Pittsburgh Gazette oped praising Teresa at the time when her son, Andre becomes chair of the Heinz

[karynnj]

Foundation. (This was announced months ago. Teresa will stay on the board) It is long past time when Teresa Heinz Kerry is praised for all the good that she has done. The headline of the article was "Teresa Heinz, a force for good". A fantastic headline for a fantastic woman.

Back in 2004, when John Kerry was the Democratic Party nominee for president, his wife, Teresa Heinz, faced some difficult criticism. As chair of the board of The Heinz Endowments, she also got a lot of favorable press, of course, but a few in the mainstream media and virtually all of the right-wing bloggers went after her.
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But inconsistent? Never. Teresa has the strongest set of clearly articulated progressive values I have encountered, and she never went wobbly on them. I never once came away from a meeting or a phone call wondering where her ideas or perspectives came from. We all knew exactly where she stood.

Heaven knows, Teresa isn’t perfect. She and I had differences on some issues; and she could be brilliantly stubborn. But her values were deeply held, and she was unfailingly tough-minded when it came to getting the work done.

As Teresa prepares to step down in late October from the endowments’ chairmanship after nearly a quarter-century of service, she can take great pride in having made an exceptional difference to this community — guiding projects, programs and approaches that have transformed Pittsburgh.

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2016/10/02/Teresa-Heinz-a-force-for-good/stories/201610020030

It is incredibly sad that the mainstream media did go out of their way to give her negative press in 2004, ignoring the important work that she had done for years. (Yet somehow, for a long time they had no problem with Melania Trump. )

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