Edwards earns union support, details $1.5B plan for native SC

Associated Press Writer
Published Tuesday, January 22, 2008

CONWAY, S.C. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday won the endorsement of one of South Carolina's largest unions as he gave details of an economic plan his campaign said would offer his native state's struggling economy $1.5 billion in relief.

"Our country is no longer on the brink of a recession. I think we're in one," Edwards said during a conference call with reporters on Tuesday, a day after a testy debate between the Democratic candidates.

Meanwhile, the state's chapter of the Communications Workers of America gave the former North Carolina senator its support. With one of the nation's lowest unionization rates, the nod is a win for Edwards but one unlikely to seriously alter a primary most hotly contested by New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

The union has more than 2,200 active members and more than 1,700 retired members in South Carolina.

During an earlier stop at a peanut warehouse here, Edwards told a crowd of about 300 people gathered in an aging peanut warehouse that bickering between Clinton and Obama doesn't help people in need. He said that instead of focusing on the ups and downs of Wall Street, the government needs to focus on what's happening in people's lives.

"I was proud to represent the grown-up wing of the Democratic Party," he told the cheering crowd.

"When all those kinds of personal attacks are going on, it doesn't do a thing to help somebody get health care who doesn't have it," Edwards said. "It doesn't do a thing to help our kids get the education they need. We have work to do in this country."

South Carolina's unemployment rate hit 6.6 percent in December, the largest one-month increase in nearly 20 years.

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Nice one. :)

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I'm glad he's getting some good Union recognition. :hi:

:bounce:

HIP, HIP HOORAY! HIP, HIP HOORAY! HIP, HIP HOORAY!

don't deign to answer all the attack posts .
it just perpetuates them .
do like John , keep positive and on point.
they want nastiness, don't drink the kool aid!
let them wallow in their own filth!
they seem to enjoy it!


be better than the rest, GO JOHN!

Edwards needs to get over 20% in SC to make a credible showing--I think he will.