Friday, June 22, 2007

Careful Edwards, the media are catching on...

Even if you can ignore the fact that John Edwards was banking some dollars with his "fight poverty" lingo, some of the rest of this stuff is harder to ignore-

However, the nonprofit Center for Promise and Opportunity offered distinct advantages to Edwards, its honorary chairman. The center's five officers all had worked for his previous presidential campaign, for example, and it appears to have paid for his travel to New Hampshire and several delegate-rich states.

The center wasn't subject to the limits imposed by federal election laws on a presidential exploratory committee, the first major step in raising money toward a bid. Meanwhile, it may have stretched the limits of tax law, which prohibits political nonprofits from having a primary purpose of supporting or opposing candidates.

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