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| Last Edited | User 13 Mar 07, 2004 09:33am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| News Date | Sunday, March 7, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Now that her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry, is locked into the Democratic presidential nomination, an assemblage of right-wing groups is gearing up to target Teresa Heinz Kerry, depicting her as a temperamental political spouse and financier of radical groups.
Some of the organizations, such as Citizens United and The Center for the Study of Popular Culture, previously took aim at former first lady and now Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Heinz Kerry, who inherited an estimated $700 million from her first husband, the late Sen. John Heinz, and who heads one Heinz family foundation and sits on the board of another, has faced increasing scrutiny from conservative groups. Her husband's emergence as the near-certain nominee now appears to have focused more attention on her.
"They've got to kill something that's strong," Heinz Kerry said of her critics. "What can I do? Nothing. I know who I am. My friends know who I am."
Some of the attacks are likely to come not from the campaign of President Bush, but groups on the fringes of the political campaign, where deeply personal attacks have become commonplace.
"I do believe she clearly will be an issue. Her and her financial resources and her corporate entities and donations -- all those things need to be looked at real closely," said David Bossie, a former congressional aide who now heads Citizens United, a conservative group that has kibitzed in presidential elections dating to 1988.
"We're looking at the entirety of John Kerry's life, and so clearly his money -- the means by which he was able to borrow $6.4 million for one of his homes, related to her, plays a part," Bossie said. Bossie was referring to a loan that kept Kerry's campaign afloat before he broke into front-runner status. Forbidden by federal election laws to tap into his wife's personal fortune, Kerry borrowed against a home he and his wife share in Boston.
Floyd Brown, who now works for the Young America's Foundation, suggested |
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