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  Teresa Heinz Kerry - dKosopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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.
The Heinz Endowments (the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment)
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Teresa_Heinz_Kerry   (2011 words)

  
 The Americanization of Teresa Heinz Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Heinz Kerry says the key to grasping her candor, her style, as it were, is to understand her as an immigrant who grew up under one dictatorship and lost the family home to another.
Teresa Heinz, in America for less than a decade and still operating under the premise that she was in a place where open expression was a reasonable thing, was clearly taken aback by her treatment.
Teresa, at 52, with three sons, was left with the weight of her husband's political legacy, a personal fortune somewhere around $500 million and three Heinz foundations that now total $1.3 billion.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04116/305510.stm   (2352 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)

  
 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.
THK The problems in the world, my age, and the fact that John’s time has come, my thinking that he has a set of credentials and experiences that enable him to be a wise leader at this time.
www.msmagazine.com /spring2004/heinzkerry.asp   (1200 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)

  
 Millionaire with attitude adds spice to US elections - theage.com.au
Teresa Heinz Kerry thinks that Hillary Clinton should have shot her husband for being unfaithful, that plastic surgery is essential, and that rabbit meat provides the best diet for children.
Mrs Heinz Kerry, who has also been known to tap her husband on the arm, mid-speech, to correct him, married Senator Kerry in 1995, after her first husband, Republican senator John Heinz, only son of the founders of the food empire, died in a plane crash.
Mrs Heinz Kerry - a fiery 64-year-old who inherited $A900 million from her late husband - dresses almost exclusively in Chanel, has a private jet, the Flying Squirrel, and owns a collection of Dutch old masters so valuable that her insurance company will not allow them to be photographed.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/07/1052280319579.html   (473 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.
But her performance was being scrutinized not for what she would say about Kerry so much as whether she would go "off-message." On Sunday, Heinz Kerry was caught on camera in a confrontation with an editorial writer for a Pittsburgh newspaper owned by right-wing philanthropist and Whitewater figure Richard Mellon Scaife.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/07/28/heinz_kerry/index.html   (658 words)

  
 JohnKerry.com - About Teresa Heinz Kerry
Born in Mozambique, fluent in several languages, Teresa Heinz Kerry has combined compassion and common sense to become a force for innovation and social progress as leader of one of the nation's large private foundations.
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.
She and John Kerry were married in the presence of her three sons and his two daughters on Memorial Day weekend in 1995.
www.johnkerry.com /about/teresa   (418 words)

  
 FactCheck.org Internet "Whispering Campaigns" Falsely Accuse Teresa Heinz Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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)

  
 In The Northwest: Teresa Heinz Kerry hasn't lost her outspoken way
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.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: A practicing Catholic, as is her husband, Heinz Kerry remains outraged at attacks by bishops on her husband's pro-choice views.
Heinz Kerry is still steamed at what the Republican attack machine did to her husband.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /connelly/214744_joel07.html   (1110 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)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry (born October 5, 1938), is a philanthropist and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teresa_Heinz_Kerry   (1885 words)

  
 Heinz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kerry who is the widow of ketchup heir John Heinz - from 1993 to 2001, including a $2,500 personal contribution from her in 2000.
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.
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)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left by Ben Johnson
With Matt Drudge’s recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam “brothers,” the senator’s presidential campaign may depend more than ever on the actions of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
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).
www.frontpagemag.com /articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12187   (1798 words)

  
 Transcript: Teresa Heinz Kerry (washingtonpost.com)
KERRY: I am grateful -- I am so grateful for the opportunity to stand before you and to say a few words about my husband, John Kerry, and why I firmly believe that he should be the next president of the United States.
HEINZ: And my only hope is that one day soon, My only hope is that, one day soon, women, who have all earned their right to their opinions...
KERRY: With John Kerry as president, global climate change and other threats to the health of our planet will begin to be reversed.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A19797-2004Jul27.html   (1645 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.
RH: Here is what the Kerry/Edwards campaign says about Teresa Kelly: "Born in Mozambique, fluent in several languages, she has combined compassion and common sense to become a force for innovation and social progress as leader of one of the nation's large private foundations.
Teresa was born in Mozambique in east Africa.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Webpage/teresa_heinz_kerry.htm   (1470 words)

