Exclusive! Mayor and Council Chair Fighting for Tickets!

DC Mayor Adrian Fenty on Wednesday afternoon wouldn't call it a fight; but acknowledged he and the Council are fighting over the roughly forty tickets inside two luxury suites at the new Nationals Ball Park.

Sources say Fenty is controlling the tickets and refusing to give half of them and a luxury suite to Council Chairman Vincent Gray and his colleagues. "It's all new. we're still looking into it" said the Mayor.

Gray attended a meeting on the matter Friday with Deputy Mayor Neal Albert representing the administration. There was no resolution.

Sources tell me that in retaliation, the Chairman on Tuesday, removed three bills from the legislative consent agenda that the Mayor was counting on in order to award government contracts valued at more than a million dollars.

It's not just the new Ball park that makes these tickets "priceless". Last year when the Nats were playing at RFK stadium which the city owns, the elected leaders received 140 tickets for every home game..roughly three and a half times the number they get at the new ball park.

The Mayor and Council members pass most of those tickets on to political supporters, family, youth and senior groups.

If they want more tickets to the new ballpark they'll ether buy them or seek freebies from the new owners.

By now everyone knows the city borrowed 611 million dollars to build the new stadium along the Anacostia River in Southeast. Fenty, then a Ward four Council member opposed the plan.

Someone said on Wednesday elected leaders should have negotiated a bigger number of tickets to the New Nationals Park.