John Edwards... the REST of the story

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175. Nope, sorry. YOU are wrong. We're talking about two different things

the UNC center, btw, was not created by Edwards though he was recruited by it to lead it.

John Edwards Ends Fling With Anti-Poverty Center

By Ken Silverstein

Once upon a time John Edwards wanted to be president. “Poverty,” he said back then, “is the great moral issue of our century,” he told a group of students at Berkeley in 2005. “People living in poverty need you. And another thing: America needs you.”

To show his own dedication, Edwards “created a tax-exempt nonprofit dedicated to fighting poverty”, reported the New York Times. Except:

The organization, the Center for Promise and Opportunity, raised $1.3 million in 2005, and—unlike a sister charity he created to raise scholarship money for poor students—the main beneficiary of the center’s fund-raising was Mr. Edwards himself, tax filings show…

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http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003382