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29 unusual facts about John Kerry


Bob Schieffer

On October 13, 2004, he was the moderator of the third presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry in Tempe, Arizona.

Cybercast News Service

The Washington Post and Nancy Pelosi have commented that this approach is similar to the tactics of the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, which opposed John Kerry's candidacy in the 2004 election.

Disarm Bush T-Shirts

Disarm Bush T-Shirts is a for-profit political activism campaign created in 2004 in the run-up to the American Presidential election, in which the incumbent George W. Bush ultimately defeated challenger John Kerry.

Embassy of the United States, London

Matthew Barzun was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James's on August 15, 2013, by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Essex County, Vermont

In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Essex County was the only county in Vermont to vote for George W. Bush, by 10.7% over John Kerry, who won statewide by a 20.1% advantage.

Gideon Yago

Throughout his career Yago has interviewed many politicians, musicians, and other celebrities including former President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, Senator John Kerry, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Vice President Al Gore, and Senator John McCain, as well as other prominent figures including former Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III and Bill Gates.

HorizonsCompanies

In 2004, Horizons Companies' camera crews were called upon to help document the Ohio campaign activities of presidential candidates John Kerry and George W. Bush for a feature film documentary entitled ...So Goes the Nation .

In Your Honor

The lyrics dealt with both resonating and introspective themes, with a major influence from Grohl's involvement on the campaign trail with John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election.

Inez Dickens

In the 2004 presidential election, she served as one of New York's 33 presidential electors, casting her ballot for John Kerry.

Jack D. Maltester

The resolution was adopted by the body of mayors after vigorous debate that included speeches by conference guest speakers John Kerry and John O'Neill.

Jack Meets Dennis

Later, during a sketch rehearsal—involving impersonations of Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush, and John Kerry—the various mishaps of Tracy, Jenna, and Josh prompt Liz and Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) that it would be impossible for the three to perform on the show.

Janel Moloney

During the 2004 U.S. Presidential campaign, Moloney was an active supporter of John Kerry's presidential campaign and made public appearances on its behalf.

John Murray Forbes

His cousin Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839-1908) is the great-grandfather of 2004 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry.

Malaysia–United States relations

On 21st October 2013, The new American Secretary Of State, John Kerry visited Kuala Lumpur due to a conference held in the city.

Malcolm Mackerras

Mackerras said that John Kerry would defeat George W. Bush in a "landslide" in the U.S. presidential election the following day, and specifically predicted that Kerry would carry Florida, Ohio, Nevada and Missouri.

Margin of error

According to an October 2, 2004 survey by Newsweek, 47% of registered voters would vote for John Kerry/John Edwards if the election were held on that day, 45% would vote for George W. Bush/Dick Cheney, and 2% would vote for Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo.

Michael John Sheridan

Sheridan excited controversy in 2004 when he said any Catholic who does not reflect church teaching in the voting booth "makes a mockery of that faith and belies his identity as a Catholic," a remark widely held to refer to supporters of John Kerry, though the bishop stated "the church never directs citizens to vote for any specific candidate."

Military service of John Kerry

Three articles cover aspects of John Kerry's military service and related controversies.

Old Louisville

Old Louisville is one of the most liberal neighborhoods in Louisville, as evidenced by the General Election results in 2004, where it voted for John Kerry by a 60% margin and against a proposal to amend the state constitution to define marriage as "between one man and one woman" by a 66% margin (the proposal passed 75% to 25% in Kentucky).

Pebbles, Volume 21

The Electras are not the same early 1960s garage rock band that included John Kerry but may be the same band that also recorded a version of "Action Woman" (the original by the Litter is the opening cut on Pebbles, Volume 1).

Politics of Hawaii

In 2004, John Kerry won the state's 4 electoral votes by a margin of 9 percentage points with 54% of the vote.

Politics of Marshall, Texas

In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush won Harrison County with 16,456, to John Kerry's 9,637.

San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings

On the other hand, Newsom and San Francisco successfully upstaged the Massachusetts marriages that occurred two months later, which would have reflected even more strongly on the Democratic presidential candidate that year, John Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts.

Sorry Everybody

The first photo was taken by Zetlen of himself, in his home in Los Angeles on November 3, 2004, just after the concession of John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. presidential election (which had been held a day earlier, on November 2, 2004).

The Vines of Mendoza

Michael Evans, CEO & Founder- Prior, he worked on the John Kerry presidential campaign, was COO of the Rock The Vote campaign, and Executive Director of CTIA's Wireless Foundation.

