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Thursday, 05 April 2007
It's all about the money

Edwards uses wife's illness for campaign phishing
Michelle Malkin

NYPost reports:

"Democratic White House hopeful John Edwards' team has been collecting e-mail addresses from supporters who've sent his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, notes - and using them for fund-raising requests, aides acknowledged yesterday.

The link on Edwards' campaign Web site invites people to "send a note to Elizabeth and John" and features a sad letter from the former senator penned just after the couple found out her breast cancer had spread and is now incurable.

But people who've been sending such well wishes have been hit with e-mail solicitations from Team Edwards, asking for donations just as all candidates are looking to post big online fund-raising numbers.

Wash Post blogger Mary Ann Akers has more. A commenter there aptly likens the Edwards scheme to phishing. ...

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Allahpundit has more: Silky Pony hitting up wife’s well wishers for cash.

Posted by Bill Faith on April 5, 2007 at 02:35 PM in John Edwards, Politics | Permalink

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