Claim:   Teresa Heinz Kerry donates millions of dollars to fringe political groups through the Tides Foundation.

Status:   False.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/tides.asp
 
 
THouston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 
Subject: Mrs. Kerry?

Following is a brief back round on Mrs. John Kerry . She hates being

called that, by the way:

 

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married Senator

Kerry in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an

"interesting" paradox of conflicts.

 

  If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to his

wife! Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in

Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, 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 US

House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the

first of three terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he

wrote a burning diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House

member John Kerry.)

 

  Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane

collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb.

The senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots

were killed. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young

sons.

 

Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune,

she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-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 Kerryto

sign a prenuptial 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, mustard, and pickles 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?

 

They support numerous antiwar 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 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.

 

Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardlessof

your political views.

If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the

real Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra

rich fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine

her laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the

President of the United States.

 

Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only

way these two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an

engraved invitation in hand.

 

Instead of deleting this, pass it on. Let everyone know these

people may be unfit to represent this great nation. The uninformed will

never hear the truth from the press, who want Kerry elected!

Those who buy the Kerry facade, beware of what you vote for - - - you

may regret what you get!

 

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