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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (14684)	4/14/2004 12:48:40 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

Kerry Won't Release Tax Info on Teresa's Treasure Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry vacations in multimillion-dollar mansions, owns a $700,000 yacht, rides exotic Italian motorcycles and helps finance it all with a millions in annual income from family investments in Heinz Foods. But Kerry's campaign won't release one iota of tax information on the jackpot that keeps him living in style, because he files his tax return separately from his wife, ketchup heiress Teresa "Don't Call Me Mrs. Kerry" Heinz. Of course, none of this bothers the partisan press, which blithely reported on Mr. Kerry's tax filing yesterday without noting that the bulk of his income comes from "separate" sources, and that tax info on the Kerry family's main cash stash will remain top secret. To hear the media tell it, the Massachusetts Democrat manages to get by on a relatively meager $395,338 annual salary, on which he paid $90,575 in taxes. But mum's the word on the tax status of America's first lady in waiting, Teresa Heinz, whose holdings approach three-quarters of a billion dollars. Is America entitled to know the taxable details of Teresa's treasure? You be the judge. When Kerry's campaign was headed down the toilet last December, suddenly the missus' income didn't sound so separate. Hubby John simply mortgaged "his half" of the Beacon Hill mansion she had purchased with her ketchup cash years before. Then there was the couples' vacation last month, which saw the candidate schussing down the slopes in Ketchum, Idaho, before retiring for the evening in Teresa's $5 million ski chalet. According to the Fox News Channel, Teresa's current holdings in the Heinz Foods Empire continue to net a pretty-penny - "up to $20 million" per year. Mr. Kerry's $150,000 Senate salary, is, by comparison, pocket change. So how much of their actual household income do Mr. and Mrs. Kerry fork over to the IRS? As far as the pro-Democrat press is concerned, the answer seems to be, don't ask, don't tell.

To: American Spirit who wrote (14684)	4/14/2004 12:49:30 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

Kerry's War Wound Called 'Fingernail Scrape' Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry insisted on being awarded his first Purple Heart in Vietnam even though his injury amounted to no more than a "fingernail scrape," his commanding officer at the time now says. Retired Lt. Cmdr. Grant Hibbard tells the Boston Globe that he can still recall Kerry's wound, and that "it resembled a scrape from a fingernail," the paper said. "I've had thorns from a rose that were worse," Hibbard insists. Still, the former Navy man remembered that Kerry insisted on receiving a Purple Heart for the wound he said was incurred during a Dec. 3, 1968 skirmish with Viet Cong near Cam Ranh Bay. "He had a little scratch on his forearm, and he was holding a piece of shrapnel," Hibbard told the Globe. "People in the office were saying, 'I don't think we got any fire,' and there is a guy holding a little piece of shrapnel in his palm." Much to Hibbard's chagrin, Kerry persisted in his quest for a war decoration for the scratch. "I finally said, 'OK, if that's what happened ... do whatever you want,'" Hibbard said. "After that, I don't know what happened. Obviously, he got it, I don't know how." Kerry's campaign refused to say whether he remains certain that his skimmer boat had come under fire or whether he recalls his superior officer raising doubts about whether he was entitled to the Purple Heart. While a Kerry aide provided a copy of a medical report showing treatment for the wound in question, The Naval Historical Center "could not locate a copy of the original card for the incident," the Globe said. Kerry was awarded two additional Purple Hearts for subsequent wounds that have also been described as minor. He then invoked a little-used regulation that entitled a triple Purple Heart winner to return to the United States. Former Sen. Max Cleland, a Kerry supporter who lost three limbs in Vietnam, was never awarded a Purple Heart.