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Robert Pohlad will host Joe Biden next week
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Vice President Joe Biden will travel to the Twin Cities next week for a fundraising dinner at the home of Robert Pohlad, 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 in Edina 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. That plant expected to see a boost in orders from stimulus spending, but it had to have 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. Pohlad contributed $50,000 to Obama's inauguration.
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