Requests for Obama Inauguration Tickets Pour In

Easha Anand reports on the inauguration. Congressional offices have been busy fielding inauguration requests, but that will likely give way to fielding calls from disappointed constituents. House members will receive 198 inauguration tickets apiece to distribute to constituents for the historic Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. In Virginia, for instance, that amounts to 2,178 inaugural tickets from all of House members combined. The office of Rep. Jim Moran , who represents the northern Virginia suburbs, has received 15,000 requests for tickets to date. “Phones are ringing off the hook, 9 to 5, in D.C. and in Alexandria, and pretty much everybody’s chipping in to help take care of those calls,” said Austin Durrer, spokesman for Moran. Virginia Sen. Jim Webb already has received 29,000 calls or emails requesting tickets to the inauguration, with some asking for as many as 25 tickets. He wrote a letter to the inauguration committee even before ... (link)