Dem' Latest Campaign Lure: Coffee With Joe Biden

$3 donation earns a chance for trip
By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 6, 2012 8:05 AM CDT
Dem' Latest Campaign Lure: Coffee With Joe Biden
Vice President Joe Biden's latest appeal for cash is offering to fly you and a guest to Washington to have coffee with him.   (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

Three dollars is about what your average Starbucks latte costs, but in the Obama re-election campaign, that same $3 might just get you a cup of coffee with Joe Biden—not to mention airfare and a hotel room for the trip, reports USA Today. Called, unsurprisingly, "A Cup of Joe With Joe," Biden calls the contest a "grassroots" fundraising effort to fight back against Mitt Romney's "unprecedented" spending. It's a little more low-key than a dinner with celebs—or maybe you'd prefer to sign over your wedding registry? (More Barack Obama stories.)

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