From: George Sherwood 

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:11:44 -0500, Rich Gauszka wrote:

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> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0322061cheney1.html
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And now for how the other half lives.  Truthfully I don't see the big deal
in either of these.  I have dealt with VIP arrangements for most of my
career.  John Kerry's demands:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com//archive/0327061kerry1.html

During 2004 tour, Democrat and wife were more demanding than Dick

MARCH 27--In the spirit of bipartisanship, The Smoking Gun today extends
our review of political tour riders across the aisle to examine Senator
John Kerry, whose list of demands (and that of his wife) makes
Sprite-lovin' Vice President Dick Cheney look like a travelin' rube. The
riders for Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry were compiled during the last
presidential campaign and were circulated by the Democratic candidate's
advance team, a member of which provided them to TSG. The documents (one is
actually labeled "Confidential") detail Kerry's food favorites
and drop the bombshell that the Massachusetts senator "hates
celery." His hotel rider notes that the "phone and the ability to
order movies in suite should always be turned on and ready to go for JK's
arrival," things that make him "very happy." The more
detailed rider, of course, belongs to the politician's spouse, who likes
celery and snoozing on a "Heavenly Bed" in a Starwood hotel that
has "good air circulation." She also digs flax bread, stone
crabs, peanut power butter, filet mignon with veggies, and bottled water
apparently run through a "reverse osmosis filter." Why are we not
surprised? (4 pages)

George

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