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Edwards in new White House bid
28/12/2006 12:15 - (SA)
New Orleans - John Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2004, is launches a White House run on Thursday using a poor New Orleans neighbourhood ravaged by Hurricane Katrina as a backdrop for his populist message.
Edwards opens his campaign among the debris and wreckage of the city's lower ninth ward, which was wiped out in last year's hurricane and where the storm's mostly poor victims are struggling to rebuild.
The former North Carolina senator has said the aftermath of Katrina and the poverty of its victims illustrate his 2004 campaign references to "two Americas" - one for the comfortable and another for the struggling.
Wants to end poverty in 30 years
Edwards has proposed a series of work, housing and school measures aimed at lifting millions of Americans out of poverty in the next 10 years, and called for a goal of ending poverty within 30 years.
He is the third candidate to formally jump into a Democratic presidential race where he ultimately might have to compete for money and support with senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois.
Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and Ohio Representative. Dennis Kucinich are the other Democrats that have officially entered the race.
- Reuters
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