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Posted on 08/03/2004 9:03:21 AM PDT by antonia
Our editor, Walter Olson, has covered this territory before, but it's worth revisiting as Kerry and Edwards make their way across key states in their bus caravan campaign. The report on the men behind John Edwards at EdwardsWatch makes for interesting reading.:
According to published reports, Edwards received $4.65 million from 3,220 lawyers, 29 paralegals, 17 legal assistants and 555 people with the same address as a personal injury attorney contributor (such as a spouse or close relative). The $4.65 million represents 63% of the total money raised by Edwards. Over one-third of those contributors gave the maximum $2,000..
His biggest contributors include patron, friend, campaign finance director, and asbestos-litigator extraordinaire Fred Baron, Silicon Valley litigator William Lerach (see also this), and the mysterious Stephen Bing.
He also has close ties to the law firms Girardi and Keese and Chitwood and Harley. And that's just the tip of the special interest iceberg.
Other tidbits from the EdwardsWatch site include the discount air travel Edwards gets from his trial lawyer friends and the money he's gotten from every state trial lawyers association in the country. Has there ever been a candidate so beholden to one special interest?
More: See also details at Rantburg and Edwards' PAC donors from OpenSecrets.org.
One North Carolina doctor's story.
(Excerpt) Read more at overlawyered.com ...
Love the title! hehe
The title confirms that he's a catcher, versus a pitcher....surprise, surprise.
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Also, there are strong indications that the "donations" from paralegals, clerks, etc. are "strawman" donations being reimbursed by law firm partners.
Thanks! This is good data.
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"Learjet Lawyers."
Now, that's catchy. Would look very good on a Freep Sign at a Edwards appearance.
Learjet Lawyer...bump
Your creative minds and graphic art skills can have some fun here.
You just might be able to come up with one of your classics here.
Don't want to break any rules on spamming--but it bears repeating because it's something we locals can do...
If you know your local trial lawyers, check them out on fundrace.org and newsmeat.com --these are campaign donor research sites. I encourage all freepers to learn to use them...
If you can locate a donating lawyer, you might also find out the office help he uses to sneak more donor money into Edwards' campaign. This is against the law, but you know lawyers and their respect for the law...Edwards has already been caught doing this.
Don't want to break any rules on spamming--but it bears repeating because it's something we locals can do...
If you know your local trial lawyers, check them out on fundrace.org and newsmeat.com --these are campaign donor research sites. I encourage all freepers to learn to use them...
If you can locate a donating lawyer, you might also find out the office help he uses to sneak more donor money into Edwards' campaign. This is against the law, but you know lawyers and their respect for the law...Edwards has already been caught doing this.
The Men Behind Edwards
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Same religion - different denomination.
Sure I'm a personal injury lawyer, but I'm one of the "Good Guys!"
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