Teresa's nondisclosure. Liberals Are Morons!
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040726-090231-8443r.htm
How many faltering campaigns must Teresa Heinz Kerry underwrite for
husband John Kerry before voters are entitled to see her tax returns?
In 1996, the heiress, who married Mr. Kerry the year before, funneled
nearly $2 million in a loan to her husband's tightly fought Senate
re-election campaign. The last-minute cash infusion almost certainly
meant the difference in Mr. Kerry's narrow, 52 percent victory.
Late last year, when Mr. Kerry's faltering campaign was on
life-support after the party's donor base abandoned him en masse, Mrs.
Heinz Kerry's wealth rescued him again. The flight was so pronounced
that the Massachusetts Democrat raised less than $750,000 per month
during the fourth quarter, as Howard Dean raked in more than $30
million during the second half of 2003. In the face of the Dean
campaign roaring ahead on the eve of Iowa's caucuses and New
Hampshire's primary in January, Mr. Kerry needed to raise the most
money possible by mortgaging his half share of the Boston mansion he
jointly owned with his wife, whose liquid assets were used, according
to the New York Times, to purchase the house initially.
If Mr. Kerry wanted to capitalize on the decades-long relationship his
wife and the Heinz family had with the Pittsburgh-based Mellon Bank
financial conglomerate, he would naturally be drawn to Mellon's
local subsidiary, the Mellon Bank of New England. Last year, Boston's
Assessing Department placed a $6.6 million value on the Kerrys' Beacon
Hill townhouse. Mortgaging half of it at that assessment would have
yielded only $3.3 million for Mr. Kerry's desperate campaign, or less
than two-thirds what the front-running Mr. Dean easily raised each
month. Fortunately for Mr. Kerry, Mellon Bank nearly doubled the
house's assessed value to $12.8 million. That enabled the financially
desperate Mr. Kerry to extract a $6.4 million mortgage from the house
his wife purchased. It would be enough to help him through the New
Hampshire primary a month later, after which his momentum in the
Democratic primaries was unstoppable.
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