John Edwards is back in the news: His wife Elizabeth is out
hawking a new book (Catch her Thursday on Oprah!), and there's a
federal investigation into whether Edwards improperly used
campaign money to pay off his mistress, Rielle Hunter:
Edwards's political action committee, One America, paid Hunter
a total of $114,000 for videos she shot to show Edwards's
offbeat side as he traveled the country in 2006 promoting his
anti-poverty plans. The last of those payments, for about
$14,000, was made in April 2007, right around the time that
Edwards's campaign paid One America, which was nearly out of
funds at that point, about $14,000 for what was listed as a
furniture expense.
"I'm sure Rielle is thrilled that she got paid for being a piece
of furniture."
snarks Deceiver. "Well, technically it's true. He did spend a
lot of time on top of her."
By the way, as usual, the National Enquirer was way
ahead of the mainstream media on this; they had
the story about the investigation a month ago.
Mickey Kaus
asks Joe Trippi what he knew and when. Ben Smith asks
similar questions of other campaign aids. Lee Stranahan
rakes Elizabeth over the coals.
