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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
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An Atlanta vote for Edwards
Posted at: Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 10:19 AM
Sen. John Edwards got in one last lick at campaigning for the Democratic
presidential nomination this morning when he visited a polling place in
southwest Atlanta.
Reporters and photographers outnumbered voters when the North Carolina
senator made a quick visit to the Quality Living Service Center, a senior
citizens’ center, just off Cascade Rd.
But he won at least one vote just by showing up.
Christel (cq) Jackson, 41, an actuarial analyst , said she had been
undecided when she arrived at the polling place with her 5-year-old son at 8
a.m.
But she was voting for Edwards. “He came to my community and that made it
personal for me,” she said, adding that she had also received a phone call
from a “live person” in the Edwards campaign seeking her vote.
—Matthew C. Quinn, Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff writer
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Lord of the jobs
Posted at: Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 10:15 AM
Kerry, who stayed up late Sunday night watching the 11-Oscar sweep by “Lord of the Rings,” praised the movie’s director for creating thousands of jobs while filming J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy.
“Peter Jackson said that he used 25,000 extras in ‘Lord of the Rings,’” Kerry said at Ohio State on Monday, referring to the director’s comments during his Oscar acceptance speech. ‘‘Did you know that? He has created 25,000 more jobs than George Bush has, ladies and gentleman. We ought to give him more than an Oscar.”
Only thing is, most of those jobs were in Jackson’s native New Zealand where filming took place.
The director is also building a new movie production center in the capital of Wellington, which is sure to create many more jobs … for Kiwis.
— The Associated Press
