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  Teresa Heinz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Teresa Heinz is the life estate beneficiary or outright beneficiary of her husband's trusts, making her either extremely wealthy in her own name, or powerful as a trustee of Heinz family wealth.
Teresa Heinz was a registered Republican for most of her voting career, the same as her first husband, Senator Heinz, and she remained a registered Republican despite being married to the Democratic Senator John Kerry.
The Heinz Endowments (the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teresa_Heinz_Kerry   (1876 words)

  
 Heinz Family Philanthropies - Heinz Family History
Heinz (and other family members) was in large part responsible for the creation of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, requiring all food companies to maintain strict safety standards.
Heinz assumed chairmanship of the Howard Heinz Endowment.
She is currently chairman of the Heinz Family Philanthropies (The Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation, The Heinz Family Foundation, and The H. John Heinz III Foundation), considered among the nation's most innovative philanthropic institutions.
www.hfp.heinz.org /aboutus/heinzhistory.html   (1984 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry - dKosopedia
Teresa Heinz Kerry, in full Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry (born October 5, 1938), is a philanthropist and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was the Democratic challenger and who lost in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
Heinz Kerry was a registered Republican for most of her voting career, and her first husband, Senator Heinz, ran as a Republican.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, formerly Teresa Sim�es-Ferreira, is married to U.S. Senator John Forbes Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Teresa_Heinz_Kerry   (2011 words)

  
 The Heinz Awards
Teresa Heinz 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.
Heinz gave a major grant in her late husband's memory to the Yale Art Gallery, where she is a Trustee of the Governing Board.
www.heinzawards.net /about.asp?staticid=7   (923 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry
This means that Mrs Teresa Heinz Kerry has, at the very least, doubled her wealth since 1994, amply confirming my friend's assessment of the return on her capital.
Yet Teresa Heinz Kerry put her hand on her heart and declared with the kind of sincerity that only a bleeding heart Democrat has the nerve to muster that she only earned $5.1 million for 2003.
That Teresa Heinz Kerry has deliberately circumvented the law in the name of charity in order to finance these vicious groups is in itself an immoral act, and one that bears investigating by the IRS.
www.brookesnews.com /theresa_heinz_kerry.html   (892 words)

  
 Ron Arnold and Teresa Heinz Kerry - SourceWatch
Heinz Kerry is the widow of the late Senator H. John Heinz III who was killed in a plane crash in 1991.
Following his death Teresa Heinz became chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment and she is now also Chairman of the board of the Heinz Family Foundations.
Heinz Kerry said that the bulk of the grants criticised by Arnold originated from the Vira Heinz Endowment which is chaired by Walton.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ron_Arnold_and_Teresa_Heinz_Kerry   (971 words)

  
 FactCheck.org Internet "Whispering Campaigns" Falsely Accuse Teresa Heinz Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Heinz Kerry chairs the Howard Heinz Endowment, the larger of the two, and is a member of the board of directors of the smaller Vira I. Heinz Endowment.
As the H.J. Heinz Company reports in its most recent proxy statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Heinz Kerry is not on the company's board of directors, nor is she listed among the principal shareholders (those who control 5% or more of the outstanding shares).
Teresa Heinz Kerry, Senator John Kerry nor any member of their family is involved in the management or board of the H. Heinz Company.
www.factcheck.org /article.aspx?docID=224   (2061 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry
Edgar Knowlton writes: "Re Teresa Heinz Kerry, she mentioned living under a dictator in Mozambique--I was not even sure who the dictator was, didn't Salazar stay pretty much in Portugal?--but gave more attention to her experience as a student in South Africa where she saw, and marched against apartheid.
Under her leadership, the Heinz foundations are widely known for developing innovative strategies to protect the environment, improve education and the lives of young children, reduce the cost of prescription drugs, promote the arts and help women achieve financial economic security.
Teresa was born in Mozambique in east Africa.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Webpage/teresa_heinz_kerry.htm   (1470 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry on her husband - Hardball with Chris Matthews - MSNBC.com
BOSTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry sat down with Chris Matthews about her views on what her husband would have done if he were president on 9/11, why her husband wants to serve the country, and the potential of being a foreign-born First Lady on Sunday's “Hardball with Chris Matthews” 7-8 p.m.
Heinz Kerry: You know, in a world that is as globalized as it is, and I mean by that communications, travel and economies, it’s probably not a disadvantage to have lived in other countries and have other yard sticks.
Heinz Kerry: I think before we even went to war, I think we set the whole thing on a bad premise, on a bad platform, and then adding insult to the injury, which is calling other people old or incompetent or whatever, doesn’t help make friends.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5511609   (2076 words)

