We already know John Edwards is fond of the casting couch. Now he’s helping his long-suffering wife Elizabeth sell whole living-room sets!
According to WTVD in Durham, NC:
Elizabeth Edwards is now a business owner.
On Saturday, She and her husband, former NC senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, were all smiles for the grand opening of Mrs. Edwards’ new furniture store, Red Window.
The Chapel Hill store is an idea, Elizabeth Edwards said, dating back to her childhood.
“My mother had a charity store when I was growing up where she got Japanese antiques and sold them,” she said…
Elizabeth Edwards called the store a family endeavor. On hand for the opening was her assistant manager and 11-year-old daughter Emma Claire, along with John Edwards.
“I do more moving furniture than anything else,” John Edwards said. “This is Elizabeth’s deal, but everybody in the family is trying to help support her.”
Isn’t that wonderful? Positively heartwarming. There he is, moving furniture like the down-to-earth millworker’s son he is. Just the sort of guy you might want to forgive for his little indiscretions and elect President of the United States one day, right? Right.
But as Deceiver supercommenter Fortunate Son reminds us, this isn’t John’s first foray into the furniture business. As the AP reported last May:
Failed presidential candidate John Edwards, whose political action committee paid more than $100,000 to his mistress’ company, acknowledged Sunday that federal investigators were looking into how he handled his campaign funds…
“I am confident that no funds from my campaign were used improperly,” Edwards said in the statement. “However, I know that it is the role of government to ensure that this is true. We have made available to the United States both the people and the information necessary to help them get the issue resolved efficiently and in a timely matter…”
His political action committee paid Hunter’s firm $100,000 for video production in a four-month span in 2006, and then paid an additional $14,086.50 on April 1, 2007. At the time, the PAC only had $7,932.95 in cash on hand, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
That same day, according to the records, Edwards’ presidential campaign paid the PAC $14,034.61 for what is listed as a “furniture purchase.”
It’s bad enough that he treated Rielle literally like a piece of furniture. Is Elizabeth rubbing it in now?
In other Edwards news, Lee Stranahan thinks Elizabeth is still lying to protect John, and Mickey Kaus has a theory about John’s refusal to just come clean and tell us what we all know already. And the guys who started this whole ball rolling, the National Enquirer, say that Edwards is used to moving furniture by now, after moving Rielle and the baby into a house near his Wilmington mansion. Red Window, Scarlet Letter, whatever…
Yesterday at 12:30, this tweet from Meghan McCain: “Rielle Hunter’s photos in GQ magazine is [sic] possibly the most tasteless thing I have ever seen – I guess one should expect nothing less.”
Bottom line: I admit they creep me out, but it is Meghan McCain who’s calling her out…..
You might think I’m following the Brittany Murphy story a little too closely, but no one ever complained about that back in the salad days of Simon Scowl and John Edwards. I’m just sayin’.
Remember John Edwards?
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