  
 Teresa Heinz Kerry says U.S. will one day accept gay marriage
Heinz Kerry was campaigning for her husband Tuesday in San Francisco, which has become the epicenter of the gay marriage debate since the city began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Heinz Kerry said she sees the same sex marriage debate from the perspective of a mother because she has many friends struggling to come to terms with children who are gay.
The heinz's are the puppets of the commies in the un.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1084720/posts   (2581 words)

  
 Citizens for Legitimate Government
John Kerry believes we must, and we should, recognize the immense value of the caregivers in our country­those women and men who nurture and care for children, for elderly parents, for family members in need.
With John Kerry as president, global climate change and other threats to the health of our planet will begin to be reversed.
With John Kerry as president, the alliances that bind the community of nations and that truly make our country and the world a safer place, will be strengthened once more.
www.legitgov.org /speech_heinz_kerry_dem_convention_072704.html   (1477 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Teresa Heinz Kerry Addresses Democratic Delegates -- July 27, 2004
KWAME HOLMAN: On the road, the 65- year-old Heinz Kerry frequently mentions her immigrant status; she was born in Mozambique and raised there by her European parents.
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.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/heinzkerry_7-27.html   (1959 words)

  
 Colby and Beyond!: Kerry's Teresa Problem - Need to link to Colby and Beyond... email ptsemmens@gmail.com
Teresa promotes the Kerry Health Care plan and reminisces about her experiences with the medicinal qualities of “gin-raisins”.
COOKIE GATE: After Teresa Heinz Kerry's cookie recipe bombs in the 2004 Presidential Cookie Cook-Off she denies that the recipe is really hers.
Heinz Kerry, the wife of the about-to-be Democratic nominee, has been thinking how she could tell America the truth: the recipe isn't hers.
colbycollege.blogspot.com /2004/10/kerrys-teresa-problem.html   (2210 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)

  
 Kerry's Secret Sauce - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kerry's wife was a registered Republican until last year, muses publicly that she's not reflexively pro-choice and, perhaps most shockingly, when asked a question, generally answers it.
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.
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   (1142 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.
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.
John Kerry proposes refundable tax credits for up to 50 percent of the cost of health care coverage to small businesses and their employees, as well as access to the Congressional Health Plan to save them an additional 15 percent in health care costs.
www.public.iastate.edu /~hoyj/Teresa.html   (2747 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Heinz Kerry: Cheney 'Unpatriotic' - You Decide 2004
While the Bush campaign has not explicitly charged Kerry as unpatriotic, Kerry has said that the criticism of his war record and his position on defense issues are attempts to raise questions about his patriotism.
"Yesterday, Teresa Heinz Kerry called the vice president of the United States 'unpatriotic.' This political line of attack is offensive and should be stopped," said Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot in a statement on Friday.
The interview with Heinz Kerry, originally conducted by Telemundo and replayed on NBC Nightly News on Thursday, throws gasoline on the long-burning fire over the candidates' military histories.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,119296,00.html   (620 words)

  
 >bt: Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Teresa’s comments answered those who wondered whether she had yet grown tired of the taste of her own feet.
Teresa Heinz Kerry was given a prime-time speaking role, the first time such an honor has ever been bestowed on a candidate’s wife at a national party convention.
At least then, his wife Teresa “I can’t believe I live in America” Heinz Kerry might be happy.
brain-terminal.com /posts/category/people/teresa-heinz-kerry   (1621 words)

  
 The Queen of All Evil: Teresa Heinz Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
She and Sen. Kerry were married in the presence of her three sons and his two daughters on Memorial Day weekend in 1995.
In addition to her three sons and two step-daughters, Teresa is the almost inordinately (but understandably) proud grandmother of one grandchild.
I do think if Kerry gets elected, she is gonna have a hard time with the press but she is smart so she'll probably learn to deal with it soon enough.
www.qoae.net /archives/000437.html   (624 words)

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