Teresa Heinz Kerry expresses disgust at Republican Party [View All]

Teresa Heinz Kerry expresses disgust at Republican Party

FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040616/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_kerry_heinz&cid=1506&ncid=2043
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Teresa Heinz Kerry, the multi-millionaire wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites), expressed disgust at some of the Republican Party's political tactics in a television interview.

Heinz told CBS News she was "very upset" at Republicans for describing former Democratic senator Max Cleland of Georgia as unpatriotic during the 2002 congressional election, which he lost. Cleland lost three limbs while fighting in the Vietnam war.

"I thought it was disgusting," said Heinz Kerry, a former Republican who switched parties last year.

"All I could think was, 'What does the Republican Party need -- a fourth limb to make a person a hero?' And this coming from people who have not served. I was really offended by that. Unscrupulous and disgusting," she told CBS.

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