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Edwards' bag man says he's only known about affair for a few weeks
The Charlotte Observer ^ | Aug 13, 2008

Posted on 08/13/2008 3:21:38 PM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man

Fred Baron now claims that he moved Young and Hunter, gave them money, but didn't know about the affair until a few weeks ago...

The former campaign finance chairman for John Edwards said this morning he was unaware of Edwards' affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter when he paid to move her to California last year.

In an e-mail this morning to The News & Observer, Dallas lawyer Fred Baron wrote, "I will re-state what I have previously stated on one point: I learned of the affair only a few weeks ago and had previously presumed that the 'tabloid' stuff was all bogus..."

...A key national fundraiser for Democratic Party causes, Baron released his own statement Friday declaring that he had decided independently, without notifying Edwards, to help Hunter and Young "rebuild their lives when harassment by supermarket tabloids made it impossible for them to conduct a normal life." He paid for their move from Chapel Hill to California...

...According to an article published Sunday, Baron told The New York Post that Hunter, Young and Young's family lived together in California until tension in the household grew.

"They lived in a single house most of the time and split to two houses recently," Baron told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: edwards; fredbaron; hushmoney; johnedwards; lawyers; lovechild; riellehunter; scandals
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How con-veeeee-nient.

In related news, apparently Elizabeth Edwards' friends and family aren't happy, and have spilled to People magazine.

Her incurable breast cancer put time pressure on her decision because she couldn't think, "Well, maybe we'll work through this for years or maybe we should separate for two years," McElroy said. Elizabeth's final choice to stay with her husband was based on the reality that her cancer eventually will get the best of her, leaving her children without a mother. "That was an extraordinary burden for her," McElroy said.

Elizabeth ended up campaigning for her husband but did so far less than she had when he was John Kerry's running mate in 2004.

When news of the affair broke, she pushed him to open up about it to the public, which Edwards did when he taped an interview with ABC's "Nightline" on Aug. 8.

But she was crushed when his interview didn't lead to relief but instead to more digging into Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.

Not only did his interview not work, but neither did her blog posting with the Kos Kids. OOPS.

The NY Daily News notes that Elizabeth Edwards' brother has also thrown John under the bus:

Elizabeth Edwards was furious and distraught about her husband's betrayal, but she decided to keep her marriage in tact, in large part, because of her terminal cancer and the prospect that her children will one day be motherless, those closest to her said. In 2007, doctors diagnosed Elizabeth with incurable cancer.

The fact that she was living with a terminal disease, "the uncertainty of her own mortality," forced her to make a decision, her younger brother, Jay Anania said.


1 posted on 08/13/2008 3:21:38 PM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Bet he’s good at calling it rain on your leg, too.


2 posted on 08/13/2008 3:24:21 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (My spiritual advisor is a lawyer.)
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Why do I think there are/were pictures somewhere...lotsa pictures.


3 posted on 08/13/2008 3:25:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

I’m glad my lawyer isn’t this clueless...of course, he is lying through his teeth.


4 posted on 08/13/2008 3:26:44 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

he he he


5 posted on 08/13/2008 3:27:03 PM PDT by rrrod
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To: Sacajaweau

Can’t you just see Edwards? But honey, I was only trying to protect you in your dying days...

Hey Chucky...if Liz makes you a milkshake, I wouldn’t drink it.


6 posted on 08/13/2008 3:27:45 PM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Oh puhleezzze ...


7 posted on 08/13/2008 3:28:53 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

What a crock of bullshit these people are spewing.


8 posted on 08/13/2008 3:29:24 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

and I just won seven gold medals at the Olympics in Bejing . . . R-I-G-H-T. Time for an audit and to review Baron’s financial records.


9 posted on 08/13/2008 3:39:02 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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Folks are fleeing the SS Edwards like rats leaving a sinking ship.


10 posted on 08/13/2008 3:40:36 PM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Fred and Lisa Druck sounds as though they are a good fit. He hands out the cash and she takes it.


11 posted on 08/13/2008 3:40:41 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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"They lived in a single house most of the time and split to two houses recently," Baron told The Post.

Assuming this is true, it proves that Andrew Young is not the father. I mean really, does anyone think Young's wife would have lived in the same house with Rielle Hunter if she believed Rielle was carrying her husband's child?

Edwards is obviously the daddy.

12 posted on 08/13/2008 3:41:20 PM PDT by freespirited (Honk if you miss Licorice.)
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:-). And I bet Johnny boy thinks he is still speaking at the Democratic convention . . . ah big egos—hard landings.
13 posted on 08/13/2008 3:42:16 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: freespirited
Well, that depends, to use the current vernacular, on how strong is Andrew Young's pimp hand.
14 posted on 08/13/2008 3:44:55 PM PDT by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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To: Chucky is a girlie man
Has Edwards or Hunter said what he was doing at her hotel at 2am?
15 posted on 08/13/2008 3:46:38 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Everyone has had a piece of Hotlips Hunter . . . lol.


16 posted on 08/13/2008 3:48:44 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Ditter

good question. I do not think so.


17 posted on 08/13/2008 3:49:53 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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18 posted on 08/13/2008 3:49:56 PM PDT by pollwatcher (John Edwards: Stop insulting our intelligence & head back to Mayberry, Goober!)
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

The Edwardses have not, at least so far, sat down with their younger children to discuss the scandal. “The kids are, to a certain extent, oblivious,” Elizabeth’s brother Jay Anania tells PEOPLE, “but children are very wise and know things.”

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20218879,00.html


19 posted on 08/13/2008 3:50:03 PM PDT by kcvl
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Hey Fred, I might have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night.


20 posted on 08/13/2008 3:50:03 PM PDT by mass55th
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