It looks like the right is really cranking up the machine to smear Teresa Heinz Kerry. A friend forwarded the following email to me today and asked if I had heard this story before.
Some great information on how Heinz's catsup became a supporter of many far
left adventures.
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. 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 U.S. House of Representatives (R) in 1971, and in 1976
he was elected to the first of three
terms in the United States Senate. Several years later, in 1991, he was
killed when his
plane collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia
suburb - the same helicopter that I
often used to travel between Philadelphia and Washington, DC. The senator,
his pilot and co-pilot, and
both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. He was survived by his wife,
Teresa, and their three young sons.
Four years later, after inheriting Heinz's $500 million fortune, she married
Senator John Forbes
Kerry, the liberal 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 pre- nuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may
not have check-writing
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, pickles,
and soup, has fallen into the hands of two people who despise successful
entrepreneurship 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
1995-2001she 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 numerousanti-war 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 Planned Parenthood, th National Abortion Rights
Action League, and the
Abortion Action Project. They support the most violent of all homosexual
action groups, ACT-UP. 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. I wish now that I'd had the good sense to
whisper in Senator Heinz's ear, "John!
Go home! Get a lawyer! Change your will!" But, of course, we didn't know her
then, did we