  
 Who's afraid of Teresa Heinz? - Salon
John Heinz III, she runs the Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies; she created the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement, the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and the Heinz Plan to Overcome Prescription Drug Expenses.
When she was 24, Heinz lost her sister in a car accident; her first husband's death came after 25 years of marriage.
If Teresa Heinz has a handicap in this race, it is the growing reluctance of Americans to believe that such a woman, at least in the realm of politics, might truly exist.
www.salon.com /mwt/feature/2003/05/14/teresa_heinz/index.html   (1582 words)

  
 Ms. Magazine | Teresa Heinz Kerry: An Activist First Lady?
The daughter of a Portuguese doctor and a homemaker, Teresa Simoes-Ferreira was born in 1938 in Mozambique.
Heinz, a Republican, was elected to Congress in 1971 and then went on to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate.
Teresa Heinz Kerry was named by The New York Times as “one of the nation’s leading philanthropists” and by Utne Magazine as one of 100 American visionaries (“people who could change your life”).
www.msmagazine.com /spring2004/heinzkerry.asp   (1200 words)

  
 Heinz
Teresa Heinz, no longer the Audrey-Hepburnesque beauty of the ’60s but still attractive as she enters her ’60s (said one newspaper), has been deeply involved in environmental causes for decades.
The Heinz Endowments, which are really two entities— the Howard Heinz Endowment, established in 1941, and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment, established in 1986—give large grants to people Teresa Heinz knows personally, such as environmentalist architect William McDonough, a family friend who once employed Heinz’s son.
Heinz herself is quite a veteran: in 1989, she helped stop a highway through the Amazon jungle, and in 1984 she and husband Senator John Heinz created a foundation that paid for causes such as a guide to socially responsible grocery shopping and a public relations firm that recruits Hollywood stars to support environmental efforts.
www.undueinfluence.com /heinz.htm   (2458 words)

  
 John Kerry Sucks - The truth about John F. Kerry - Flush The Johns
Teresa Heinz Kerry hasn't lost her outspoken way - Teresa Heinz slams the Catholic church and the election process.
Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, and was educated in Switzerland and South Africa.
Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry to sign a pre-nuptial agreement before they were married.
www.johnfkerrysucks.com /teresa_heinz_kerry.html   (1039 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Profile: Teresa Heinz Kerry
Teresa Heinz Kerry studied in South Africa and Switzerland, where she met her first husband, John Heinz.
He was heir to the Heinz ketchup dynasty and went on to be a Republican senator from Pennsylvania.
Heinz was killed in a plane crash in 1991, leaving his widow an estimated $500m and control of the $1.2bn Heinz charities.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3932349.stm   (565 words)

  
 Meet Teresa's Wealthy Friends: The Heinz Foundations and the Kerry Campaign by Ron Arnold
Teresa Heinz Kerry is the widow of the late Pennsylvania Senator and ketchup heir H. John Heinz III.
Heinz Kerry also wouldn't have to resign her vice-chairmanship of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in Washington, D.C. She established the Center with a $20 million grant from the Vira I. Heinz Endowment in 1995.
But Teresa Heinz Kerry leads and funds philanthropic foundations, and she sits on the board of directors of highly political nonprofit groups that receive her foundations' support and that can advance or frustrate the policies of her husband, should he become President.
www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=3573   (3064 words)

  
 Kerry's Secret Sauce - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
Despite its undeniable appeal, Teresa's candor was an issue in the earliest phase of the campaign—when, for instance, she called a pre-nup a must and said she'd maim any husband of hers who fooled around.
Not only could Teresa charm the faithful, but she could work crucial swing states where her moderate politics might win over voters if they could be convinced that Kerry, who's struggling at the moment, would give his Rockefeller Republican wife a voice in the White House.
And Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is, as she says, "a little of everything." She was born in 1938 in Mozambique, where her father, a Portuguese doctor, took her on rounds in the bush.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4825959   (1057 words)

