While in Minnesota to raise $$$, Gov. Pawlenty says McCain “eats cheese curds like a monster.”
The AP reported on Thursday on Senator McCain’s fundraising visit to Minnesota. Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been playing a key role in McCain’s campaign, and with his popularity in the upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa all being in play for 2008), he is often mentioned on the short list for a McCain vice-presidential selection. Here is the full text, from the CBS affiliate in nearby La Crosse, Wisconsin:
ST. PAUL (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain got a warm welcome in Minnesota this evening from Governor Tim Pawlenty.
McCain visited Minnesota to raise money at a St. Paul home, where a private reception went for $2,300 a head and general admission was $1,000 per person.
Pawlenty has made five trips this year to Iowa, Michigan and New Hampshire as a national co-chairman of McCain’s campaign.
McCain called Pawlenty “one of the real rising stars in the Republican Party,” even as he deflected yet another question about picking the Minnesota governor as his running mate.
Pawlenty talked up McCain’s skills at consuming one of the delicacies of the Minnesota State Fair, which the duo visited in 2004. He says McCain “eats cheese curds like a monster.”
Read the original article here. Hat tip to Race2008.com for finding the story.
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