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Brothels, Communists, and Other Things That Will Go Unmentioned at the Ted Kennedy Institute

By Doug Powers • March 1, 2011 11:11 AM

**Written by Doug Powers

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute will make no mention of these things, but if you ask me they’re worthy of an entire wing:

The late Sen. Ted Kennedy arranged to “rent” a brothel for a night while on a visit to Chile and other Latin American countries decades ago, according to a 1961 State Department memo obtained and published by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch released several documents said to be from Kennedy’s FBI file. The group said it obtained a cleaner copy of the State Department memo after a mostly redacted version was made public earlier.

The Dec. 28, 1961, memo described a tour of several Latin American countries Kennedy made while he was an assistant prosecutor with Suffolk County, Mass.

Traveling with a professor, Kennedy “insisted on interviewing ‘the angry young men’ of the country,” according to the memo. This included “communists and others who had left-wing views.”

Meanwhile, your tax dollars continue to be poured into a shrine to the man who spent his political life handing out somebody else’s money and taking personal credit for the philanthropy. Ted’s still managing to spend taxpayer money from the great beyond, so you might want to keep a tight grip on your wallet for the foreseeable future:

In the 2009 federal budget, $5,813,000 was appropriated to the project through the Labor Department and Department of Health & Human Services spending bill. In the 2010 budget, $13,600,000 was funneled through the from the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services and another $18,900,000 through the Defense Department spending bill.

In April of last year, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry and Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Edward Markey attempted to insert another $8 million more in the now defunct Omnibus bill.

With $38.3 million already in the Institutes’s coffers and Kennedy’s wife Vicki pushing hard for more, Andre Lafferty and the Traditional Values Coalition are keeping a sharp eye, hoping to prevent any more federal funds from going to Kennedy’s center.

The family would use their own money for this project but they don’t want to dishonor the legacy.

Wouldn’t Ted want these tens of millions of dollars to go towards health care for the poor instead of a monument to himself? Don’t answer that.

Last year John Kerry defended the spending, saying the EMK Institute would draw tourists to Boston. That should come as great news for taxpayers in Provo, Tampa, Paducah and St. Louis who are also paying for it.

Draw tourists?

“Honey, should we go to Disneyland, Hawaii or maybe Paris this year?”

“Forget about all that — we’re going to the Ted Kennedy Institute!”

If they’d actually build a brothel wing, then Kerry might be on to something. Now that I think about it, a KGB wing could lure in tourists from Russia.

**Written by Doug Powers

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#101

On March 1st, 2011 at 7:06 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

D.C. is Kennedy free for the first time in about 60 years.
#102

On March 1st, 2011 at 7:14 pm, ShoreDor said:

On March 1st, 2011 at 6:13 pm, Merlyn said:
I agree Virginia Patriot that the odds of this happening now are slim to none but we must strive to reform our out of control government and we have to start somewhere. Let’s hope with the 2012 election results, we have better chances of getting this done. It should be a major agenda item for the 2013 congress.

Just like breaking the death grip of the unions, this might be the best chance we ever have to pass term limits. Most of the country is completely disgusted with the performance of our elected officials at all levels of government.

Keep talking it up, I think you’ll find that most people will agree with you.
#103

On March 1st, 2011 at 8:12 pm, Hangfire said:

On March 1st, 2011 at 7:14 pm, ShoreDor said:
Just like breaking the death grip of the unions, this might be the best chance we ever have to pass term limits. Most of the country is completely disgusted with the performance of our elected officials at all levels of government.

Ah, that would be lovely. Term limits, especially for the House of Lords (Senate).

Hawaii’s two senators are older than dirt. If Akaka gets re-elected, he will be well into his 90′s at the completion of his term.

And Inouye is starting to look like the walking dead, too. Everyone here says “Inouye is a war hero, a Medal of Honor winner.” Inouye is also 3rd in line for the Presidency.

Well, the Army decided that Inouye’s heroic actions and loss of his arm merited him the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star back in 1945. But Truman didn’t give him a Medal of Honor. Clinton did during his Presidency, a Dem-to-Dem gift.
#104

On March 1st, 2011 at 11:23 pm, ChapBix said:

There is an alternative to term limits although it would face as much of an uphill fight to be enacted.

At the state level where voter initiatives can be placed on the ballot in some states, a proposal /question is put before the voters: Do you favor having officeholders resign before running for any other office? Officeholders could stand for re-election to the office they currently hold but would have to resign their office at the beginning of a campaign to run for any other office including moving up to a federal office.
#105

On March 2nd, 2011 at 9:04 am, RedDog said:

Was Ted Kennedy buried at Arlington? If so he should be dug up and moved elsewhere. A traitor and a disgrace.
#106

On March 2nd, 2011 at 10:43 am, cheapseat said:

Too funny Doug! Would the Kennedy-Dodd rape sandwich table go in the Brothel wing, or the KGB prison wing? John was the only brother not a total disgrace, and that was only because he actually served honorably and well in the military. His two younger brothers were pond scum.
#107

On March 4th, 2011 at 10:03 pm, pokenhorn said:

Ted Kennedy was right on this much: The Democratic Party really is the ‘Democratic Potty’.