can anyone rebuke this crap?

[ButterflyBlood]

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married to
Senator
Kerry in 1995, she only took his name eighteen months ago. She is
an
interesting paradox of conflicts. I thought John Kerry was scary,
but he
doesn't hold a candle to his wife ... Maria Teresa Thiersten
Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerrywas born in Mozambique, the daughter
of a
Portuguese physician, and was educated in Switzerland and South
Africa.
Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United Nations
interpreter
in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a handsome young American,
H. John
Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told her his
family was "in
the food business."

They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his
family ran
the giant H. J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US
House of
Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first
of three
terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote a
burning
diatribe
against some of the causes backed by young House member John
Kerry.)

Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane
collided with a
Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The
senator, his
pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were
killed. He was
survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune,
she
married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior
senator from
Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process
of her
radicalization was set in motion.

Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required
Kerry to sign
a prenuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may
not have
checkwriting privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune,
but he is
certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it. A lot of
hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup,
mustard, and
pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who despise
successfulentrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory
redistribution of wealth.

So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money? Just one
example:
According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter
of
WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than
$4 million
to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the
Tides
Foundation do with John Heinz's money?

They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's
International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam
Hussein
when he's tried.

They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the
Tides
Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The
Democratic Justice
Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from
"terrorist"states.

They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose
leaders are
known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist
front
during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart,
has been
arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman,
communicate with
terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993
World
Trade Center bombing.

They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic
group whose primary
goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and
Texas to
Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through
the
anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity
of our
would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John
Heinz,
and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the
44th
President
of the United States.

If voters will only try to imagine a woman such as Teresa Heinz
Kerry, the
fairy godmother of the radical left, laying her head on a pillow
each night
just inches from the President of the United States, hopefully
they will
decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the
White
House is with an engraved invitation in hand.

Ans this woman could be our next first lady, man that thought is absolutely frightening.

[charlie105]

1. What's the source? Any links?

[Another Bill C.]

2. All you have to do

is go point by point and ask "Where's your evidence?"

[merh]

3. why is she running for office???

Check Kerry's site - I believe he has a source to go to regarding this type of stuff. If not, email it to his campaign.

Also, Urban Legends may have already debunked this.

[Ripley]

4. What is your purpose in posting such bullshit here?

It looks like freep spam to me.

[piece sine]

5. rebut???

We should be as proud as hell of her! This is a woman with real power, not some stay-at-home clone like Georgie-Poo's spouse. (Actually, I'm a tad bothered that's she been a Republican for a very long time, but these times demand concessions to people with wealth and power who can help us.)

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. sounds like the RWers are trying to turn her into the next Hillary

They are all so threatened by a strong woman. They make it seem that any woman with an opinion other than whats the best recipe for chocolate chip cookies is a controlling you know what. and I'm sick of it!!!!!!!!!!

[JHB]

7. So what?

List the "philanthropy" of Richard Mellon-Scaife, Adolph Coors & heirs, etc.

[neuvocat]

8. She just switched from Republican recently

so there's a lot of inconsistency right there.

Also, Snopes is your friend:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/heinz2.asp

[Delano]

9. If she is the "fairy godmother of the radical left" (LOL)...

and despises entrepreneurship, why was she a republican until a couple of years ago.

I understand that "she didn't leave the party, the party left her."

[merh]

14. She left the GOP because she felt the GOP abandoned

their principles when the attached and ran a nasty campaign against the congressman who was a vet and in a wheelchair, I can't recall his name but that was when she left in disgust - she say what nasty bastards they are.

[seabeyond]

10. anyone talk kerry's wife, my response will be

i am not feeding that. kerry's wife is her own, has nothing to do with election. we left bushies wife laura alone in killing someone, not going to play this game

the end. that is it., not feeding allowing sticking up for like we tried with hillary and chelsey

[veracity]

11. Back to McCarthy tactics?

Nothing here to discredit a very good and bright woman. Labeling the groups she supported as Communist fronts is a throwback to the fifites. Anyone who tries to defend that falls right into the trap being set that tries to portray LEFT and EVIL. It's time the left stood up proudly for what it believes, just as the RIGHT does. Theresa is a credit to any cause. She, like Hillary, is a liberated women who chose to keep her name, but realized it was politically helpful to take her husband's name. Smart move for the moment. Otherwise, not a whit of scandal here.

[denverbill]

12. From the Tides Foundation themselves.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tides Foundation and Tides Center Statement Regarding Recent Scrutiny over Heinz Endowments

Date: March 11, 2004

Tides Foundation and Tides Center have come under attack in several opinion pieces recently appearing in media such as the The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times, among others. The articles make false allegations relating specifically to Tides and the funding it receives from The Heinz Endowments, as well as Tides' support of a group called "September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows." The allegations are without merit, consisting entirely of errors and innuendo.

Here are the facts: The Heinz Endowments have granted Tides Foundation $230,000 dispensed between 1994 and 1998. These grants were used solely to support a pollution prevention initiative and other environmentally friendly practices by industries in Western Pennsylvania. Tides Center, an independent organization providing administrative and financial services to hundreds of projects across the country, has received additional support from The Heinz Endowments specifically to support projects in Pennsylvania. The vast majority of the projects funded through these endowments were related to either environmental protection or youth education. No Heinz- related money has gone to fund September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Senator John Kerry, chairs The Howard Heinz Endowment and sits on Vira I. Heinz Endowment's board.

For the record, the Tides family of organizations is proud to provide support and services to Peaceful Tomorrows - a grassroots organization whose activities revolve around nonviolence and peaceful resolutions - through Tides Foundation, Tides Center, and Groundspring.org, an organization that provides training and web-based services for online fundraising. Tides Foundation has made four grants in 2002 and 2003 for a combined total of $34,665 to Peaceful Tomorrows. Peaceful Tomorrows has raised $19,097 through Groundspring.org since August, 2002.

Tides Foundation employs donor advised funds, the same financial vehicle administered in precisely the same way as the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund and similar programs operated by Schwab, Vanguard, and more than 600 community foundations across the country. Tides works under the rigors of fund accounting, restricted grants, and annual audits, ensuring that all monies released by Tides are properly distributed and accounted for. Tides Center projects each raise funds for their individual program activities, with these funds being separately accounted for and administered. These funds are limited for the specific purposes for which they were given.

At Tides, our goal is a society based on fairness, equally shared economic opportunities, engaged and active citizens and environmental sustainability. In 2002 and 2003, Tides Foundation made more than 6,000 separate grants to nonprofit organizations totaling more than $100 million and Tides Center provides over 250 emerging projects with support services. Our work speaks for itself in the range of program activities that supports a diverse array of organizations working on projects from human rights to disaster relief and youth education.

Contact: Christopher J. Herrera
Tides Foundation
P: 415-561-6355
[e-mail]


http://www.tidesfoundation.org/press_rel_04.cfm

[bowens43]

13. Maybe I missed it

but I don't see anything bad here.....

[GiovanniC]

15. I Don't Know About Y'All

But I'll be engraving their invitations to the White House on November 2.

The right wing does not want to get into an argument about the sources and recipients of terror money, believe you me.