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To: Poet who wrote (565228)	4/15/2004 6:49:16 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Looks like mr. heinz cannot find a person of color he trusts. Well that is just so democrat of him. Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:00 p.m. EDT Whites Only in Kerry's Inner Circle His wife, Teresa Heinz, used to call herself an "African American," but when it comes to hiring top staff for his presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry apparently prefers white folks. CNN's Carlos Watson reports today: "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." Kerry's all-white staff is likely to make for some uncomfortable comparisons with the Bush administration, notes Watson, which has appointed African-Americans to the key positions of secretary of state and national security adviser. NewsMax.com's repeated calls to the Kerry campaign last December, inquiring about whether he had any minorities in senior campaign positions, were never returned. In a primary debate earlier this year, former Democratic front-runner Howard Dean was humiliated when the Rev. Al Sharpton forced him to admit he had no African-Americans in his inner circle. CNN notes that Kerry does have one black in his campaign, as deputy campaign manager. In a 1993 interview with the Los Angeles Sentinel, a spokesman for Teresa Heinz Kerry defended her decision to refer to herself as African American, insisting that even her black friends referred to her that way. Heinz Kerry spokesman Grant Oliphant did not, however, identify any of the Kerrys' black friends. The Mozambican-born Heinz Kerry has boasted that she marched against apartheid while attending college in South Africa. newsmax.com