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Ray LaHood mentions St. Cloud on 'Daily Show'

Transportation secretary talks trains, vows to keep day job.

December 16, 2009 at 6:04PM

The U.S. transportation secretary paid a visit to Comedy Central last night. I can't embed the clip with this blogware, so you'll have to click here. It's also on a USDOT page here, with a few additional LaHood comments.

Meanwhile, on the Roadguy Twitter feed, I mentioned that LaHood only has twice as many Facebook fans as I do, even though he's more than twice as famous than I am. Click here to help me catch up.

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