Gray to Fenty: Gimme Tickets; Fenty to World: Eat It
Baseball tickets: Remember them?
That insubstantial issue indicative of much larger problems reappeared today when Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray wrote Mayor Adrian M. Fenty a terse letter this afternoon asking, in effect, what's up with this?
"We are at a loss to understand why you and the Nationals have allowed this absurdity to happen again," Gray writes, referring to last year's similar conflict. "We look forward to you putting an end to this unnecessary distraction by immediately providing my office with the remainder of this season's tickets that belong to the Council for our constituents."
Gray closes, "You have never communicated with us to explain why you chose to take the tickets and then to keep them. We await your immediate response so this situation, once and for all, can be resolved."
LL asked both Fenty and Attorney General Peter Nickles about the letter this afternoon. Nickles simply ignored LL; Fenty tried a classic move: "We're still working on the budget!" he said.
LL asked if that meant things stood exactly the same place as they did the last time anyone asked; Fenty said, "Yes."
Full letter after jump.
May 13, 2009
The Honorable Adrian M. Fenty
Mayor of the District of Columbia
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004Dear Mayor Fenty:
As you know, once again the Council of the District of Columbia has not received baseball tickets this season for the suite provided by the Nationals for use by Councilmembers and their constituents.
This is a repeat of what happened last year, a situation which went on for weeks without resolution. The Council finally received the tickets from you in mid-May last year, even though they should have come directly to us in the first place. We are at a loss to understand why you and the Nationals have allowed this absurdity to happen again.
You have 67 tickets available to you for your use. The Council has just 19 tickets that are then divided among thirteen members. Our constituents look forward to the opportunity to attend games, and many members also give them to non-profits to facilitate their fund-raising efforts, especially important to them in this difficult economic climate. We look forward to you putting an end to this unnecessary distraction by immediately providing my office with the remainder of this season's tickets that belong to the Council for our constituents.
It has now been one month since the Nationals' home opener. You have never communicated with us to explain why you chose to take the tickets and then to keep them. We await your immediate response so this situation, once and for all, can be resolved.
Vincent C. Gray
Chairmancc: Councilmembers
DC Sports and Entertainment Commission
Washington Nationals
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6:42 pm
Fenty is such a d*ckhead. I'm glad the Council changed his budget and cut his staffing for several offices. I hope they totally disregard any legislation he wants to promote and when he brings it to the press's attention the Council can say they're busy like he always say. Yes, he's busy be a spoiled Brat
9:38 pm
ABF ABF ABF (Anybody But Fenty) in 2010. We Can and We Will, Get you OUT.... Even if you have $2.5M(+)--- You Sale Out!!!! Give up the damm tickets, Have you not stolen enough from the citizens and city???
BTW, Obama is well onto your sorry excuse for a mayor ass (holding out on baseball tickets) great press. Get a life loser
9:56 pm
There is no legitimate reason for Fenty to have these tickets. Only ex-slaves & self-absorbed yuppies would let a politician steal tickets like this - only in DC.
Good luck, assholes. You deserve nothing but the worst.
11:40 pm
PLEASE add the Mayor's house to the auction, since it's vacant more than it’s occupied. And, according to Fenty’s vacuous administration all vacant properties are nuisance; therefore, impose the same $10 per $100 tax rate on the Mayor’s property that he levies on the constituents’ “unoccupied” homes. Councilmember Brown, don’t fret yourself with organizing the event; add the Mayor’s home to the Office of Tax and Revenue upcoming racket of auctioning constituents’ homes who can’t afford Fenty’s predatory property tax heist.
9:13 am
What a disappointment this guy has turned out to be. I hope we have somebody decent to run against him.
9:34 am
Ohhhh man, LL, that is possibly the best headline ever.
6:44 pm
With all the scandals, the peacaholics, fake school reform, childish behavior over sports tickets, no wonder Dan Tan is leaving. Anybody with sense would leave this fool because it has got to end in 2010. F-TROOP must go!
11:35 pm
A One Term Mayor, A One Term Mayor, repeat after me.....He's got to be shown the door with a footprint strategically placed.