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Bonior to Run Edwards Campaign
 Former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), the erstwhile vice presidential candidate, has hired former US Rep. David Bonior (D-MI) to run his 2008 campaign for president. Bonior left Congress in 2002 after thirteen terms when his district was re-districted into a no-win Republican stronghold. Bonior, who was born in Detroit, has strong labor ties, and is a Dorothy Day Catholic – a liberal on everything but abortion.
The central plank in Edwards’ presidential platform is the issue of working people, the poor, (the two by no means mutually exclusive) and the problems they face in 21st Century America. The other candidates, especially the DLCistas, such as Clinton, Bayh, and Vilsack, are more comfortable leaving our future in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce. Edwards, however, is a former trial attorney who made a small fortune putting the wood to negligent companies – hence his skeptical view of corporate beneficence.
~Jack McEnany
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