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July 31, 2008

Edwards Pulls Plug on Scholarship Program

Now that he's no longer running for President, ambulance-chasing metrosexual John Edwards no longer needs so much publicity — in fact, he must be very grateful to the mainstream media for sparing him from it. Consequently, he's pulling the plug on a scholarship program intended to prove how much he cares about that "other America" that isn't populated by zillionaire trial lawyers:

Edwards started the "College for Everyone" pilot program at Greene Central High in 2005, shortly after he was the Democratic vice presidential nominee. It was a privately funded effort designed to increase the number of students at a rural high school who attend college.

The program provided the cost of tuition, fees and books at a public college for one year. In exchange, students had to work at least 10 hours a week while in college, take college preparatory courses in high school and stay out of trouble.

The program cost a total of $600,000 for the first two years and helped 190 students go to such colleges as East Carolina University, Lenoir Community College and N.C. State University.

$600,000? Why, for that Silky Pony could get 1,500 of his $400 haircuts, almost enough to last him to the next election. That's when he's likely to start the program up again, no doubt to great fanfare from the same media that's ignoring this story.

Hat tip: NewsBusters; on a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at July 31, 2008 9:04 AM

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Posted by: on-the-rocks at July 31, 2008 11:15 AM