He won’t be arriving as a United States Senator, he won’t be throwing the first pitch at the All-Stars game and he definitely won’t be traveling without style the next time he arrives in St. Louis.
On the contrary, President Barack Obama will be arriving in the one of the classiest modes of transportation, and he will be here to support a fellow Democrat.
“The White House confirms that President Obama will be in St. Louis on March 10,” Shin Inouye, director of Specialty Media for the White House Office of Media Affairs, said.
Traveling via Air Force One, Obama will be attending a fundraiser event for Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill.
Though she is not up for reelection as a United States Senator until 2012, McCaskill is beginning to start the fundraising process early.
An official location for the fundraising event has not yet been disclosed, but it has been rumored that the Chaifetz Arena is a venue of interest.
Calls and emails from The University News to McCaskill’s office have gone unreturned in order to confirm or deny this rumor. However, the Chaifetz event schedule has nothing planned for March 10.
Whether or not the president comes to Saint Louis University, College Democrats Vice President Thomas Bloom is anticipating the mid-March arrival.
“It’s exciting, but we don’t know how involved we will be,” Bloom said.
Bloom also stated that College Democrats is working with people in order to see how viable it would be for members of the organization to volunteer for the event.