Scathing Washington Post editorial (Jan. 23) about a rather gaping hole in Sen. Edwards’s claim to be the candidate free from entanglements with all those dreadful Special Interests. “Mr. Edwards — alone among the serious candidates for president — declines to provide a list of his major campaign financiers: the men and women who have not only the capability to write $2,000 checks themselves but the networks that allow them to harvest bigger bundles for their favored candidates.” Sen. Edwards has in fact raised a larger proportion of his campaign warchest in $2,000 donations than any of his Democratic rivals, and his refusal to disclose the details of his financial operation is of particular interest because of stories like the one we covered May 8, which suggest that some of his patrons may have much they are interested in concealing about the exact manner in which those $2,000 checks came to be written and bundled. For more on Edwards’s fund-raising, see Aug. 5; Jul. 18, 2002; May 1-2, 2002; Apr. 7-8.

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