CATSUP, PICKLES AND THE RADICAL LEFT
>by Paul R. Hollrah
>
>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 as a REPUBLICAN in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three
>terms in the United States Senate.
>
>
>Senator H. John Heinz was a friend of mine - not a close friend, not a
>golfing buddy, but a friend nonetheless. The last time I saw him alive was,
>oddly enough, in the men's restroom at the Maverick Steakhouse, a favorite
>nighttime eatery and watering hole for politicians and lobbyists in
>Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
>
>The senator was standing at a wash basin, drying his hands, when I entered
>the room. When he turned and saw me he rushed toward me, threw his arms
>around me, and said, "Paul, it's good to see you!" All I could do was
>mumble, "Senator, do you really think we should be seen hugging each other
>in a men's restroom?" He didn't think so, and neither did I, but we shared a
>good
>laugh over his impromptu display of affection.
>
>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 1995-2001 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?
>
>It supports numerous anti-war groups, including Ramsey Clark's International
>Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.
>
>It supports 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.
>
>It supports 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.
>
>It supports Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League,
>and the Abortion Action Project.
>
>It supports the most violent of all homosexual action groups, ACT-UP.
>
>It supports 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.
>
>As I recall that somewhat embarrassing chance meeting in the men's restroom
>at the Maverick Steakhouse in Harrisburg, instead of mumbling some inane
>nonsense about getting caught in a friendly embrace, I wish now that I'd had
>the good sense
>to whisper in his ear, "John! Go home! Get a lawyer! Change your will!"
>
>But, of course, we didn't know her then, did we?
>by Paul R. Hollrah
>
>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 as a REPUBLICAN in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three
>terms in the United States Senate.
>
>
>Senator H. John Heinz was a friend of mine - not a close friend, not a
>golfing buddy, but a friend nonetheless. The last time I saw him alive was,
>oddly enough, in the men's restroom at the Maverick Steakhouse, a favorite
>nighttime eatery and watering hole for politicians and lobbyists in
>Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
>
>The senator was standing at a wash basin, drying his hands, when I entered
>the room. When he turned and saw me he rushed toward me, threw his arms
>around me, and said, "Paul, it's good to see you!" All I could do was
>mumble, "Senator, do you really think we should be seen hugging each other
>in a men's restroom?" He didn't think so, and neither did I, but we shared a
>good
>laugh over his impromptu display of affection.
>
>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 1995-2001 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?
>
>It supports numerous anti-war groups, including Ramsey Clark's International
>Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.
>
>It supports 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.
>
>It supports 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.
>
>It supports Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League,
>and the Abortion Action Project.
>
>It supports the most violent of all homosexual action groups, ACT-UP.
>
>It supports 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.
>
>As I recall that somewhat embarrassing chance meeting in the men's restroom
>at the Maverick Steakhouse in Harrisburg, instead of mumbling some inane
>nonsense about getting caught in a friendly embrace, I wish now that I'd had
>the good sense
>to whisper in his ear, "John! Go home! Get a lawyer! Change your will!"
>
>But, of course, we didn't know her then, did we?
