Bonior joins Edwards presidential campaign

The Detriot News reports:

Former Michigan congressman David Bonior will lead Democrat John Edwards' presidential campaign, according to media reports Tuesday, a move that would help cement Edwards' status as the favored candidate for organized labor and put Bonior back in the center of Democratic Party politics.

The Associated Press and the online Hotline newsletter, both citing anonymous sources, said Bonior will become a senior adviser to Edwards' One America Committee, a political action committee that forms the kernel of Edwards' as-yet undeclared campaign effort. The reports said Bonior would be campaign manager if, as is widely believed, Edwards declares himself a presidential candidate for 2008.

Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, unsuccessfully ran for the 2004 Democratic nomination and was named John Kerry's running mate. Since the election, he has traveled widely, written a book and been one of the Democratic Party's most vocal advocates for aid to the working poor. Bonior, who represented a congressional district centered in Macomb County for 26 years, is one of the party's closest allies of organized labor.

David Bonier feels at home at a Democratic Socialists for America meeting.