Edwards responds to Dean's SC speech from Sunday [View All]

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Senator Edwards released the following statement Sunday in response to Governor Howard Dean's speech in Columbia, South Carolina:

"While we all agree on the need to bring working class people of all races together to fight for better jobs, health care and education, coming to the South during the Sunday church hour to tell Southerners what they should believe is not the way to reach out to Southern Democratic voters.

"Democrats like Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt won in the South by running campaigns based on solid values and progressive ideas that would help lift all Americans, regardless of the color of their skin or economic background. As a Southerner and North Carolinian, I am proud of that tradition.

"I have no intention of ceding the values debate to George Bush -- anywhere in America. His values are not America's values and Democrats cannot be scared to take him on. There is only one way to win this fight, and that is by taking it directly to George Bush in every region of the country."

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