Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is the poor man's, top tier hopeful fighting the entrenched corporate culture in Washington but he's the one getting special interest cash spent on his behalf.

   New Hampshire got a glance at that pro-Edwards advocacy with a glossy mailing sent statewide by the Alliance for a New America that hit mailboxes on Tuesday.

    This new Section 527 Committee only came onto the scene publicly on Sunday when it disclosed that it had formed a third-party advocacy group to tout the Edwards middle class agenda.

   The new alliance has already paid for more than $500,000 in radio ads for Edwards who otherwise is relying on federal matching money to make it to the Jan. 3 caucus.

   Both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton raised more than three times what Edwards has brought in to date.

   This mailing doesn't even try to look like it's issues and not the man being promoted.  The  centerfold is a fawning description of the Edwards plan to ``take on and defeat the special interests.''

   It also calls on all the Democratic candiates to be asked what are their plans for families, not Corporate America.

   Despite a fierce lobbying effort, Edwards failed to get the national endorsement of the Service Employees International Union.

    The Telegraph first reported Edwards only won the NH SEIU endorsement after an unprecedented, second ``official'' vote when the first tally went narrowly to Obama.

   Six locals of SEIU in the Midwest and West Coast banded together to finance the Iowa radio ads and this mailing according to its disclaimer.

    The Washington Post reported that a former Edwards aide and saavy, New Hampshire campaign veteran operative, Nick Baldich, is an adviser to the group.

    Late last week, another pro-Edwards 527 [-] Working for Working Families [-] began airing TV ads on tax fairness friendly to Edwards in Iowa. This group is affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.

    Will there be some go-for-broke, Democratic opponent who suggests Edwards is also entrenched, not with Big Corporate money but courtesy of Big Labor $$$?