As fellow North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad faces questions about why he took a cushy “VIP loan” from a disgraced mortgage company executive to purchase a home he never reported on public disclosure forms, at-large Representative Earl Pomeroy readies himself for a $2,500/person fund raiser at a posh Pennsylvania resort:

BISMARCK — U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., is hosting a $2,500-per-head campaign fundraiser this week at a sprawling Pennsylvania resort, an event Duane Sand’s campaign says illustrates the congressman is out of touch with North Dakotans.

The e-mailed invitation to the event asks contributors to “please join Congressman Earl Pomeroy for a weekend of championship golf, world-class spas and family entertainment at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort,” Farmington, Pa.

Advertised as “a whimsical place where you can escape life,” Nemacolin boasts 10 restaurants, two tennis courts, five pools, multiple golf courses, a shooting academy, guided fly-fishing, horseback riding, petting zoo, off-road driving academy, zebra and black bear habitat, bison, live animal shows, paintball combat, mountain biking, ropes courses, wall climbing and an airfield, in addition to skiing in winter months. It is in southwestern Pennsylvania, between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

Why is Earl Pomeroy, who is running for re-election in North Dakota, holding fund raisers in Pennsylvania?

And how many North Dakotans could even afford to go to a $2,500/person fund raiser?