Carlos Watson: Kerry's inner circle lacks color
Walking the walk
While Democrats have long claimed to be the party of greater
inclusiveness, this year President Bush may argue that his
administration is more diverse at senior levels than John Kerry's would
be.
Seizing on the nation's diversity -- the country is almost one-third
non-white -- Bush has appointed African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and
women to senior and non-stereotypical roles: Secretary of State,
national security adviser, Transportation Secretary, White House
Counsel.
Unlike Al Gore whose campaign manager, political director and finance
director were African-American, the Kerry campaign, as of yet, has no
one of color in the innermost circle, including Kerry's campaign
manager, campaign chairperson, media adviser, policy director, foreign
policy adviser, general election manager, convention planner, national
finance chairman, and head of VP search team.
That's an odd position for a campaign that will probably rely on
African-Americans and Hispanics for one in four of their general
election votes and the crucial margin of difference in battleground
states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.
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Despite these facts, if Kerry's inner leadership circle remains the
same, do not be surprised if Bush points out the inconsistency, a more
effective issue than many Democrats can imagine. Indeed, RNC Chair Ed
Gillespie has set the ambitious goal of securing 25 percent of the black
vote in 2004. While that sounds crazy to many Democratic insiders,
shining a light on Kerry's lack of diversity may be one way to get
there.
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Bush Administration = Most Diverse + Most Qualified
* National Security Advisor Dr. Condaleezza Rice
* White House Counsel (and former Texas Supreme Court Justice) Alberto
R. Gonzales
* U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman
* U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
* U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton
* U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell (and former Chair of U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff)
* U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige
* U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
* U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta
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How many Black & Latino migrants died picking pesticide pickles to buy
Mrs. John Heinz Kerry her $50 million Gulfstream V jet?
Mrs. John Heinz Kerry Bought Her $50 Million Jet Off The Backs Of Blacks
& Hispanics picking pesticide pickles & toxic tomatoes
How Mrs. Heinz-Kerry, the billionairess & wife of John "Fucking Liar"
Kerry, paid for her 7 mansions, army of servants and $50 million
Gulfstream V jet.
Her money was made off the backs of poor Black and Latino migrants who
worked endless hours in the hot sun for pennies a day and who also
picked pesticide pickles, toxic tomatoes and other funky food products
for Mrs. Heinz-Kerry's wealth. These people also got sick and some died
from picking pickles and tomatoes exposed to pesticides.
Here is a picture of a Gulfstream V -- retail cost about $50 million --
that Mrs. Heinz-Kerry bought off the backs of poor Black and Hispanic
migrant workers.
http://koti.welho.com/msolanak/gulfstreamv.jpg
More on how Mrs. Heinz-Kerry is worth $3 billion and how she "made" her
money off the back of poor Black & Latino migrant workers.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_1_118/ai_69404487
Washington, DC -- Food and Drug Administration Chairman Dr. Farnsley H.
Higginbottom today strongly denied accusations that politics played a
role in the recent total ban on all food products made by the Heinz
Corporation.
"The FDA is concerned only with objective scientific data," said Dr.
Higginbottom at a hastily called press conference. "The fact that the
Heinz Corporation is owned by the wife of the socialist
tax-and-spend-liberal traitor Democrat candidate for the presidency who
is opposing the God-fearing righteous heroic family-values-oriented
George W. Bush played absolutely no role in our conclusion that one
Heinz dill pickle contains more fecal matter than a good-sized cow chip.
Or that the underage migrant workers held in virtual slavery by the
Heinz Corporation regularly urinate on the tomatoes that are used in
Heinz ketchup, which incidentally is chock full of the highly
carcinogenic red dye No. 2."
In related news, Democrat presidential candidate John F. Kerry announced
today that he and his wife, Patricia Heinz Kerry, have filed for divorce
due to irreconcilable financial differences. Campaign spokesmen say that
this will in no way endanger Senator Kerry's "family values" platform
because he intends to remarry a much wealthier woman as soon as FBI
background checks have been concluded.
Mrs. Heinz-Kerry also refuses to release her tax returns because it is
estimated she is worth $3 billion. Money made off the backs of poor
Blacks & Latinos. Her family also came from Africa where they lived in a
repressive country that maintained Black slavery in one form or another
until the 1970s.
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$$$Millions for Abortion Funds = Teresa Heinz Kerry
Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 13, 2004
With Matt Drudge's recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to
his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam "brothers," the senator's
presidential campaign may depend more than everon the actions of his
wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. While the mainstream media has thus far
overlooked the alleged infidelity, media outlets have also overlooked a
far more important story: The former Mrs. John Heinz is also in bed --
financially -- with the radical Left.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the
tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a
"charity" established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike,
distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political
organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its
closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in
1996 but run by Drummond Pike, distributed nearly $66 million in grants
in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for
the Left. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade
demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal
groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual
activists and open borders advocates.
