Teresa :: once asked by Repubs to take Sen. Heinz seat?

[discopants]

I remember a story from the Dem convention that when Teresa's husband was killed, prominent republican Senators asked her to take his Senate seat. Is this true? Anyone have a link, know who these senators were? Teresa is getting trashed over and over, mostly due to Drudge. I've had arguments with several Teresa-bashers, they even deny all the pages of info about her on JK website. I mentioned this and was called a liar.... so help me please.!!!!

[deadparrot]

1. here you go

"The Republican party urged her to take up her late husband's Senate seat, but she declined in order to focus on charity work, backing causes from the environment to education, the arts, and women's and children's rights."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3932349.stm

[discopants]

2. more specifics needed!

I want names of Senators! I need at least an article with more info on this!

[liberal_in_GA]

3. from the Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0727/p01s01-uspo.html


It was her late husband who first introduced Teresa to Kerry at an Earth Day event in 1990. When Senator Heinz was killed in an airplane crash in 1991, many Pennsylvania Republicans urged Teresa to take her husband's seat. But she declined, instead taking charge of the family's philanthropic empire. She married Kerry in 1995, after the two met again at an environmental summit in Brazil.


There's also a piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a few others. Do a google search for "husband's seat" and Heinz."