Hillary Clinton's Trip To W.Va.

With Sen. Hillary Clinton slated to appear at a Charleston fundraiser next week, plans for a second event in Hardy County have fallen through, The Charleston Gazette reports.

A campaign spokesman cited "timing and logistical constraints." But the article also said that "some media outlets" had made an issue of the Hardy event's initial venue.

Would-be donors had originally hoped to host Clinton, D-N.Y., at the Guest House on Lost River. The bed and breakfast markets itself to homosexuals, the Gazette reported.

But an unidentified local organizer told the newspaper that the bed and breakfast was ruled out because attending would require a 20-minute drive from Moorefield.

Hoppy Kercheval of MetroNews' Talkline devotes his online column today to the scuttled fundraiser. Citing an email from organizer Sally Michael, Kercheval wrote that Hardy County supporters "expected to raise at least $50,000 at the event but were told by the campaign just in the last week that they needed a minimum of $150,000 to guarantee the event."