During the years 1995-2001, the Howard Heinz Endowment, which Heinz
Kerry chairs, gave Tides more than $4.3 million. The combined Heinz
Endowments (composed of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz
Endowment) donated $1.6 million to establish the Tides Center for
Western Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh office of the San Francisco-based
Tides Center. Since that time, the local branch has tirelessly pushed an
anti-business agenda in the name of "preserving the environment."
However, it is the Tides Foundation's national organization whose
connections are most disconcerting.
The Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most
extreme groups on the Left. Tides allows donors to anonymously
contribute money to a host of causes; the donor simply makes the check
out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money.
Tides does so. The Tides Center will even manage a left-wing project,
for a nominal fee. Drummond Pike told The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
"Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with." That
becomes understandable when one views the list of Tides grant
recipients. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?
The Antiwar Movement
Senator John F. Kerry has gone far with his nuanced view of Operation
Iraqi Freedom. He voted for the war resolution but specified a litany of
conditions the Bush administration must meet before hewould support
combat, then proceeded to vote against funding troops already in harm's
way -- then claimed he had always supported the president when Saddam
Hussein was captured. The grant recipients of the Tides Foundation, to
which Kerry's wife has steered millions of dollars in "charitable"
funds, understand no such nuance.
Tides established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund to
fund the antiwar movement. These projectsfueled such hysterical protest
organizations as MoveOn.org, the website that recently featured two
separate commercials portraying George W. Bush as Adolf Hitler. (Howard
Dean, not Kerry, won MoveOn.org's "virtual primary.")
The antiwar movement often boasted that MoveOn.org and the radical
website Indymedia provided them "alternate media coverage." Indymedia,
an enormous news and events bulletin board with local pages in most of
the world's major cities, provided a vital link for radical activists
often with violent agendas to coordinate their protests. Indymedia
received $376,000 from the Tides Foundation.
The Institute for Global Communications is another leftist
communications facilitator that received Tides grant money. IGC, which
during the 1990s was the leading provider of web technology to the
radical Left, links to "recommended sites" such as the War Resisters
League (a group whose purpose is enabling peaceniks to refuse to pay
taxes) and the leftist American Friends Service Committee. Most
disturbing is the link to Ramsey Clark's International Action Center,
which has supported Slobodan Milosevic and North Korean strongman Kim
Jong-Il. The IAC is the force behind International ANSWER, which
sponsored the major antiwar (and anti-Bush) rallies before the invasion
of Iraq.When ANSWER was outed as aCommunist organization, United for
Peace and Justice, headed by longtime Communist Party member Leslie
Cagan was created as a "moderate" alternative. UFPJ is also a Tides
grant recipient.The Tides-funded "A Better Way Project," which opposed
war in Iraq, also coordinated efforts of United for Peace and Justice
and the Win Without War Coalition. The celebrity-laden Win Without War
Coalition, along with the Bill Moyers-funded Florence and John Schumann
Foundation, ran full-page ads in the New York Times opposing the War on
Terrorism. This will not be the last overlapping of far-Left causes.
The Islamist Front
Immediately after 9/11, Tides formed a "9/11 Fund" to advocate a
"peaceful national response" to the opening salvos of war. Part of the
half-million dollars in grants the 9/11 Fund dispersed went to the New
York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project to protect the rights of
homosexual Arabs. The Foundation replaced the 9/11 Fund with the
"Democratic Justice Fund," which was established with the aid of George
Soros' Open Society Institute. (Currency speculator and pro-drug
advocate Soros is, like Teresa Heinz Kerry, a major contributor to
Tides, having donated more than $7 million.) The Democratic Justice Fund
seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States,
particularly from countries designated by the State Department as
"terrorist nations."
Tides has also given grant money to the Council for American Islamic
Relations.Ostensibly a "Muslim civil rights group," CAIR is in fact one
of the leading anti-anti-terrorism organizations within the Wahhabi
Lobby, with links to Hamas. CAIR regularly opposes and demonizes
American efforts to fight terrorism, claiming, for instance, that
Homeland Security measures are responsible for an undocumented surge in
"hate crimes."
CAIR officials have reason to fight Bush's anti-terrorism measures: all
too many CAIR officials are on the record supporting terrorism. CAIR
Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, "I am a supporter
of the Hamas movement." Community Affairs Director Bassem K. Khafagi has
been arrested for visa and bank fraud. Randall Royer, a Communications
Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR, was arrested along with
a group of Islamic radicals in Virginia for allegedly planning jihad.
CAIR has defended terrorist "charities" shut down by the Bush
administration. Every few months some CAIR campus official is arrested
for aiding and abetting terrorism.
The Legal Matrix
The Tides Foundation has funded a number of the pillars of the radical
legal establishment. Chief among these is the National Lawyers Guild,
which began as a Commnist front organizationand is proud of its lineage.
At its recent convention last October, the concluding speaker was Lynne
Stewart, an indictedterroristNLG lawyer arrested for helping her client
-- convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar
Abdel Rahman -- communicate with his terrorist cells in Egypt. In her
speech, Stewart said she and her NLG comrades were carrying on a proud
tradition of their forebears, past and present:
And modern heroes, dare I mention? Ho and Mao and Lenin, Fidel and
Nelson Mandela and John Brown, Che Guevara who reminds us, "At the risk
of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided
by a great feeling of love." Our quests like theirs are to shake the
very foundations of the continents.
