Edwards Pal Touted Cash Over Plastic

There’s a great local quote in this morning’s story about John Edwards’ handlers scrambling to funnel hush money to Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter. It evidently originated with Edwards’ old pal Fred Baron, the Dallas plaintiff’s lawyer and Democratic Party rainmaker who died in 2008:

Other distributions came from Edwards’ former campaign finance chairman Fred Baron, including a FedEx envelope of $1,000 and a note that read: “Old Chinese proverb: Use cash, not credit cards.”