Unneighborly
The next-door neighbor of John and Elizabeth Edwards says the Democratic presidential candidate and his wife owe him an apology.
Mrs. Edwards recently referred to Monty Johnson, who lives near the Edwards' mammoth mansion outside Chapel Hill, N.C., as a "rabid Republican," adding that she didn't want her children near him because, she said, he once pulled a gun on workers investigating a right of way on his property.
That prompted two lawyers to phone Mr. Johnson, offering to represent him in a slander case, the local News & Observer newspaper reports, but the 55-year-old retired landscaper said he's not interested in suing.
"I'd just like to know why she has such hard feelings to me," he said. "They say they're for poor people."
Newspapers from as far away as Ireland have picked up the story. On Tuesday, "Inside Edition" sent a film crew to his single-wide trailer in rural Orange County that sits near the Edwards' $6 million, 29,000-square-foot estate.
Mr. Johnson didn't rebut Mrs. Edwards' comments, the newspaper said. He's a proud member of the Republican Party and owns a 9 mm handgun he said he's not afraid to use.
Mr. Johnson said he doesn't have hard feelings toward Mrs. Edwards, but he does expect her to say she's sorry.
"I think she owes me an apology," he said. "And I won't feel right until I get it." |
