Saturday, March 11, 2006

The Teresa Heinz Kerry name watch

Here’s a news blurb to remember from February 2005:

A campaign convenience is no more.

According to The Washington Times, Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, last year's Democrat presidential nominee.

Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references.

"I just checked and she no longer uses her (entire) last name; only during the (presidential) campaign did she use Kerry," campaign spokeswoman Tamara Rodriguez Reichberg said.
But according to the Boston Globe, John Kerry is considering another run for the presidency in 2008. That means at some point over the next year, Teresa Heinz will magically morph back into Teresa Heinz Kerry. That’s when you know that Kerry is going to run again. Watch for it.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's a good catch, even though Kerry has no hope of reporting for duty anywhere outside the Bay State.

However, doesn't the name change ruse say a whole lot more about the flatheaded mentality of the electorate than it does about Teresa Heinz-Period?