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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 01:42 PM
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Snopes smacks down the Kerry/Heinz "ownership" BS
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/heinz.asp

Claim: Senator John Kerry's wife owns Heinz, a company that outsources much of its work abroad.

Status: False
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 01:58 PM
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1. Boy, people are dumb when it comes to business...
When I lived in Pittsburgh in the '70s and '80s, John Heinz was a Republican senator, while Heinz, the company, was run by its CEO, Sir Tony O'Reilly, now an Irish media baron. Kerry's wife never even came CLOSE to "owning" Heinz Co. When her husband the senator died, his fortune, which had been established in the mid-19th-century by H.J. Heinz, went to her. Plain and simple.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 01:59 PM
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2. I don't understand why she retains the Heinz surname.
It seems that she would want to return to the use of her maiden name or her actual middle name, now that she is remarried.
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