Wal-Mart Opponents Said Headed for Edwards Staff

WASHINGTON — Two leaders of the union-funded activist group Wake Up Wal-Mart are reportedly leaving to join John Edwards’ presidential campaign. Chris Kofinis, the public relations director of Wake Up Wal-Mart, told SN Friday he was vacationing and would not comment until today. Several reports said Friday that Kofinis, along with Paul Blank, Wake Up Wal-Mart’s campaign director, would fill senior posts on the Edwards staff. Kofinis previously was communications director for presidential hopeful Wesley Clark in 2004. Blank worked for Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004. Wake Up Wal-Mart is funded by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union here.

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