GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE TO MAKE CAMPAIGN STOP IN COLUMBIA FRIDAY

For the first time since winning the state’s Republican presidential primary in January en route to the party’s nomination, Sen. John McCain will be visiting South Carolina. The McCain campaign has just sent out invitations to a 5 p.m. fundraiser this Friday, May 9 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

But if you want to attend the event with the man who may be the next president, it won’t be cheap. Tickets start at $1,000 for the general reception and to be a co-chairman, the most exclusive spot at the event, someone will have had to raise or contributed at least $20,000.

Most notably, all of South Carolina’s Republican leaders will be in attendance including Gov. Mark Sanford — who took a major political risk and endorsed McCain in early March when it was only a 99.9 percent certainty that the Arizona senator would get the GOP nod — both of the state’s U.S. Senators, all four Republican Congressmen, the lieutenant governor, four statewide elected officials and a number of the folks who were with McCain from the beginning like House Speaker Bobby Harrell.

I’m guessing this will probably be the last time McCain is in South Carolina for a while. It will probably also be the last time for a while that McCain and Sanford are in a room together. Let’s go ahead and assume that will be a LONG WHILE.

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