Edwards Reimbuses Campaign for Haircuts
Apr 19 11:33 AM US/Eastern
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat John Edwards is trying to get out of a hairy situation, reimbursing his presidential campaign $800 for two visits with a Beverly Hills stylist.
Two $400 cuts by stylist Joseph Torrenueva, who told The Associated Press that the former North Carolina senator is a longtime client, showed up on Edwards' campaign spending reports filed this weekend. Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz said it never should have been there.
"The bill was sent to the campaign. It was inadvertently paid," Schultz said. "John Edwards will be reimbursing the campaign."
Edwards is also the subject of a popular YouTube spoof poking fun at his youthful good looks. The video shows the candidate combing his tresses to the dubbed-in tune of "I Feel Pretty."
Federal Election Commission records show Edwards' campaign also spent $250 in services from Designworks Salon in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 in services from the Pink Sapphire in Manchester, N.H.
Schultz said those services were legitimate campaign expenditures to prepare Edwards for media appearances.
Political candidates often have hair and makeup done before media appearances. Edwards rival Hillary Rodham Clinton got some attention last year when her campaign paid $2,500 for two hairstyling sessions that the campaign classified as media production expenses.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has no medical problems, according to a letter from his doctor.
Edwards' doctor, W.L. Wells Edmundson, said the 2004 vice presidential nominee had a physical on April 10 that showed he is in "excellent health and free of illness."
"Mr. Edwards was found to be in superb physical shape, reflective of a healthy diet and his habit of a daily four mile run," Edmundson said in a statement released by the campaign.
The letter allows Edwards to concentrate his health concerns on his wife, Elizabeth, who is fighting a return of the breast cancer that she thought she had beat but has spread to her bones.
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