Biden to visit Twin Cities next week for fundraiser

Article by: KEVIN DIAZ , Star Tribune
Updated: October 6, 2009 - 2:15 PM

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WASHINGTON --- Vice President Joe Biden is traveling to the Twin Cities next week for a fundraising dinner at the Edina home of Robert Pohlad, the son of the late Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad.

The younger Pohlad, scion of the family business empire, is hosting the $7,500-a-plate dinner with the Democratic National Committee and its grassroots organizing arm, Organizing for America.

Biden, the Obama administration’s point-man on the $787 billion economic stimulus package, is scheduled to headline the event next Thursday evening, according to an invitation obtained by the Star Tribune.

The trip will be Biden’s second visit to the state as vice president, following his trip last March to the New Flyer bus manufacturing plant in St. Cloud, which was expected to see a boost in orders from stimulus spending.

The company, however, still experienced layoffs this summer.

Pohlad has been a major campaign contributor in recent years to a number of Democratic candidates, including Obama. He also has given money to Republicans Norm Coleman and Jim Ramstad, according to federal election records. He contributed $50,000 to Obama’s inauguration.