Posted on 08/09/2008 5:57:30 PM PDT by mathprof
Rielle Hunter, the former presidential campaign aide who had an affair with John Edwards, said yesterday that she will not pursue DNA testing to establish the paternity of her 5-month-old daughter, despite the former senator's offer to participate in such a test.
In a statement provided to The Washington Post, Hunter said through her attorney that she will not be party to such a test "now or in the future."
The attorney, Robert Gordon, called Hunter a "private" person who is "not running for public office" and would not comment further.
"She wishes to maintain her privacy and her daughter's privacy," he said in the statement. "Furthermore, Rielle will not participate in DNA testing or any other invasion of her or her daughter's privacy now or in the future."
If Hunter sticks to that position, it will ease the pressure on Edwards, who on Friday dropped his earlier denials and admitted to having an affair with Hunter in 2006 but denied being the father of the child.
Edwards, a Democrat who represented North Carolina, maintained in a statement that the affair ended too soon for him to have fathered her baby, Frances Quinn Hunter, who was born Feb. 27. Hunter and a former Edwards fundraiser, Andrew Young, have maintained that Young is the father.
"I would welcome participating in a paternity test," Edwards told ABC's Bob Woodruff on Friday. "Be happy to participate in one. I know that it's not possible that this child could be mine because of the timing of events. . . . Happy to take a paternity test and would love to see it happen."
ABC News reported on its Web site yesterday that Hunter's younger sister Melissa said that Edwards should immediately follow through on his pledge to take a paternity test.
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Here, by the way, is the neighborhood where the Breck Girl evidently put her and the love child up before they moved to Santa Barbarbar: http://www.governorsclub.com/
Ease pressure how? At this point any sane person will believe that she is covering for him. Oh... right. We’re talking about Democratic voters.
she did ok for herself.
$15,000 per month is more than she would ever earn,
feminism or no feminism.
Seems to me Edwards needs to face up to issues at hand. There no political career after this. The best he will able to is to have is a small voice First he should attempt to make it right with wife and family.
Only if he never re-enters politics. As it stands now, the default position is that he's lying and he would have to get the test to clear his "good name."
From her point of view, she's getting all the money she can get and might even lose some if she pushes for the test.
I suspect her current pay-off arrangement is contingent upon not attempting to push the issue.
It would be interesting if the National Enquirer might get on this and find out how much hush money or other inducements like jobs she has been promised.
Why do you say that? He is a Democrat, remember. Isn't unfaithfulness to your wife a resume enhancer for Democrats? Bill Clinton proved that even an elected official can do far worse and be hailed as a great man and leader.
Edwards has pulled another Jesse Jackson stunt - namely to use someone elses money to support his elicit lover. That governor of New York could learn something from those two when it comes to paying off his girl friends.
And Obama won’t let anyone see his birth certificate. The real one, that is.
Exactly. His political life has ended. Her saying that she will not allow the DNA test on her child was decided between the two of them so Edwards could come out and say he was willing to have the DNA test. She will continue to cover for him and most likely he told her he will “be with her” after Elizabeth dies.
I hope Elizabeth gets a good attorney and cleans his clock!
That is what I suspect also.
Sounds to me as if she's either a kept woman or a blackmailer.
si.
$10 says the National Enquirer or a hotel housekeeper already has a wipe rag or a dirty diaper?
Get Tony (the Pelican,who’d you think?!) on the case. He’ll find the real father in no time.Oh, wait...
You are so right. That $10 is a lock.
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