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Dallas lawyer Fred Baron: I paid Edwards' mistress to leave
Dallas Morning News ^
| 8/8/08
| GROMER JEFFERS JR.
Posted on 08/08/2008 4:34:01 PM PDT by smokinleroy
Dallas lawyer Fred Baron told The Dallas Morning News today that he made regular payments to the woman that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has confessed to having an affair with.
Mr. Baron, who was chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee, said he paid money to Rielle Hunter to move from North Carolina to another location.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: edwards; fredbaron; hushmoney; mistress; payoff; riellehunter
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The plot thickens
To: smokinleroy
Mr. Baron, who was chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee, said he paid money for Rielle Hunter to move from North Carolina to another location. Wanna bet the came from the campaign funds? Probably well laundered, but from the campaign "war chest" originally.
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:37:26 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: smokinleroy
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:38:41 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: smokinleroy
Holy crap, is Baron admitting to a felony here?
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:40:04 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")
To: El Gato
convenient excuse for paying hush money: helping victim avoid reporters
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:41:09 PM PDT
by
alrea
To: smokinleroy
... chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee ...
Nope, nothing out of the ordinary here!
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:43:01 PM PDT
by
Disturbin
(Liberals: buying votes with your tax dollars)
To: smokinleroy
That is not Edward’s child? She has been around.
To: smokinleroy
Gee will there be more revelations?
It’s a truism in politics and the public eye that you want to get all the bad news out there at once. You don’t want the constant drip drip drip of more leaks and more revelations making things worse. I figured he went public now to get this out of the way for the Dem. convention coming up. We’ll see............
To: BunnySlippers
Sorry. I did a search on Dallas, and this did not come up because the search criterion was set to Keywords, not Titles. Lessons learned.
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:44:38 PM PDT
by
smokinleroy
(How come gas prices spiked only AFTER the democrats won Congress?)
To: El Gato
Wanna bet the came from the campaign funds? Well you can rely on this. If Mr. Baron as Chairman of Edwards campaign drew a salary at all you couldn't attribute his payment to Ms. Hunter as anything else but coming from the campaign.
In reverse if he gave money to people to make a campaign contribution (which would exceed the legal max) it would legally be construed to have come from him.
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:44:49 PM PDT
by
scannell
To: smokinleroy
Go to your room without supper!
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:47:18 PM PDT
by
Krankor
(N)
To: smokinleroy
Oops. Looks like Edwards's 99% honesty rating just took a hit.
Why do I get the feeling more hits are coming?
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:48:04 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(Barack Obama is lika a bowl of chili - - he's full of beans.)
To: Texas Eagle
Two Americas: Those that get some on the side, and........
Those that don't.
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:49:28 PM PDT
by
scannell
To: smokinleroy
I hope he used campaign funds donated by braindead lefty moonbats.
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:49:28 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Fire mission!)
To: scannell
So that’s why Edwards thought there were Two Americas. He was leading a double life.
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:51:29 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(Barack Obama is lika a bowl of chili - - he's full of beans.)
To: smokinleroy
If you do not think Edwards is the father of this kid, I have ocean front property to sell you in Omaha.
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
“That is not Edward’s child? She has been around.”
So has he! He has been around enough to know that most Demonrats are too stupid to figure out what others have with common sense.
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posted on
08/08/2008 4:56:21 PM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: Beagle8U
“That is not Edward’s child? She has been around.”
Once he admitted to having the affair, the honorable thing would be been to claim the child, and perhaps any other children of hers with no father on the birth certificate. He has now thrown her under the bus.
To: clintonh8r
“I hope he used campaign funds donated by braindead lefty moonbats.”
Doesn’t this put the lie to the spin I’ve been hearing all afternoon that this is a private matter between Edwards and his family? If he may have paid her off with campaign funds, this is not a private matter.
The sympathy I’ve heard expressed today on the talk shows and TV interviews for that scumbag Edwards is nauseating.
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
He has now thrown her under the bus. So, I take it you're saying that the screwing she got wasn't worth the screwing she got.
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posted on
08/08/2008 5:02:39 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Alaska has the oil. The Senate has the dipsticks.)
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