More recently, the NLG has endorsed the March 20 call to End Colonial
Occupation from Iraq to Palestine and Everywhere" organized by
International ANSWER, and has posted a petition for "Post-Conviction
Relief" for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Tides' Peace Strategies Fund has funneled money to the Center for
Constitutional Rights. The CCR was stablished by Sixties radical William
Kunstler, defender of the Chicago 8, and Arthur Kinoy. The two also had
plans to establish a new Communist Party. Executive Director Ron Daniels
has been honored by the Communist Party USA for his work. Daniels also
has a long and cordial relationship with racist, anti-Semitic "poet
laureate" Amiri Baraka. Since 9/11, CCR has channeled its efforts into
fighting every effective Homeland Security measure. They have opposed
increasing the government's ability to wiretap Islamists suspected of
plotting terrorism and moaned the sequestering of terrorist detainees at
Guantanamo Bay was an unexcusable form of "racial profiling." CCR
President Michael Ratner has portrayed American soldiers as the
offenders, guilty of 9/11 by their Middle East policy and guilty of
keeping Islamist killers "shackled, hooded and sedated during the 25
hour flight from Afghanistan." CCR has also defended Lynne Stewart's
"innocence" in aiding Sheikh Rahman's Islamic Jihad.
Tides also funds the Alliance for Justice, a group dedicated to stopping
Bush judicial appointees (a cause John Kerry can agree wholeheartedly
endorse). Other Tides grants have gone to the Lawyers Committee for
Civil Rights and the Asian Law Caucus.
Environmental Extremism
The Tides Foundation has funded the Ruckus Society, a group ofanarchist
Greens who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade
Organization riots. The Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania,
established in Pittsburgh with Heinz Family funds, advocates for
environmentalist measures that have helped put holes in the Rust Belt's
economy.
Tides money has also squashed free speech. Thanks to complaintsgenerated
bythe Tides-funded Environmental Working Group, ABC cancelled a John
Stossel piece exposing the misleading nature of environmental advocacy
in public elementary schools.
Greenpeace is a well-known Tides grant recipient. Greenpeace is best
known for its illegal actions,endangering humans in order to make a
point about theenvironment. Tides gave Greenpeacea quarter of a million
dollars over ten years.
Lest one think only Tides' money is going to radicals, not funds
directly controlled by Teresa Heinz Kerry, remember that Heinz money has
repeatedly found its way to the Earth Island Institute. On September 14,
2001, the Institute's website bore the headline "U.S. Responds to
Terrorist Attacks with Self-Righteous Arrogance."
Heinz family philanthropic funds have also had some dubious effects on
the presidential race. The League of Conservation Voters has recently
endorsed John Kerry's presidential campaign. The Heinz Family Foundation
gave LCV at least $20,000 and donated almost $250,000 to a member of the
LCV board.
Perhaps this circular rotation of cash and endorsements should not
surprise anyone. The grant-making institutions of the Left and their
feverish recipientsultimately forman amorphous, leftist entity. One
never needs to search very far to find connections between a leftist
foundation andextreme advocacy groups. Teresa Heinz Kerry, George Soros,
Bill Moyersand the Ford Foundation fund the Tides Foundation/Center;
Tides funds the National Lawyers Guild, CAIR, MoveOn.organd United for
Peace and Justice; those organizations then unite in fluid coalitions to
protest against their common political enemies (Republicans).
Ultimately, their representativesend up on Bill Moyers' PBS programs or
active within the Democratic campaigns of their fundraisers. Between now
and the election, these organizations will run constant interference for
the Democratic presidential nominee (presumably Kerry himself): they
will march en masse against the Bush administration again and again;
they will file more lawsuits against the administration's Homeland
Security measures, decry any effective response to terrorism, claim the
United States is guilty of slaughtering Iraqi civilians and petition
leftist judges to open America's borders to Islamist terrorists. After
they help his election, President Kerry will be indebted to them. And
then they will insist he begin implementing their political agenda.
Moreover, they will have a close ally in the East Wing of the White
House, an ally more intimatelytiedto them than she isto her (second)
husband. (She only adopted his last name and political party
registration less than 18 months ago. "Politically, it's going to be
Heinz Kerry," she recently said. "But I don't give a sh-t, you know?")
Teresa Heinz Kerry will play a potent role in saving her second
husband's presidential campaign now -- as Hillary Clinton did in 1992,
and again during her husband's impeachment. Like Hillary, in return for
her service, Heinz may demand a place at the table for her pet causes.
Caveat emptor.
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Kerry Voting Record More Liberal Than Perfect ***** Kennedy
See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079904/posts
"Ted Kennedy I don't trust either. He's the perfect *****."
-- Mrs. Theresa "Flip-flopper" Heinz Kerry
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