NEW HAVEN — Former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards rallied several hundred people Thursday in a rousing populist speech for U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont, telling the crowd Americans are eager for change and real leaders.
"This campaign, including the primary election, is about change. It is what America is hungry for," said Edwards, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina. "America no longer wants the same old politics that they have now seen for decades.
"They are looking for not politicians, but leaders. They are looking for somebody who will tell them the truth about what is happening in America today and somebody who has a different vision for where America needs to go. The man who is telling the truth and the man who will provide that vision in the next United States Senate from Connecticut is Ned Lamont," Edwards said to cheers from the crowd gathered on the lawn of Yale University’s medical campus on Cedar Street.
His appearance was sponsored by the Lamont campaign and Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, which is trying to organize 1,800 workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Edwards has spent the last year going around the country with an anti-poverty message and is expected to be a presidential candidate in 2008.
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