Well, No Surprise Here....

[Aught Six]

Can't say I didn't see that coming. I'm still thinking about how fortunate we were to avoid her as first b..., I mean first lady.

Teresa Heinz drops 'Kerry'

Compiled by Tribune-Review staff
Sunday, February 6, 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.

We suppose this means the Kerrys (er, make that Heinz and Kerry) will have to get their checks reprinted, but it's an expense they probably can afford.

[Alsatian]

It wasn't like Teresa Heinz adding that "-Kerry" onto her last name earned her husband any additional votes, I don't think. I wonder what the "strategery" was there?

[CalHunter]

Maybe she doesn't want a loser last name???[8D]

[badshotbob]

I wonder how much she made for having that name in tow for the duration of the campaign.

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[logs]

Even a hyphenated last name has more family or moderate acceptance than not taking your kept mans name at all.
Now that he is a certified loser, she goes back to the norm

[DougMD]

He can't say anything about the name change back to Heintz, for fear she'd go NUCULAR on him! She seems to me to be a bitter whacko that did more to hurt his campaign than to help.