December 18, 2007
Mayor's Major Donors, Staff Get Verizon Center Tickets
WTOP's Mark Segraves got a hold of a partial list of the folks who've been receiving tickets to use the city's free luxury box in the Verizon Center -- the one that the D.C. Council is so miffed they're being boxed out of -- and there's some fun tidbits he discovered.
Most of those invited to D.C.'s Luxury Suite at the Verizon Center by Fenty either contributed the maximum $2,000 to Fenty's campaign or worked on the campaign. The rest of the tickets, with only a few exceptions, went to friends, family and the mayor's senior staffers of the mayor.
Segraves linked to the list he received, which shows that City Administrator Dan Tangherlini, Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Neil Albert and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee all received tickets to the hotly sought after Hannah Montana concert.
Who didn't get tickets? D.C. Shadow Senator Paul Strauss. The last time we saw the Senator he was frantic to find tickets to the tween sensation's concert for his daughters, and when we asked him today whether he had ever found any, he quickly emailed back:
"No - I did not. Damn, I am calling the Mayor right now," Strauss said.
Sorry about that phone call, Mayor Fenty! But given that Strauss is an unpaid city official, we'd have to say he probably deserves those tickets even more than any of those who got them.
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I know Datlines Chris Hanson is going, but he's working.
I'm pretty sure there's nothing illegal about this.
The "shadow senator" are you fing kidding me? That's not a city official its a protest position.
Ah, Hannah Montana: the thinking man's Jamie Lynne Spears. And by "thinking" I mean "forcing yourself not to look at really attractive 16-year-old girls/boys."
Still, something's happening and you don't know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?
Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old "Zoey 101" star and sister of Britney, told OK! magazine that she's pregnant.
I am looking at you Monkey.
Unless he's going under some alias these days, I'm surprised to see that Fenty's thug/troublemaker frat boy pal Sinclair Skinner didn't get any free tickets to the Hanna Montana show.
The most important equation you will see today:
Saran Wrap ≠ condom.
Who cares? This is not scandalous.