Right zooms in on Heinz grants

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By Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Now that her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry, is locked into the Democratic presidential nomination, an assemblage of right-wing groups is gearing up to target Teresa Heinz Kerry, depicting her as a temperamental political spouse and financier of radical groups.

Some of the organizations, such as Citizens United and The Center for the Study of Popular Culture, previously took aim at former first lady and now Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Heinz Kerry, who inherited an estimated $700 million from her first husband, the late Sen. John Heinz, and who heads one Heinz family foundation and sits on the board of another, has faced increasing scrutiny from conservative groups. Her husband's emergence as the near-certain nominee now appears to have focused more attention on her.

"They've got to kill something that's strong," Heinz Kerry said of her critics. "What can I do? Nothing. I know who I am. My friends know who I am."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04067/281739.stm

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