Meet Chris The Baker

The story of Joe the Plumber, famous for his encounter with then-candidate Obama in 2008, now has a worthy sequel.  Yesterday in Radford, Virginia, the owner of the recently-opened bakery Crumb and Get It, Chris McMurray, politely declined an opportunity to host a media event for Vice President Joe Biden.  Instead, Biden appeared at the nearby River Street Grill, before continuing on to a scheduled speaking event at Virginia Tech, which is located in Blacksburg, about 10 miles east of Radford.  In response to McMurray's decision not to host the vice president, local customers arrived in numbers sufficient to cause the bakery to run out of food around 1:15 p.m.

Read the story in the Roanoke Times and WLBJ7.  In a further development reported by the Washington Examiner, some Secret Service agents bought a bunch of McMurray's cupcakes.