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To: Taro who wrote (263136)	12/3/2005 4:59:20 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1573716

"Didn't Kerry opt out of his 1st marriage when his wife fell seriously ill??" That was Newt. Now there was a little flap when Ryan had to withdraw over his taking Jerri to sex clubs, that the sealed records of Kerry's divorce needs to be unsealed also. Alas, it took about a week before a reporter actually made the call and actually tried to get the records instead of reporting on the chase and speculating what was being kept secret, and found out that only the financial records were sealed...

To: Taro who wrote (263136)	12/3/2005 5:01:07 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573716

No, Kerry did not opt out of his first marriage "when his ex-wife fell ill". Nor did she ever support him. He worked for a living, always has. She did have emotional problems, but that is very common.

To: Taro who wrote (263136)	12/3/2005 7:09:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573716

Ex-wife: Newt knew I was ailing By BRIAN BLOMQUIST mult-sclerosis.org WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich won't be winning the Mr. Sensitivity Award any time soon. The former House Speaker and his ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, are in a bit of a dispute over whether Newt knew that she might have multiple sclerosis when he told her on Mother's Day 1999 that he wanted a divorce. For the ham-handed Newtster, breakups are a touchy issue. He notified his first wife, Jackie Battley, that he was divorcing her in 1981 after she was hospitalized with cancer. Marianne's lawyer said Newt knew in September 1998 - eight months before he notified her that he was ditching her - that Marianne had been diagnosed with a neurological condition that might be a "forerunner of multiple sclerosis," according to the Atlanta neurosurgeon who treated her. But Newt's lawyer, Randy Evans, said yesterday Newt didn't know that Marianne might have had MS when he broke the bad news to her. Evans said he and Newt learned later - sometime during the divorce case that started in May 1999 and ended in April 2000 - about Marianne's condition. "His nose is growing," responded Marianne's lawyer and friend, Victoria Toensing. When Evans was told that Marianne's account differed from his, he said, "That's not my recollection." But then Evans backtracked and said it was possible that Newt and Marianne discussed her medical situation privately before he learned about it during the divorce case. Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative neurological disease. Newt, 57, told Marianne, 48, he wanted to end their 19-year marriage while she was visiting his mother on Mother's Day. Newt, 57, secretly had been having an affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek, 34, whom he plans to marry next month in Alexandria, Va. That would make the blond-haired Bisek wife No. 3 for the onetime Republican revolutionary. Toensing said there's no doubt that Newt knew all about his wife's condition at the time she went to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and was diagnosed with possible MS in September 1998, just before Newt announced he was giving up his job as speaker of the House and quitting Congress. Neurologist Barney Stern said she has responded well to steroid therapy and there's been no further damage to her nervous system.

To: Taro who wrote (263136)	12/3/2005 8:21:25 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573716

Didn't Kerry opt out of his 1st marriage when his wife fell seriously ill?? No, that was Newt Gingrich. You know, the big GOPer who was going to run for the presidency but he had this girlfriend and his wife had cancer which was a real inconvenience for him so he divorced her so he could be with his girlfriend. That's when Rove told Newt you better wait til after Bush is president.....that would give Americans time to get used to sleaze so that when Newt ran, we wouldn't even notice the slime dripping from his coat. I think that's the guy you were thinking of......I bet you like him a lot. ;`)