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Rybak To Speak To Mississippi Democrats

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will speak Aug. 9 at the Mississippi Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson-Hamer Dinner.

The event will be held at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Jackson at 6:30 p.m. The dinner is the Mississippi party's signature annual fundraising event.

Rybak is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Rybak was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 2001 in his first run for public office and was re-elected in 2005 and 2009. Rybak has announced he is not running for re-election this year.

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