Teresa Heinz Kerry

Another snag in the thorny maze of health care reform was brought forward by Teresa Heinz Kerry this week in her blog post at Women’s Voices For Change. Teresa has encouraged women’s financial independence for years so it is natural that she would bring the problem of long term care to the forefront. Daughters comprise 7 of 10 caretakers of their parents, usually without pay and at the expense of creating a financial security plan for themselves. While Teresa is right that this issue has been largely ignored, Ted Kennedy’s health care legislation out of the HELP committee does include a long term care ... Read Full Story

PITTSBURGH - September 15, 2009 - Celebrating the noble American ideal that individuals have the power and responsibility to change the world for the better, Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation today announced the recipients of the 15th annual Heinz Awards, which this year, focuses singularly on the environment. Read Full Story

The right just can’t get enough of whipping on Teresa Heinz Kerry. To hear their caterwauling, you would think she was another Granny D, ready to get out her walking stick and hoof it across the country in her Chanel espadrilles. Here’s this petite and graceful woman who barely speaks above a whisper, now deemed a raving anarchist to the ridiculous right; ridiculous because you certainly can’t call yourself rabid while you’re going after a seventy year old grandmother. The most recent hit on the “left-wing philanthropist” comes in a book called “Radical Gifts”, which follows the equally charming “57 Varieties of Radical Causes” ... Read Full Story

Teresa Heinz is being honored as the 2008 International Quality of Life Awards laureate at a special ceremony at the United Nations today. Auburn University has the award since 1994 when it was initiated in conjunction with the United Nations’ International Year of the Family. It recognizes individuals who make significant contributions to :individual, family and community well-being and quality of life locally and internationally:. Teresa is well known in liberal circles for her love of family and numerous programs she has championed to improve the health, safety and education of children and families. Teresa Heinz was also named one of the nation’s leading ... Read Full Story

March 27, 2009 By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com Here is the foreword to the new book and the full text available on Front Page Magazine Foreword Four years ago, I wrote the book-length expose 57 Varieties of Radical Causes: Teresa Heinz Kerry's Charitable Giving. At that time, Teresa Heinz had momentarily adopted her second husband's surname, delivered a rambling speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and would shortly come within a few hundred thousand votes of becoming the nation's First Lady. Read Full Story