William H. Van Schoonhoven

Julia Thorne (1944–2006), the first wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry, was a great-great-granddaughter of Phoebe Van Schoonhoven (1838–1923).

Williamson County, Tennessee

In the 2004 presidential election, Williamson County voted 72 percent in favor of George W. Bush, 27 percent in favor of Senator John Kerry, and 1 percent in favor of Ralph Nader.

Winning New Hampshire

Produced during the beginning of the 2004 Presidential election, the film highlights the importance of this one small New England state in determining the eventual nominees, as exemplified by John Kerry's unexpected political comeback against then frontrunner Howard Dean in 2004.

Filmmakers Aram Fischer, Mark Lynch and Will Rabbe tracked candidates Wesley Clark, Joseph Lieberman, John Edwards, Howard Dean and John Kerry as they campaigned vigorously throughout the state.


Alexandre Adler

Adler had predicted John Kerry's large victory over George Bush during the 2004 presidential election.

Fred Levin

Levin has also donated to the campaigns of former Florida Senator Bob Graham and presidential candidate John Kerry.

Joe Langworth

His partner is James Matthew Jones, a leading global public health consultant who served as press secretary to Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and as executive vice president of The Vaccine Fund, a multi-billion dollar charity founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Karen Hicks

Hicks has worked as Deputy National Field Director for the Democratic National Committee, including John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004, and for Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party of Britain (2005).

Kopspijkers

At first only Dutch people were impersonated, later also foreign celebrities (including Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, John Kerry and Viktor Yushchenko) were impersonated.

Mark Critch

He is most famous for his road pieces on the show, in which he has accosted celebrities such as John Kerry, Michael Douglas, Alec Baldwin, former Canadian Prime minister Paul Martin, Howard Dean, Avril Lavigne, Hillary Clinton and many more.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Records Collection Act

The bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Cynthia McKinney in 2002 and 2005; John Kerry brought it to the Senate in 2006, with Hillary Clinton as a co-signer.

Mike Barnicle

Tapping into a rich knowledge of local and national politics, Barnicle had unique takes on the ups and downs of luminaries such as Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. John Kerry, and longtime Congressional Speaker of the House Thomas Tip O'Neill, as well as Boston mayors Kevin White, Ray Flynn, and Tom Menino.

Mini-Tuesday

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

New England National Scenic Trail

Co-sponsors were the Democratic representatives Richard Neal (D-MA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT); a companion bill was introduced by Senator John Kerry.

North Andover, Massachusetts

Massachusetts' senior Senator is John Kerry (D), serving since 1985, and its junior Senator, elected 2012 is Elizabeth Warren (D).

Penny Pritzker

Among the recipients have been the presidential campaigns and exploratory committees, including those of George W. Bush, Joe Lieberman, Bill Bradley, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain (2000), Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.

Pete Perry

They interrupted Admiral Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as he spoke to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, US Senator John Kerry.

Regena Thomas

Thomas said she did any political work in her spare time and in 2004 she took a multimonth leave of absence to "recharge her batteries." Thomas also spent part of this leave working on the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

Richard Wolffe

In the 2004 presidential election, he covered the Howard Dean campaign before switching to John Kerry.

Roger Wolfson

Wolfson has also been staff to four U.S. Senators: Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Paul Wellstone, and Ted Kennedy.

Rosemary Forbes Kerry

She married Richard John Kerry, in Montgomery, Alabama on February 8, 1941, and was the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.

Stop Her Now

The major donors (62 percent) to this PAC are energy trader T. Boone Pickens, who funded the Swift Boat campaign in 2004 against John Kerry as well as the Progress for America Voter Fund PAC and the Straight Talk America PAC, with homebuilder Bob Perry, investor Harold Clark Simmons, and Richard Collins, a Dallas County, Texas newspaper publisher; totaling over $10 million.

Syrian American Council

SAC advocates the U.S. government including President Barack Obama, Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives through its Washington, D.C., office for statements and policy changes to support the Syrian revolution.

Thomas Shea

In 2004, he was the Florida campaign director for the Democratic national ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards.

William F. Schulz

From 1997 to 2005, Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz contributed a total of $9,450 to the campaigns of Democratic Party politicians Gary Ackerman, Geraldine Ferraro, Carolyn McCarthy, Steve Israel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward M. Kennedy, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Bill Nelson and Al Gore.