It is sad for former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards that he was indicted Friday on felony charges. He is accused of giving cash from his campaign to his mistress. It is even sadder for America that with the real problems we have as a country that we are wasting taxpayer money and government time on this indictment.
The six counts Edwards was charged with are not lightweight charges. Accepting and receiving illegal campaign donations is serious, and if you are going to get those contributions illegally then of course you are going to conceal it, hence two more indictments.
We can't be having Presidential candidates breaking the law, of that there is no question.
My concern is on two fronts: How is it that John Edwards can't conceal cash to his campaign and yet the Supreme Court found in the Citizen's United case last year that it was perfectly legal to have interest groups/corporations provide campaign cash and not having to disclose where the cash is coming from.
It is much more damaging to the democratic process to have piles of money influencing the elections than a private donor like Bunny Mellon's money going to support a love child.
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How is it that John Edwards can't conceal cash to his campaign and yet the Supreme Court found in the Citizen's United case last year that it was perfectly legal to have interest groups/corporations provide campaign cash and not having to disclose where the cash is coming from.
Exactly.
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John Edwards took campaign money and gave it to his mistress to silence her about his love child.
Campaign money is for campaigning, not for personal use.
Corporations and interest groups have every right in this country to donate money to political campaigns, just like the big union thugs force the rank and file to give them money which they hand over to dumbocrats
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These campaign contribution laws have all been created by the various legislatures in relatively recent years. In the past one was always free to give one's own assets to another person. Once given the property generally belonged to that other person. My view on this is if you are of a mind to give money to a politician, you deserve what you get. It should belong to the politician without an infinite number of liberal dictated regulations as to how the politician spends it. I don't approve of the sexual affair but the donor's gave the money. They were not forced. Just don't vote for him; don't give him any more money or possibly go complain about it to the public in the media, but don't make this a feloiny. It doen't belong in the criminal courts. In this country as soon as one takes a campaign donation, this mass of government regulation kicks in. It's rediculous. It makes a reasonable person want to tell the government to "kiss off". In this case you have a Republican holdover US Attorney who has been allowed to stay on and finish an obvious political prosecution. Edwards contends that in this case he contacted close friends and asked them help him out, as he was in a very untenable situation and that the money given was not a political donation. It was a gift from a friend trying to help a friend. The United States says it was an illegal secret political donation. This case should go to trial. A jury will never convict him and shouldn't. Just so you know, I am a very Conservative Republican, sympathic to the Tea Party. I don't like these laws. The whole idea that a friend can't make a gift to a friend without the government claiming that it is a political contribution is absurd. The government deserves to loose.
I dunno...Change his hair color???
And anyhoo, who cares? (what we do with him)
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