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Home Front: Politix
Heinz Seeks to Disavow Kerry Connection
2004-03-30
H.J. Heinz Co. has launched an election-year campaign of its own, this one to distance the ketchup maker from what is shaping up to be an acrimonious presidential race. The company has sent nearly 50 letters to radio and television talk shows nationwide to tamp down chatter on the airwaves and Internet suggesting revenue from ketchup sales will benefit the campaign of pending Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
I love it when a plan comes together.
His wife is Teresa Heinz Kerry, wacko lefty heiress to the $500 million family ketchup fortune. The company has received about 150 calls this month from consumers vowing to boycott Heinz products, or in some instances to buy more, said company spokeswoman Debbie Foster.
Oh, I bet the boycott is in the majority, otherwise they wouldn't do anything.
Heinz Kerry, who was married to Republican Senator H. John Heinz III when he was killed in a 1991 plane crash, is not on Heinz's board and is in no way involved with company management, Foster said.
She just rakes in money. Lots of it.
Collectively, Heinz Kerry, along with her children with John Heinz and The Heinz Endowments which she chairs, own less than 4 percent of outstanding company stock. The company has not seen any effect on sales.
Sure you haven't
But it took action after The Heinz Endowments was accused of funding Peaceful Tomorrows, a group for Sept. 11 victims' families that criticized President Bush's use of footage from the attacks in political ads.
And criticized pretty much everything about the WOT as well.
The Heinz Endowments President Maxwell King and David Potorti, co-director at Peaceful Tomorrows, have repeatedly denied any link. While many talk shows have since backed away from those claims, Internet chat rooms are still buzzing with calls for a Heinz boycott.
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Posted by:Steve

#12  Heinz Foundation to the media: Ignore the bag lady with the French looking dildo behind the curtain...
Posted by: badanov   2004-03-30 9:52:01 PM  

#11  Now that Heinz has made this move, it would be advantageous to push even harder about Heinz's funding of such leftist news outlets as NPR.

If they are really sincere about distancing themselves from leftist politics this would be a good place to start.
Posted by: badanov   2004-03-30 9:48:32 PM  

#10  Charles, you're not a refugee from the "Republican Underground", are yew? :-)
Posted by: Steve White   2004-03-30 9:36:22 PM  

#9  #2 The Kid: ROFL! Priceless.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-03-30 6:44:33 PM  

#8  I guess like biscuits and mustard all rightmmmmmmhhhmmmmmmm, you see, even slingblade BillyBob don't eat no heinz catsup
Posted by: wills   2004-03-30 6:30:24 PM  

#7  Ketchup Grrl uses her fortune, and the board positions it has afforded her, to fund socialist and communist organizations bent on dividing and destroying the United States of America.

..ketchup!...we don't need your steenking ketchup...

Of course with the true investigative reporting now being done today by the DNC's voice the NYT and it's searing desire to expose the truth, along with the Stepford sister networks lack of any coverage which even lets Kerry look less than a saint. This too will be washed under carpet. Thank God for Fox News.....
Posted by: Bill Nelson   2004-03-30 5:27:46 PM  

#6  who was married to Republican Senator H. John Heinz III when he was killed in a 1991 plane crash

A wacky liberal suddenly inherits the fortune of a Republican Senator through his untimely death in a plane crash? And then marries the most Liberal Senator in Washington?

Is anybody else getting a funny feeling about this?
Posted by: Charles   2004-03-30 5:09:08 PM  

#5  Perhaps Maxwell King sent those 50 letters to the wrong people. Instead of asking the radio and television talk shows to back off, he should have written a letter to Teresa African-American Heinz and John French Kerry and told the two of them to STFU.
Posted by: GK   2004-03-30 4:55:23 PM  

#4  Whether Skeery succeeds in becoming President or not, one thing is very clear: Ketchup Grrl uses her fortune, and the board positions it has afforded her, to fund socialist and communist organizations bent on dividing and destroying the United States of America. There have been sufficient links provided already to that effect here on RB and elsewhere, so I suggest this should have precisely zero effect on any decision to boycott Heinz products. I'm acquiring a taste for Hunt's, myself, and have sworn off everything with the Heinz label.
Posted by: .com   2004-03-30 3:23:20 PM  

#3  "It tells me that Kerry's in a pickle and we here are relishing it."

Yep, and things are going sour on him. Here's hoping they continue at least dill Bush wins again, preferably longer.
Posted by: Korora   2004-03-30 3:06:36 PM  

#2  It tells me that Kerry's in a pickle and we here are relishing it.
One look at recent polls should convince Kerry that he's in a game of ketchup right now.
Posted by: The Kid   2004-03-30 2:20:25 PM  

#1  Heinz doesn't want to be associated with Heinz-Kerry or Kerry. What does that tell you?
Posted by: Mike   2004-03-30 1:36:11 PM  

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