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From the Times-Picayune
Until Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards drove onto Delery Street Sunday night, the three children had been tossing a football in front of their grandmother's FEMA trailer. Flip-flops slapping on the concrete street, they ran down Delery, toward the moving huddle of cameras topped by three big fuzzy boom microphones.
"Who is he?" they asked, pointing at Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, who calmly walked in the eye of the huddle with Tanya Harris, an activist with ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Just as the light was fading, the former North Carolina senator arrived at Delery Street in the Lower 9th Ward with two vanfuls of national and foreign reporters. The lightning-quick visit to Delery, followed by a tour of the nearby Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School, were the first stops in a three-day, eight-state "Road to One America Tour" that will focus on poverty in America, one of the senator's key issues. More
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