With the Iowa caucuses inching ever closer, former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., picked up an endorsement from a prominent Iowan lawyer on Sunday: the Hawkeye State’s first lady.
Mari Culver, wife of Gov. Chet Culver, told the Des Moines Register that she was immediately impressed by Edwards’ intellect and accomplishments as a trial lawyer when she met him in 2001. She supports his plans to fight poverty and to reform health care.
“I think John is a winner. He’s electable,” she said. “He’s been tested. He’s been on the national ticket before. The national polls show him beating all Republicans in the general elections. He inspires me. I think he inspires other Iowans, and I think he can really rally Americans in the fall.”
Also, two actors have lent their support to Edwards’ campaign, but they might not pack as much political wallop as having Oprah in your corner.
Politically active movie star Tim Robbins joined Edwards on a bus tour across Iowa this week, and actor Kevin Bacon is trying to leverage his “six-degrees-of-separation” fame by starting a chain e-mail to get the other 6.7 billion world residents to view a newly launched Edwards campaign movie trailer.
“Corporate greed and political calculation have taken over our government and sold out the middle class,” he told a crowd in Ames. “Our government is selling out their future at the command of lobbyists and their corporate clients and we have to rise up together and stop it.”
Recent in-depth profiles in Newsweek and the Washington Post both focused on Edwards’ work ethic and his own up-by-the-bootstraps success story.
His summer job at a textile mill in college helped him realize that he wanted a different life, according to the Post article.
“It was the nastiest job,” Edwards said. “I cleaned out overhead in the weave room. There was junk everywhere. I was climbing around up there, then I mopped the grease up from under the looms.”
As the early voting nears, the folks at Politico have drawn up some helpful tips for hosting a primary party for Edwards supporters. They suggest pouring a Chapel Hill — a concoction of bourbon, triple sec and lemon juice — with “I Feel Pretty” blaring on your stereo.
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