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John Kerry Rocked by Affair Claim

Senator Kerry: "I just deny it categorically"

Miss Polier: "The rumors are completely false"

Matt Drudge: 'oops'


BY JAKE EASTON
R A D O K  N E W S

Posted: Feb. 12, 2004 11:27am EST
Updated: Feb. 19, 2004 7:15pm EST

WASHINGTON DC — The presidential campaign of Democratic hopeful John Kerry is threatened by infidelity allegations.  The media flurry surrounds unconfirmed reports that Senator Kerry was recently involved in a two-year relationship with a young journalist - an allegation in which the Senator flatly denies.

Breaking her silence four days after the allegations surfaced on the Internet, Alexandra Polier issued a statement to the Associated Press on Monday, saying, "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false."

A statement releases by Terry and Donna Polier, the parents of Alexandra Polier: "We have spoken to our daughter and the allegations that have been made regarding her are completely false and unsubstantiated. We love and support her 100 percent and these unfounded rumors are hurtful to our entire family."

Even Matt Drudge had significantly backed off the allegations by Monday, saying that the woman at the center of the John Kerry intrigue actually had been dating longtime Kerry Finance Director Peter Maroney.

Media Madness

The Philadelphia Daily News reports that several news trucks and assorted gawkers have been loitering outside the Malvern, Pennsylvania home of the parents of 27-year-old Alexandra Polier after her dad was quoted in a British tabloid that Senator Kerry was "a sleazeball" who had shown an interest in his daughter.

Alexandra Polier, a tall blonde known to friends as Alex, went on from Malvern to Clark University in Worcester, Mass., where she earned a degree in 2000 with a double major in philosophy and government. She then studied journalism at the prestigious Columbia Journalism School in New York, and landed a job with the Associated Press, working for the New York bureau, according to the Daily News.

Her parent's home, located about 25 miles west of philadelphia, was reportedly hidden behind a media cadre that included dozens of local print and television media, a CNN camera crew‚ an NBC crew‚ a New York Times reporter and two reporters that are employed by an agency that works for the London SUN.

The major networks are biting at the bit to jump on the story, but are proceeding cautiously.  A source at one of the major television networks told Talon News that they are specifically forbidden to talk about this story on the air until one of the other major television networks reports on it first.

Center of The Storm

News of the alleged affair first surfaced online on Watchblog.com last week [February 6, 2004], where it was reported that TIME Magazine would be one of the early mainstream media to break the story.

The center of the storm revolves around a woman who allegedly fled the U.S. at the urging of Kerry, according to a Drudge Report story filed Thursday.  The woman is now said to be in Kenya, Eastern Africa with another man reportedly identified as Yaron Schwartzman.

In light of Kerry's substantial lead in the Democratic presidential nomination, Time Magazine, ABC News, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press are said to be investigating the woman's disappearance, and the nature of the relationship.

Reached for comment, AP spokesman Jack Stokes said, "We simply don't comment on stories we are pursuing or not pursuing."

Previous Allegations

Michael Sneed, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times stated she was told the real reason former Dem presidential nominee Al Gore did not select Kerry as his veepmate was because of allegations of women problems, or marital infidelity involving Kerry's marriage to Heinz, heiress to the HJ Heinz Ketchup fortune, whom he met in 1990.

"Kerry was the favorite to be Gore's veep, but they worried a female problem could erupt, so U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman was selected instead," said Sneed's source.

The top source also told Sneed that Al Gore was talking about Kerry's sexual baggage "with a young woman" as late as last week.

The Boston Herald's Inside Track reported on a National Enquirer investigation that a "22-year-old blonde was spotted around midnight 'dropping off her resume' at Kerry's Louisburg Square home while wife Teresa Heinz was in Nantucket."

Wesley Clark Throws Fuel on the Fire

Despite his recent endorsement of Kerry, in an off-the-record conversation with a dozen reporters earlier this week, General Wesley Clark allegedly stated: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue," according to a Drudge story released Thursday.

In a subsequent Boston Globe report, Thomas Oliphant confirms the story saying, "Clark actually said he was still in the race because he thought Kerry's campaign was going to implode over what he inelegantly called an 'intern' scandal."

Talon News is also reporting that Craig Crawford of the Congressional Quarterly said that Chris Lahane, Clark's press secretary and a previous adviser to former Vice President Al Gore, has known about the Kerry affair story for a while and "has shopped around for a long time" to find someone to publish it.

Sources told the Drudge Report - who previously broke the story on Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky in 1998 - that these allegations are the reason why Dean decided not to drop out of the race after Wisconsin and turned increasingly aggressive against the front-running rival in recent days.

Kerry Denies Allegations

Friday morning, veteran broadcaster Don Imus on Imus in The Morning asked John Kerry in a telephone interview if there was any truth to the allegations. Senator Kerry said "there is nothing to report... there's nothing to talk about... I'm not worried about it... the answer is 'no.'"

When confronted again in Wisconsin, Kerry told reporters "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue. Period."  The Senator then added, "And that's the last time I intend to [deny it]."

Story Not Going Away

Despite the denials, the London Telegraph is reporting that this is not going away.  A friend of Miss Polier said, "What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported," according to the Telegraph.

