John Edwards Denies Affair With Campaign Worker
LA Times:
Former Sen. John Edwards tonight denied a story in the National Enquirer that he had an extramarital affair with a former campaign worker who followed him on numerous trips around the country.
Without naming the woman, the supermarket tabloid reported online today that “Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught in a shocking mistress scandal that could wreck his campaign.” The paper’s only source is an unnamed friend of the woman who says the two met at a New York bar about 18 months ago. The newspaper quotes the woman as saying, “Sparks flew immediately. She never expected it would turn sexual since John is married and is running for president. But it soon did–and she fell for him.”
The Associated Press reported this evening that Edwards told reporters, “The story is false. It’s completely untrue, ridiculous.” He said the story was “made-up.”
“I’ve been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years,” Edwards added, about his wife Elizabeth, who is suffering from incurable cancer, “and as anybody who’s been around us knows, she’s an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story’s just false.”
According to the Enquirer’s unnamed female source, the campaign worker developed a crush on Edwards, which blossomed into romance. “They got together whenever they could, mostly at hotels where Edwards and his campaign staff stayed,” the anonymous friend is quoted as saying.
She also is quoted: “As the affair went on, she said that both she and John began to feel real guilty and they decided to end it.”
The Enquirer said that the woman herself would not respond to their queries or visits to her house.
Also today, Sam Stein of the Huffington Post posted an article and photograph about a woman named Rielle Hunter, also known as Lisa Druck. According to the article, Hunter was an aspiring actress/filmmaker who met Edwards in a New York bar and proposed filming a series of Web episodes on the inside workings of his campaign to show “the real John Edwards.”
According to a Newsweek online article last December, Hunter traveled widely with Edwards, filming from Iowa to Africa and producing a series of webisodes, which Newsweek cited as evidence of Edwards’ new campaign Web savvy. Each Web episode began with a themed shot that lingers on Edwards’ backside as he tucks his shirt into his trousers.
The Huffington Post article says Edwards’ One America Committee, dedicated to combating poverty, paid the 44-year-old Hunter $114,461 for the film work last year. But this last spring, shortly after declaring his candidacy, the Edwards campaign removed all the film from public view. Some has since shown up on YouTube.
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October 11th, 2007 at 9:02 pmThe only affair Edwards has had is with himself. I could just see him in a torrid affair in some hotel room, screaming in the throes of passion, “DON’T MESS UP MY HAIR!”
October 11th, 2007 at 9:12 pm“Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught in a shocking mistress scandal that could wreck his campaign.”
are you kidding me? hardly! having an extramarital affair as a democrat has become a rite of passage since clinton’s numerous ones were exposed. since he’s a dhimmacrat, the feminists will give him a pass since he is “right on the issues” according to them.
Nothing will stop this idiot from becoming the “nations first female president”
October 11th, 2007 at 10:45 pmI’m waiting for Rush Limbaugh to get in trouble for calling Edwards a “phony husband”.
October 11th, 2007 at 11:25 pmWhen I saw the subject line about herself having an affair with a campaign worker, my first thought was, “So what’s his name?”
October 12th, 2007 at 1:37 amThe Associated Press reported this evening that Edwards told reporters, “The story is false. It’s completely untrue, ridiculous.” He said the story was “made-up.”
I guess like the story about the war on terror. You know the one. When Edwards said that it was nothing more than a slogan on a bumper sticker.
I was a little confused with the part of the article that said Hunter traveled widely with Edwards, filming from Iowa to Africa and producing a series of webisodes, which Newsweek cited as evidence of Edwards’ new campaign Web savvy.
My question is, why is he campaigning in Africa
The other question I have is the part were it said that each Web episode began with a themed shot that lingers on Edwards’ backside as he tucks his shirt into his trousers. What the hell does that have to do with campaigning
I don’t know. Maybe that’s just his way of bragging that he did get lucky with the campaign worker
Now that would make sense 
October 12th, 2007 at 2:42 amclinton inc. at work….
imagine what is in store for the republican canidate
October 12th, 2007 at 4:20 amYeah, I agree with Steve in N.C. That’s the Klintonista leg-breaking machine at work. Not that I care about Pretty Boy Floyd or anything.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:18 am… Am I the only one who is thinking, ‘it’s the National Inquirer, who cares?’ That paper is about as credible as The Onion. I don’t know why Edwards is even bothering to deny it. Ridiculous. Politics is effectively an entertainment industry, and Americans are the endless butt of the joke.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:25 amThe Breck Girl Had An Affair ???
October 12th, 2007 at 8:27 amDid She have a C%*K !!!
It was helpful that you quoted this early on, as it allowed readers to see how the LAT was monkeying with blog posts.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:25 pm