Carly Burns, a 20-year-old recent University of Oregon graduate from Granite Bay, Calif., got a surprise phone call yesterday morning from none other than Vice President Joe Biden, reports the Sacramento Bee. Biden visited California yesterday for a campaign event.
“Hello, this is Vice President Joe Biden,” the caller said.
She thought it was a joke.
It wasn’t.
Carly’s mother and father, Dina and Michael Burns, the latter a partner in KP Public Affairs, had shaken Biden’s hand minutes earlier at a fundraiser in the Sutter Club. They mentioned that their daughter had just graduated from the University of Oregon, had studied abroad in Tunisia, had been inspired by him, and had kept a newspaper from Election Day 2008 on the wall of her room.
“He said, ‘Oh, get her on the phone,'” Dina recalled.
Biden congratulated Carly on her graduation, asked what she planned to do this summer, and quipped that her studies in the Middle East might come in handy for the Obama administration.
