McCain on a Lone Star swing that includes town hall meeting at Rice

With his presidential nomination largely in the bag, McCain seems to have left the Straight Talk Express bus in the garage for now and instead is jetting around the Lone Star State, largely to replenish his campaign war chest.

He has scheduled a series of fund-raisers beginning tonight at the River Oaks home of Meg Goodman, in which the entry fee is $2,300 for individual and $4,600 for a couple. He also hopes to rake in the big bucks tommorrow at events in Fort Worth and Dallas and on Friday in Austin.

But McCain will take some time tomorrow morning, Feb. 28, to hold a more substantive event at Rice University, where he has scheduled a town hall meeting at 8:45 am at Baker Hall.

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