In Aiding Poor, Edwards Built Bridge to 2008

The New York Times ^ | 6/22/07 | Leslie Wayne

[gridlock]

John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a presidential campaign that could finance his travels and pay for his political staff.

Mr. Edwards, who reported this year that he had assets of nearly $30 million, came up with a novel solution, creating a nonprofit organization with the stated mission of fighting poverty. The organization, the Center for Promise and Opportunity, raised $1.3 million in 2005, and — unlike a sister charity he created to raise scholarship money for poor students — the main beneficiary of the center’s fund-raising was Mr. Edwards himself, tax filings show.

A spokesman for Mr. Edwards defended the center yesterday as a legitimate tool against poverty.

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.

[Constitution Day]

I’m going to have to check out the full NYT article tonight. Too much going on right now!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Edwards is Toast.”

Dear John,

You are a rank amateur at this. Enjoy your contributions. You will never get to spend them.

With love

Hill

[pepsionice]

Edwards is running for VP...thats his gameplan. Hillary will have to pick a southerner...to get a southern state or two. The trouble is....not a single southern state wants Edwards. I’m thinking he will have to go back and run for governor or something...and just forget about national ambitions.

[ripley]

“hillary will have to pick a southerner...to get a southern state or two...”

it’s a wonder that hillary!’s (et al) machinations don’t awaken the “electorate” to the underhanded doings of the communists in the democrat party. it’s just impossible to keep up with their lies and distortions. they keep going and going and going....just like that energizer bunny. they have no morality except that of attaining their internationalist goals. (maybe, one day, the u.s. constitution will be looked upon as worthy of re-instituting if the “electorate” continues to be dominated by left-leaning, propagandized individuals.)