{"id":1987,"date":"2004-04-17T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T00:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2004-04-17T17:35:01","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T00:35:01","slug":"taxing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the cutting room floor, ABC News, continued<\/a>:<\/p>\n

20\/20’s Barbara Walters:<\/b> “A fresh controversy surrounds your husband’s campaign, Teresa, but this time it involves you — and specifically, your refusal to release your tax returns to the press.”<\/p>\n

Teresa Heinz Kerry<\/b>: “Yes.”<\/p>\n

Barbara Walters<\/b>: “Your husband very publicly called for a full financial disclosure from President and Mrs. Bush, who have since complied. Does it worry you, then, that your <\/i>refusal to release your records — given all the speculation that your money is helping to finance your husband’s campaign — will make the Senator appear hypocritical?”<\/p>\n

Teresa Heinz Kerry<\/b>: “Well, firstly, I’m not running for public office, Barbara. So I honestly don’t see how my personal finances are anybody’s business but my own. John and I have a prenuptial agreement, and consequently, we have always filed our returns separately. This is nothing new.”<\/p>\n

Barbara Walters<\/b>: ” — and secondly?”<\/p>\n

Teresa Heinz Kerry<\/b>: ” — and secondly, there’s nothing I do can to make John look any more <\/i>hypocritical than he already looks. I mean, we’ve reached the point of diminishing return on that score, don’t you think? And besides, I really do <\/i>get off on being Johnny’s mysteriously wealthy Sugar Momma. I’m like a sassy Bond villianess. And, y’know, how bitchin’ is that<\/i>…?”
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From the cutting room floor, ABC News, continued: 20\/20’s Barbara Walters: “A fresh controversy surrounds your husband’s campaign, Teresa, but this time it involves you — and specifically, your refusal to release your tax returns to the press.” Teresa Heinz Kerry: “Yes.” Barbara Walters: “Your husband very publicly called for a full financial disclosure from President and Mrs. Bush, who have since complied. Does it worry you, then, that your<\/p>\n

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