An overnight report in the London SUN says the attractive journalist has reportedly recorded a bombshell tell-all interview with a U.S. television network — but so far the network is sitting on the story until more evidence can be obtained to back her story.

Unlike Bill Clinton with Paula Jones, "There is no lawsuit testimony this time," a top source told Drudge. "It is hard to prove."  There is also no apparent evidence such as the stained dress that later surfaced in the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair.

With the recent wins in Nevada and Washington DC, Senator Kerry has now won 14 of the 16 Democratic primaries and looks certain to win the party's nomination.

Regardless of how the affair allegations unfold, the good news for Kerry is that previous indiscretions by another Democratic president had no detrimental effects on either of his elections. 

Jake Easton is a freelance writer and author of the book,
Americans Behaving Badly, by Radok Press.  ISBN: 0972242805

Additional Reference:

· DRUDGE: Kerry mystery woman dated campaign finance chief.  A woman at the center of John Kerry intrigue dated longtime Kerry Finance Director Peter Maroney, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. 

· Woman Denies Rumors of Kerry Affair.  A woman who has been the subject of rumors linking her to Sen. John Kerry denied Monday that she ever had an affair with the Democratic presidential candidate. 

· Clark falls prey to anti-Kerry rumor mill.  The sin of commission occurred during an astonishing, even for a rookie, judgment lapse with the gaggle of reporters covering his campaign on its final day last week. Bantering with them at length under supposedly off-the-record ground rules, Wesley Clark actually said he was still in the race because he thought Kerry's campaign was going to implode over what he inelegantly called an "intern" scandal. 

· John Kerry girl tells all.  THE beauty said to have had a fling with presidential hopeful John Kerry has recorded a bombshell tell-all interview. 

· 'This won't go away.'  "This is not going to go away," one American friend of Miss Polier said yesterday. "What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported." 

· Stray? Kerry says it ain't so.  Sen. John Kerry flatly denied swirling rumors about an extramarital affair yesterday, assuring backers that his campaign was not vulnerable to a sudden sex scandal. 

· Media mayhem in Malvern.  A global media scrum descended on the Chester County suburb of Malvern, PA yesterday because of a furor over a rumored romantic link between a 1995 Great Valley High School grad and presidential hopeful John Kerry. 

· Kerry intern hiding in Kenya.  The young intern at the center of a furor involving United States presidential hopeful John Kerry is hiding out in Kenya. 

· The Kerry scandal?  Dem presidential contender John Kerry's campaign may have been hit broadside. Pardon the pun. 

· Kerry to answer sex affair claim.  At the center of the allegations is Alex Polier, 24, who had worked as a New York-based reporter for Associated Press. She is now in Kenya. 

· Kerry Allegations: Now You Hear Them, Now You Don't.  A report alleging a "bimbo eruption" in the John F. Kerry campaign was Topic A on conservative talk radio programs Thursday, but the story was nowhere to be found in the mainstream press. 

· New JFK hit by scandal.  Presidential hopeful John Kerry was branded a “sleazeball” last night by the parents of a young woman he allegedly tried to woo. 

· Kerry under pressure over claims of affair.  Presidential hopeful John Kerry is facing growing pressure to answer allegations that he had an affair with a mystery woman.

Supporters of the Democratic frontrunner say he is the victim of a "dirty tricks" campaign after reports that he tried to cover up the relationship when the claims were revealed on a website.  

· Report says woman fled to Africa after inquiry.  The woman reportedly was approached by a top news reporter, prompting Kerry to urge her to leave the country. Drudge reported last night the woman fled to Africa, where she remains. 

· Kerry sex scandal lurking?  The worlds of politics and the media were all atwitter yesterday over a report on the popular Internet site, the Drudge Report, that Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry - the Democratic presidential front-runner - may be brought down by a sex scandal. 

· Kerry's Campaign Heading Straight for Rocks.  In late-breaking news, the US political watchdog Matt Drudge has reported that liberal Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is being investigated by several formerly fawning news media about a possible marital infidelity that may ruin his chances of securing the Democratic Presidential nomination. 

· Sex claim scandal shakes 'New JFK.'  White House hopeful John Kerry's campaign plunged into crisis last night amid sex scandal rumors. 

· Intern rumor threatens Kerry campaign.  Allegations against Vietnam war hero John Kerry today threatened his runaway U.S. presidential campaign. 

· Kerry faces big test in internet storm about mystery woman.  The campaign of Senator John Kerry, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, faced its first media storm last night after a Right-wing website alleged that he had asked a woman to leave the country for personal reasons. 

· Kerry smeared.  The campaign of Sen John Kerry, the front-runner for the U.S. Democratic nomination, faced its first media storm yesterday after a right-wing website alleged that he had asked a woman to leave the country for personal reasons. 

· It's a rocky road to the White House.  SENATOR John Kerry is discovering that the internet can be a false friend.  A boon for party fundraising, it has also proved to be fertile ground for scandal. 

· Teresa Heinz Kerry: Financier of the Radical Left.  With Matt Drudge’s recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam “brothers,” the senator’s presidential campaign may depend more than ever on the actions of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. 

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