Mitt Romney set to take over Fenway Park and the Banknorth Garden for fundraising gigs

By Arborway - 6/14/07 - 11:27 pm

Look who's coming to town...

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign will commandeer Fenway Park and a Boston arena for a night and a day late next week for a major last-minute fundraising extravanganza. It even has a fancy title: "America's Calling."

And once again, reporters are invited.

A couple hundred Romney supporters will attend the official National Call Day on the 25th after a massive bar-b-que at Fenway on the 24th.They'll be seated around tables on the parquet floor of the Boston Garden (er, the TD Banknorth Garden, a bastard child of the old Bank of Boston, Bay Bank, North Bank, Bank North and TD Waterhouse), home of the Celtics, with the charge of raising $5K each. The campaign hopes to raise at least $2.5M, according to one Republican familiar with the goals.

The first 100 to sign up will get their hotel rooms comped.

Admission is $5,000, per the invitations.

One can imagine this will probably entail large-scale, intrusive security measures - measures that have a good chance of making travel through Boston a bit more hellish than usual.