Posted on 08/10/2008 10:28:56 PM PDT by pissant
RALEIGH, N.C. - There were few people closer to John Edwards during his presidential campaigns than Fred Baron, a renowned Texas trial lawyer who evolved into one of the Democratic Party’s key fund-raisers.
Baron, who made his fortune as a celebrated litigator on asbestos-injury cases before turning his attention to Democratic presidential tickets, was part of Edwards’ inner circle of advisers.
But when it came to one key financial decision, Baron said he chose to keep the former senator out of the loop.
On Friday, after Edwards confessed to having an affair with Rielle Hunter, a video producer with whom he had been linked romantically for months in tabloids, Baron stepped forward with a disclosure of his own.
Baron, chairman of Edwards’ 2004 and 2008 finance committee, said he, without Edwards’ knowledge, had paid for Hunter to leave Chapel Hill because she was being hounded by tabloids.
Edwards said he knew nothing about the payments nor had he told anybody to make them.
“I made a decision on my own, without talking to Edwards or anybody, to try to help them move to a community or to try to get away from those folks,” Baron told The Dallas Morning News.
Baron insisted he used his own money, not campaign finance funds, without disclosing the sum that he gave Hunter.
“John Edwards is an extraordinary human being who made an egregious error,” Baron told The Dallas Morning News.
What was in it for Baron? Was he promised some kind of influential position in an Edward’s administration?
If the whole story wasn’t true according to Edwards and Hunter, then who cares if the tabloids were hounding her. Eventually they’d go away and quit wasting their time on a non-story.
What was in it for Young, who as a married man, made himself the fall guy by having it said he was the father of Hunter’s child?
People in politics normally don’t just do something out of the goodness of their hearts - there’s always an angle.
Geez - this whole thing reminds me of Clinton and when he and Hillary said they never knew anything about all the scandals relating to him until he read it in the newspaper.
“John Edwards is an extraordinary human being...”
LMAO!!!! Based on what scale?!
So naturally, after her 'clearing', she met Edwards in a BAR!
Drugs, alcohol, cocaine and politicians. There must have been a reason her last name was HUNTER!
A reptile scale.
1. Edwards got singed.
2. Obama gets singed by way of association with Edwards.
3. Andrew Young got singed. And Bill Clinton must be personally happy because of Young's prior crack about Bill and black females.
4. A lawyer friend of Edwards gets singed because his part in this got exposed. He has more explaining to do now. He must be a happy camper.
5. And certainly the MSM was singed BIG TIME. But then, they had it coming.
That’s a different Andrew Young we are talking about. One is a black former mayor, the other is silky’s gay lover who took the rap on fathering the lovechild.
LOL - I got the wrong Young? Yikes!
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