(Photo by Getty Images. Oh well, looks like we'll have to cancel that "Mayor Fenty is a prick" post we scheduled for mid-May this year.)
No Ticketgate in 2010.
With his approval rating going down the toilet and a reelection bid looming, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has coughed up the District's Nationals tickets several months earlier than usual:
During the two previous baseball seasons, Fenty (D) sparred with council members over season tickets to Washington Nationals games until weeks after Opening Day, prompting members to say that the mayor was holding their property hostage because of politics.
(via Tim Craig/Washington Post, 3/11/2010)
The letter from Neil O. Albert, City Administrator, to Vincent Gray, is short and sweet, and goes something like this:
Pursuant to our practice of the last three years [with the teensie, tiny, exception of timing], enclosed are tickets and parking passes to Suite 61 of the Nationals Park for the 2010 baseball season.
Last season, we called out the would-be-Nationals-Park-Killer for his antics in mid-May. Of course, it's possible that Fenty took one look at the state of the Nationals 2010 rotation (beyond Lannan & Marquis) and figured he'd be screwing members of the DC Council even more by giving up the tickets early than he would by holding the tickets. Is it possible Fenty hates the council now more than ever?
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