ACORN to Endorse Edwards

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http://freestatepolitics.us/showDiary.do?diaryId=1045

:D

[MadBadger]

1. Donna Edwards

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2. Hey

Why did you ruin the surprise? :D

[MadBadger]

3. Party pooper?

Plus not always sure if one is joking or not

[fooj]

4. Edwards certainly seems to have your panties in a twist.

Wonder why that is?

[seriousstan]

5. There's a glowing endorsement. I hope he distances himself.

Maybe they will collect signatures for him or pay for registrations to vote in crack in John's name. WALK AWAY!

[Breeze54]

8. What a ridiculous comment. Edwards has been with ACORN since 2005

Published on Saturday, April 15, 2006 by CommonDreams.org

John Edwards and the Politics of Poverty

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0415-30.htm

by John Atlas and Peter Dreier

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The March conference was sponsored by the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina, a research institute Edwards founded last year after his defeat as the Democratic vice presidential candidate in November 2004.

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Since January 2005, he has visited 34 states and three foreign countries talking about the "two Americas." In key swing states like Ohio, Iowa, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada - where an increase in voter turnout among working class voters could make a big difference in the outcome of races for Congress, Senator, Governor and President
-- Edwards has joined Maud Hurd, president of the activist group ACORN, to promote grassroots campaigns to raise the minimum wage. At each stop Edwards said, "I am strongly committed to moving people out of poverty and into the middle class," and one of most important things we can do is help families earn more money at work."

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Edward's riff echoes Bill Clinton's campaign theme that "Any American willing to work hard and play by the rules should have a chance to get ahead." But Edward's willingness -- even eagerness -- to work alongside unions and groups like ACORN puts him closer to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, or perhaps closer to the kind of politics that Bobby Kennedy embraced when he built a campaign coalition that included civil rights groups, labor unions, and the poor, and would have catapulted him to the White House, had he not been killed in 1968.

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6. kick

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[chimpymustgo]

7. And Donna Edwards has endorsed John Edwards. It's all good. nt

nt

[redqueen]

9. Lounge stuff...

nevermind.