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Fast food. Fast votes. Fast tour.
Posted at: Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 03:06 PM
After showing up at an Atlanta polling station early Tuesday, Sen. John Edwards’ motorcade stopped at a McDonald’s before heading to the airport. A six-seater Hawk business jet whisked him to Washington, where Edwards took a break as presidential contender and returned to his job as U.S. senator from North Carolina.
With sirens howling and lights flashing, Edwards’ motorcade delivered him to his office in the Dirksen building. An hour later he was on the Senate floor for a vote on gun legislation. He chatted briefly with rival John Kerry but avoided reporters’ questions about the voting going on in 10 states Tuesday.
Then he was back in a car on his way back to the airport. Lunch was at Wendy’s in Alexandria, where Edwards’ chief of staff Miles Lackey dashed in for a few hamburgers. No word on whether they were singles or doubles; with or without cheese.
— Moni Basu, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
