Michelle Obama visiting Boston Tuesday for husband’s final local campaign fund-raisers
Michelle Obama will visit Boston on Tuesday for a pair of fund-raisers benefitting her husband’s reelection campaign.
The first lady will attend a $20,000-per-head roundtable discussion at Via Matta restaurant across the street from the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, followed by a low-dollar event with a bigger crowd at the Park Plaza Castle.
Tickets for the “Taste of Boston” event - which will feature foods from local chefs including Will Gilson of the Herb Lyceum, Jody Adams of Rialto and Trade, and Gordon Hamersley of Hamersley’s Bistro - range from $250 per person to $2,500.
Hamersley hosted President Obama at his South End restaurant in June for his own fund-raising roundtable. The president then went on to a bigger event at Symphony Hall.
Michelle Obama’s visit - the last to Boston by a campaign surrogate before Election Day - comes as her husband’s campaign targets the neighboring swing state of New Hampshire.
The president will visit there on Saturday, while Vice President Joe Biden will campaign there on Monday.
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