From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Typical celery hating liberal 

"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:pan.2006.03.27.14.41.53.503647{at}beernabeer.com...
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:11:44 -0500, Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0322061cheney1.html
>>
>
> 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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