Stu Loeser, a spokesman for the mayor, did not return a request for comment.

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No one is more knowledgeable than Stu Eizenstat, a former top official at the Commerce, Treasury and State Departments and ambassador to the European Union -- and special negotiator on numerous sanctions issues and Holocaust reparations from European companies.

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Stu Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report told CNN last week that Kaine "makes a lot of sense" for Obama.

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Then came the headline event, a panel discussion with the actor, Michael Keaton, the writer, Thomas McGuane and the flyfishing legend, Stu Apte.

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