Reply #1: This goes back a long way with those two

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They hate each other. See this article from 10/28/94
TERESA HEINZ HAS HARSH WORDS FOR SANTORUM
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, SOONER, Sec. NATIONAL, p A-1 10-28-1994
By POST-GAZETTE STAFF WRITER DENNIS B. RODDY

Teresa Heinz, widow of Sen. John Heinz, delivered an extraordinary public criticism of the Republican nominee for the late senator's post, calling U.S. Rep. Rick Santorum "short on public service and even shorter on accomplishments" and "the antithesis of John Heinz."

In a speech before the University of Pittsburgh's American Experience Lecture Series, Heinz, who briefly considered running in the Republican Senate primary this year, took aim at Santorum's remarks ridiculing the National Service Corps program, a brainchild of incumbent Democratic Sen. Harris Wofford. She called Santorum's published remarks about other Pennsylvania legislators "truly juvenile. That's even too good a word," and defended the 30-year-old tradition of moderate Republicanism she said her husband epitomized.

In a brief interview after the speech, Heinz said she did not intend to endorse in the Senate race, but said she had no plans to vote for Santorum while calling Wofford "a dignified, noble human being."

"I certainly would not vote for someone who is the antithesis of my husband," she said.

"Here is a challenger," Heinz said of Santorum, "who is short on public service and even shorter on accomplishments. He is articulate, he's full of sound bites, overflowing with glib ideology -- in short, good TV, good entertainment."

In her prepared remarks, Heinz described "a worrisome breed" of politicians who she said "mock, belittle and vilify those who disagree with them," and referred to them as "Forrest Gump with an attitude."

The Heinz speech, scheduled shortly after she announced that she would not run for Senate late last year, marked a dramatic turn in a Senate race in which Santorum has drawn even -- possibly ahead -- of Wofford. She decided to include the scorching criticisms of Santorum, Heinz said, after reading his remarks from a radio debate at which he poured scorn on the National Service Corps. Heinz is a member of the board that oversees the program.

"Somebody is going to do one year of community service picking up trash in the park and singing 'Kumbayah' around the campfire at night and you're going to give them the equivalent of the GI Bill," Santorum said during the radio debate.

"Here's a program designed to restore young people's faith in the notion of public service, among other things, by having them participate in gang intervention, tutoring, mentoring, immunizing children, refurbishing low-income housing, helping senior citizens," Heinz told the audience last night. "Not exactly Kumbayah. How dare he."

The remark drew applause. One audience member walked out.

Heinz was especially angered at published remarks by Santorum in which he said that "most candidates in Pennsylvania talk about locks and dams, things that are nonideological, and as a result, we've not had a whole bunch of impact on the national scene."

While saying her husband "worked on the grand issues of the day," Heinz said the late senator "also worried about locks and dams. And he talked about roads and bridges and rail service and mass transit in all of his campaigns ... People counted on him and he respected that. He never allowed their needs to become secondary either to his ambitions or to some partisan ideology."

Heinz said she decided to include her remarks about Santorum in the speech after returning from California last week and seeing Santorum's criticisms of past state leaders in The New York Times' Oct. 20 edition.

"I saw that thing and I said, 'Hey, wait a minute,' " she said. "I just resent the lambasting of the mainstream Republicans in Pennsylvania." She said the late senator's mother also was distressed by Santorum's comments.

Aides said Teresa Heinz telephoned Santorum to complain when, earlier this year, he cited John Heinz as a "mentor."

In response to a question from the audience, Heinz said she did not expect to run for public office in her lifetime.

"No, I don't think so. I don't have any illusions about public life," she said. "I would like to be an enabler."

Santorum's campaign had no immediate response to the Heinz remarks, while Wofford's camp was elated by the news.

Greta Creech, Wofford's press secretary, called the Heinz remarks "very welcome, very eloquent and greatly appreciated."

She described Wofford and Heinz as "longtime friends. There are a lot of things that bring them together, one of which is their dislike for the radical right wing of the Republican party."