- Zachary Coile, Chronicle Political Writer
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Voters interviewed Tuesday said they felt comfortable backing someone who grew up in the mill towns of the Carolinas. Edwards' family moved to North Carolina when he was a young boy.
"He's from this area, and I think he understands the South and the issues of the South," said Roy Chandler, a 71-year white Democrat who runs several retail businesses in Orangeburg.
Edwards built a formidable campaign organization that sent thousands of volunteers knocking on doors. He campaigned in South Carolina for more than a year, and his aides convinced more 100 ministers of black churches to endorse him from the pulpit on Sunday.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/04/MNG984OIGK1.DTL&type=printable
Since AU is vowing vigilance on the "Arkansas pastor promotes Bush" allegation (cf. link on your web page), can I entrust you to be similarly vigilant about what would be at the very least as similarly egregious a violation?
Edwards built a formidable campaign organization that sent thousands of volunteers knocking on doors. He campaigned in South Carolina for more than a year, and his aides convinced more 100 ministers of black churches to endorse him from the pulpit on Sunday.
"Kerry didn't have an organization," said Edwin Givens, Edwards' statewide church coordinator. "He didn't have a base in the black church, which is the most important political institution in the black community."
Please let me know the results of your actions to remedy this attempted breach of the wall of separation.