Edwards Using Wife’s Cancer for Fundraising Pitch?
April 5, 2007 · By Greg Farries
Mary Ann Akers, from The Slueth at the Washington Post, writes,
When you visit the John Edwards for President Web site, you’re invited to send a sympathy note to the Edwardses. And tens of thousands of well wishers have done so since that heart-wrenching news conference two weeks ago at which Elizabeth Edwards courageously discussed her incurable cancer.
What those well wishers get in return — e-mail messages soliciting contributions to Edwards’s campaign.
John Hawkins comments that his is par for the course for the Democrats,
[these are] the same people who trotted out Max Cleland to campaign for Kerry, used Michael J. Fox to plug stem cells, hyped Cindy Sheehan up into an anti-war superstar, and turned Paul Wellstone’s funeral into a campaign rally.
what do you expect from an ambulance chasing trial lawyer.
Campaigns are always soliciting funds, but the Edwards campaign should have taken extra care to have avoided doing so in this case.
cash: what a trite and sad comment. Can’t you come up with something more than a cliche, espcially one that doesn’t even make sense??
[...] He then asks on his campaign website for messages of sympathy to his wife. Anyone sending one gets an email asking for a campaign contribution.6. When being chosen as John Kerry’s running mate, he informed Kerry he’d recount a story he’d [...]