Congressional Offices Serve As Inauguration Ticket Hubs

By Doug Nadvornick | Nov. 28, 2008 9:44 a.m. | Spokane, WA

Thousands of people from the Northwest want to witness Barack Obama's presidential inauguration in person. Members of Congress are distributing free tickets to the ceremony. But be warned: the demand for those tickets is far greater than the supply. Correspondent Doug Nadvornick reports.

The office for Washington U.S. Senator Patty Murray has taken so many requests for inauguration tickets that it has said "enough".  If you're not on the request list by now, you're not going to get on it.The demand isn't quite as high in Idaho, where Obama won just 36-percent of the vote. But Lindsey Nothern, a spokesman for U-S Senator Mike Crapo, says the inauguration ticket business is still a brisk one.Nothern: "Roughly in the neighborhood of 400, give or take a few tickets, is what we will have. Our point is to give those away to folks from Idaho first."

U.S. House members will each receive about 200 to distribute. Business in their offices will be pretty brisk on the day before the inauguration when those tickets become available.One note: tickets go to members of the next Congress. That means the four members from the Northwest who are leaving Congress this year won't have any.

 

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