Introducing John Edwards, the candidate for the common folks… just ignore the net worth nearly $30 million and the $400 haircuts, he’s still the guy that’s gonna help everyone out of poverty. In fact, he’s so eager to help college kids avoid poverty, he’s willing to come to campus to speak about it… for $55,000.

The candidate charged a whopping $55,000 to speak at to a crowd of 1,787 the taxpayer-funded University of California at Davis on Jan. 9, 2006 last year, Joe Martin, the public relations officer for the campus’ Mondavi Center confirmed Monday.
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The candidate — who was then the head of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina — chose to speak on “Poverty, the great moral issue facing America,” as his $55,000 topic at UC Davis.

But hey, maybe he’s earning some poverty offsets by talking to his housekeepers and hairstylists for free.

OTHERS:
Allah responds to Edwards’ “but-but-but-I’m-not-a-hypocrite” question:

Edwards: “So would it be better if I had done well and now I didn’t care about people who are struggling?”

Allah’s response: “No, it’d be better if you led by example, liquidated 75% of that $40 million nest egg you’re sitting on, and showed us proles how someone committed to redistribution and income equality means business.”

1. […] May 22, 2007 Posted by taoist in John Edwards, Hypocrisy. trackback John Edwards just charged $55,000 to speak to a university aboutpoverty. […]

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2. Hey, at $30.78 per student, that’s a bargin to get such an esteemed poverty fighter to speak.

   Any “poor person” who actually believes that $40-million-John-Edwards is their advocate is smoking too much crack! The only wealth Plexi-Glass-John-Edwards wants to redistribute is yours and mine - not his!

   Comment by Old Soldier — 10:44 am
   

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