Edwards on Equal Rights (from his blog)

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Monday December 01, @02:53PM
Posted by John Edwards

In a blog in early November I mentioned a woman whose Iranian-American husband was having a hard time finding work to support his family. He had been laid off and was getting no call backs at all. In Derry, New Hampshire, on Saturday I learned more about him and learned that a boss had told him that "with your name," Mary-Beth Zahedi’s husband is named Kavous Zahedi, "you’re never going to get ahead here, and if you don’t like it, then quit." Mr. Zahedi didn’t quit, but he changed his name to Bruce, Bruce Zahedi is what everyone calls him now except his wife, and then he was laid off anyway. Since I met Mary-Beth a few weeks ago, things have gotten worse. Back then I said I wanted to help, and Saturday in Derry someone called me on that promise. At an open house in Derry, Karen Thulin asked what had happened to the woman with the Iranian-American husband, and since Mary Beth was there in the room, she spoke for herself. She gave me her support, and she gave it with heart. She spoke of how my staff had helped her and how they had advised her and her husband about filing a civil rights grievance. Mary-Beth Zahedi is a remarkable woman, a member of the board of the New Hampshire March of Dimes in New Hampshire and always getting her husband up at 5:00 a.m. or even earlier for another Walk America event. What impressed me most about them was their sons. Nick and Christian Zahedi spent Thanksgiving Day at a local soup kitchen—and they spent the day there exactly one week before their father will pack up his car and drive cross-country alone, and then do what he can to set up a new life and make some money. Without the people who are his life. A graduate of the University of Maine at Orono, and a member of the Derry town planning board, he will leave his family in New Hampshire, temporarily he hopes, for a job in Santa Clarita, California, the only city where he could find work as an electrical engineer. Yet Mary-Beth and Kavous Zahedi have raised two teenage sons who still feel thankful for all the good in their lives, and so they left their mother and father at home on Thanksgiving day and went to work in a soup kitchen with people who have less or almost nothing. Their mother and father were proud of them.

President Bush has not protected the civil rights and equal rights of all Americans. "We have built a beautiful life," Mary-Beth said on Saturday, but now she is frightened. I’m proud of the support of people like Mary-Beth, and when I am President I promise to do everything I can to make the life of their family whole again.

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1. There is one really good thing if Edwards becomes President

he would scare the crap out of every single polluter, HMO, and Pharmas. Why? He is a trial lawyer of course.

I don't think Edwards can be underestimated during the primaries.