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High level Democratic Party sources told the Tribune on Friday morning that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama will announce plans later today to speak at the Mansfield-Metcalf dinner April 5.
Sources say Obama, who will to travel to the state after a visit to South Dakota on April 4, will make his first stop in Missoula for a rally at the University of Montana before moving on to Butte for the 30th Annual Mansfield-Metcalf dinner, the Montana Democratic Party’s largest fundraiser [John Adams, "Obama to Announce Montana Visit," Great Falls Tribune, 2008.03.14].
Now those high-level party sources haven't contacted the Madville Times yet to confirm. The Obama SD website says nothing about the April 4 South Dakota visit, and I haven't been able to Google anything out of the South Dakota press on this trip.
But hey: the South Dakotans for Obama group just had its opening press conference yesterday (go, Nathan!). And as has been the case in other small states, Obama beats Clinton to getting an event on the calendar and boots on the ground. According to that Sioux Falls paper, the Clinton website doesn't even have contact information for South Dakota supporters (as of this morning, that's true), and Clinton campaign staff wouldn't even bother to return the Sioux Falls reporter's calls [Jonathan Ellis, "Formal Obama Group Blooms," that Sioux Falls paper, 2008.03.18].
Once again, of the two Dems we have to choose from, Obama is the one acting like South Dakota matters.
Thanks for the heads-up. We missed an opportunity to buy tickets this morning to the April 5th Montana demos Mansfield-Metcalf dinner. The 2,400 tickets sold out in 15 minutes.
ReplyDeleteNorth Dakota has bragging rights that Obama is speaking at their demo convention in Grand Forks on April 4th at 5:30. So I'm wondering whether the Great Falls reporter confused the Dakotas. It wouldn't be a unique error. http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=71149§ion=homepage
So is Obama visiting SD? If so when?
Thanks, Anon -- once again, SD suffers from mistaken identity. Still no word on an Obama visit to SD -- let's keep our fingers crossed for McGovern Day on April 19 (although that's awfully close to the Pennsylvania primary).
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