Former Senator John Edwards is ratcheting up the pressure on his Democratic rivals on the issue of accepting campaign contributions from lobbyists, as he seeks to highlight a distinction between himself and several other candidates in advance of ABC's Democratic debate Sunday in Iowa.
Edwards, D-N.C., on Thursday sent a letter to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to join him in calling on the Democratic Party to stop accepting lobbyists' contributions. Both Edwards and Obama have refused to accept money from federally registered lobbyists during their campaigns for the presidency -- a position that puts them at odds with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
"Lobbyists are at the core of the way the system is rigged against regular folks," Jonathan Prince, Edwards' deputy campaign manager, said in a conference call with reporters. "Let's take that money out of the process."
Edwards wants Obama to join him in calling for the Democratic National Committee as well as the party's House and Senate fundraising arms to reject lobbyists donations going forward.
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