Who Gets Nats Tickets at City Hall?

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Sources at the seat of power in DC tell me there was an important secret meeting on Friday between the Excutive and Legislative branches of government. The discussion centered around who would control the complimentary tickets made available to elected City leaders by the Nationals organization.

Make no mistake. This isn't chairty. The tickets, which number anywhere from twenty to forty,come with the two suites that belong to the government as part of the deal in which the City borrowed the 611 million dollars to build Nationals Park.

"The Mayor wants to control all the tickets" said one Councilmember today. "If I want to take a constituent to a game I have to ask the executive branch for a ticket".

The negotiations have been so intense that Council Chairman Vincent Gray himself attended the meeting on Friday.

The Mayor's spokesperson wasn't sure where the ticket negotiations stood as of this afternoon. She thought an agreement had been reached whereby the Mayor controlled one suite and the Council Chairman, the other. Makes sense to this reporter; but we're still trying to nail this one down. The Nats have 80 remaining home games.