  
 "My name is Teresa Heinz Kerry" - Salon
In convention parlance, Heinz Kerry "stuck to the script." She's known for freewheeling ad-libs, but her speech was on teleprompter, a device she used for the first time.
Above all, Heinz Kerry came to tell the American people why her husband should be president of the United States.
She and the campaign then endured two days of endless questioning in the media -- "Is Teresa Heinz Kerry an asset or a liability?" -- just in time for the Democrats' big moment.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/07/28/heinz_kerry/index.html   (658 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Teresa Heinz Kerry Addresses Democratic Delegates -- July 27, 2004
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: What I saw from abroad, from a third world country, the face of America was a face very different from what I knew.
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: We need to turn back some of the creepy un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into our some of our politics.
Heinz was killed in a plane crash in 1991.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/heinzkerry_7-27.html   (1959 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry: 2004 Election Was Hacked : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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:
Heinz Kerry flew into town on her own Gulfstream jet (the Flying Squirrel, named for a Sun Valley ski run) direct from a conference on global philanthropy at Stanford.
Heinz Kerry is still steamed at what the Republican attack machine did to her husband.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/03/1711975.php   (1039 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz
Teresa Lynn Heinz would be the first to acknowledge the power of a good teacher.
Heinz is one of the first graduate students to earn the Department of Communication and Culture’s Certificate of Pedagogy, and she has worked with new graduate teaching assistants as part of the department’s Peer Mentoring Program.
Heinz is committed to making connections: between her research and her teaching, between the “real world” and the academy and, most of all, between herself and her students.
www.indiana.edu /~ocmhp/022505/text/heinz.shtml   (428 words)

  
 CNN.com - Teresa Heinz Kerry promotes 'women's voices' - Jul 28, 2004
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, an unconventional and outspoken political spouse, declared Tuesday night it was time to "hear women's voices" as she appeared before the Democratic National Convention to make the case for her husband's election to the White House.
Heinz Kerry grabbed headlines at the start of the convention after telling a reporter to "shove it" when he questioned her about a speech she had given -- in which she touched on the erosion of civility in politics.
Heinz, who later became a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, was killed in a plane accident in 1991.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/dems.teresa   (798 words)

  
 Remarks of Teresa Heinz
The following are remarks made by Teresa Heinz following the presentation to her of the World Ecology Award by the International Center for Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Teresa Heinz is chairman of the Heinz Family Philanthropies and of the Howard Heinz Endowment.
She also is the creator of the prestigious Heinz Awards, an annual program recognizing outstanding vision and achievement in the arts, public policy, technology and the economy, the environment and the human condition.
www.wildbirds.org /why/heinz.htm   (2396 words)

  
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The Heinz Family Foundation gave LCV at least $20,000 and donated almost $250,000 to a member of the LCV board.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, George Soros, Bill Moyers and the Ford Foundation fund the Tides Foundation/Center; Tides funds the National Lawyers Guild, CAIR, MoveOn.org and United for Peace and Justice; those organizations then unite in fluid coalitions to protest against their common political enemies (Republicans).
This profile was adapted from the article "Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left," written by Ben Johnson and published by FrontPageMagazine.com on February 13, 2004.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1629   (1766 words)

  
 CNN.com - Heinz Kerry apologizes for remark  - Oct 21, 2004
Heinz Kerry said she was "sincerely sorry" for the remark.
Born in Mozambique, Heinz Kerry worked for the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations in the 1960s when she moved to the United States.
She has also been the chairman of The Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies since her first husband, Sen. John Heinz, died in a plane crash in 1991.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/theresa.apologizes.laura/index.html   (516 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry
The claim that Teresa is a "paradox of conflicts" is unsubstantiated and whether or not such a claim is interesting is subjective.
Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry to sign a prenuptial agreement before they were married.
I do not know if Teresa Heinz Kerry required John Kerry to sign a pre-nup, and I do not think it is a condemnation of her character or her marriage if she did.
www.public.iastate.edu /~hoyj/Teresa.html   (2747 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: A Bad Week for Teresa by Ben Johnson
The activities of the H. John Heinz III Foundation and the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation, which she heads, remain concealed — including how they are funded and the groups they endow.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has steered a great deal of her politically motivated “philanthropy” to “campaign finance reform” organizations — indeed, she sits on the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution.
Heinz Kerry’s clueless statements would be unimportant if Heinz Kerry planned to, say, stay at home and bake cookies as first lady.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15609   (1179 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Heinz Sight)
In 1995 the Heinz Endowments and family trusts sold a large percentage of Heinz shares in a secondary share offering to diversify their holdings.
Moreover, the Heinz Company's operations are not an example of the type of outsourcing that is currently a hot political issue (i.e., sending out work to offshore companies to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform).
Currently, 60% of the sales of the H.J. Heinz Company are outside the United States and to accommodate those customers by providing facilities closer to those markets, the company maintains a number of overseas facilities that provide products for consumers in those markets.
www.snopes.com /politics/kerry/heinz.asp   (694 words)

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