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Bristol Palin's Boyfriend Going to GOP Convention
Tuesday September 2, 2008

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Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's high school sweetheart and father of her unborn baby, will attend the Republican National Convention this week in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

Levi's mother, Sherry Johnston, told the AP that her son left Alaska on Tuesday to join the Palin's at the convention where Senator John McCain will officially receive the Republican nomination for president.

Asked by reporters if the Palin's had put pressure Levi to marry Bristol, Sherry replied, "Absolutely not."

She called the reports "absolutely bogus."

Sherry told the AP that Levi, 18, and Bristol, 17, had planned to wed before it was known that she was pregnant.

The New York Post reported that although Levi admits to being "in a relationship" on his personal MySpace page, the teen hockey player makes the candid revelation that he does not want to be a parent stating, “I don’t want kids.". His profile has since been set to private.

Sarah Palin announced the pregnancy in a statement to Reuters on Monday. She also used the occasion to reveal Bristol and Levi’s marriage plans. She said, "Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family."

When asked about how her own family is handling the media scrutiny, Sherry said, "I'm just a country gal and I want to keep it that way."

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