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Politics : The American Spirit Vs. The Rightwing
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (660)9/14/2004 9:44:35 PM
From: Doug R   of 1904
 
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! You lose PRODEATH..American Enterprise Institute has zero ammunition. What pathetic whining.

Their attempt at a smear is already officially categorized as an urban legend:

Kerry has no say in H.J. Heinz & Co.
Neither does his wife.

In fact...while it is accurate to say that the H.J. Heinz Company operates factories outside the United States, it is not true that Teresa Heinz Kerry — much less her husband, John Kerry — owns that business or has any say in, or culpability for, its operations. Therefore, the conclusion that Kerry is a hypocrite for decrying corporate outsourcing is based on false premises.

It's a baseless smear, in other words.

In a statement released on March 22, 2004, the H.J. Heinz Company affirmed the following:

Neither Mrs. Heinz Kerry nor Senator Kerry nor any of the Heinz trusts or endowments — either individually or collectively — holds a significant percentage of shares of the H. J. Heinz Company. In 1995 the Heinz Endowments and family trusts sold a large percentage of Heinz shares in a secondary share offering to diversify their holdings. As a result, their current holdings are under 4 percent.
Incidentally, the implication that H.J. Heinz has "relocated" U.S. factories abroad is equally fallacious. Like other food manufacturers who sell perishable products worldwide, from the outset Heinz has maintained local factories in various parts of the world to minimize the gap between production and consumption — hardly the textbook definition of "outsourcing."

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