MIAMI - Complimented on her choice of a husband, Teresa Heinz Kerry said Tuesday she married well — "both times." The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry made the comments during a three-day campaign trip through Florida in which she praised her husband's economic proposals, including an increase in the federal minimum wage to $7 an hour by 2007.
Heinz Kerry, the heir to the $500 million Heinz fortune, said her work on charitable causes in her home town of Pittsburgh helped her gain insight to economic development issues. Her first husband, Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., died in a 1991 plane crash. Among those in attendance was former Rep. Carrie Meek, mother of current Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., who complimented Heinz Kerry on her life decisions.
"I'd just like to say to you — you married well," Meek said. Heinz Kerry married the Massachusetts senator in 1995.
"Both times," Heinz Kerry responded to chuckles. "Both times."
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