report on Iraqi Security Forces shows the Bush administration's Iraq policy is failing. "If anyone still needs evidence that the Bush policy in Iraq isn’t working, this new report from our nation’s military experts is a clear-eyed assessment of its failure," Kerry said. "We are spending endless amounts of money on an army that is unwilling or unable to stand up for Iraq, while the president sends more Americans into the middle of a civil war we can not end." Kerry said he will continue to push for a plan for Iraq...

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