How Virginia Foxx Is Spending Her Summer Vacation

If you've got deep pockets, you can get into her general vicinity. Everyone else, not so much. Her appearances at astroturf events, like the one yesterday in Winston-Salem, don't count, since she did her three minute speech, took no questions, and retreated to the air-conditioned innards of that spiffy big bus supplied by Americans for Prosperity.

Instead of meeting with the public, here's what our highly paid, thoroughly insured, so-called "representative" in Washington will be doing:

Monday, August 17, 2009
Fundraising Lunch with Dana Perino (already noted below)

Saturday, August 22, 2009
5:30 p.m. ­-- 7:30 p.m.
Elk River Country Club
539 Banner Elk Highway
Banner Elk, North Carolina 28604
Fundraising Reception and Dinner
Featuring Special Guest Congressman John Mica (FL-07)
$1,000 Host
$500 Sponsor
$250 Co-Sponsor
$100 Attendee

Thursday, August 27, 2009
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Fundraising Reception Featuring Special Guest Rich Galen,
Nationally Recognized Conservative Commentator and former Press
Secretary to Newt Gingrich and Dan Quayle
At the Home of
William and Tina Morgan
422 West End Avenue
Statesville, North Carolina 28677
$1,000 Host
$500 Sponsor
$250 Co-Sponsor
$100 Attendee

Friday, September 25, 2009
Fundraising Reception in Winston-Salem
Details not yet finalized

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Fundraising Luncheon featuring Rep. Eric Cantor
Greensboro
Details not yet finalized