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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 ...
LOL, wonder if he's sued his 'hairdresser'??
Love it!
A real trial lawyer in full law suit pursuit!
As always, great work! thanks
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