06-26-2007, 09:26 AM
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Junkie
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
ace....it seems to me those are questions you should be answering since you are the one calling Edwards a hypocrite.
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Now it is the New York Times taking a shot at Edwards. Where are Edwards' defenders? Still ignoring the 800 pound gorilla, I bet.
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The organization became a big part of a shadow political apparatus for Mr. Edwards after his defeat as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2004 and before the start of his presidential bid this time around. Its officers were members of his political staff, and it helped pay for his nearly constant travel, including to early primary states.
While Mr. Edwards said the organization’s purpose was “making the eradication of poverty the cause of this generation,” its federal filings say it financed “retreats and seminars” with foreign policy experts on Iraq and national security issues. Unlike the scholarship charity, donations to it were not tax deductible, and, significantly, it did not have to disclose its donors — as political action committees and other political fund-raising vehicles do — and there were no limits on the size of individual donations.
Mr. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, set out to keep his political options open by promoting issues he cared about, like poverty.
“He wanted to learn, travel and be in a position to be a viable candidate,” said J. Edwin Turlington, a Raleigh lawyer who was the manager of Mr. Edward’s 2003 presidential exploratory committee.
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He traveled to China, India, Brussels, Uganda and Russia, and met with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and his likely successor, Gordon Brown, at 10 Downing Street.
“He was not a U.S. senator; he had no office,” said Ferrel Guillory, a political program director at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. “So he set up a series of entities to finance his travel, to finance a political shop and to finance an issue shop. It all adds up to a remarkable feat of keeping a presidential candidacy alive without any of the traditional bases for it.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/us...in&oref=slogin
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Last edited by aceventura3; 06-26-2007 at 09:30 AM..
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