Thanks Obama.
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Sell tickets to a campaign rally? Is that common? I can see handing out tickets for some kind of control. But sell? And what idiot would buy?
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Pay-per-view, of course.
This reminds me of the local news story that pops up every year at this time regarding the annual summer Kenny Chesney concert. Same concerns with security and cleanup costs.
Yeah, imagine the trouble TicketBastard would be in if they sold 40,000 Beyonce tickets for a venue that only seats 25,000.
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Yes! What politician SELLS tickets to his rallies?
Is this true? No one has commented on it before. Guess all those reporters in the pens didn’t see that one coming.
Typically campaigns do not charge for tickets up front, but they do ask for name etc to try to get you on their mailing list.
“…And what idiot would buy?” Wellll…they are looking to go to a Drumpf ‘event’.
Poor Cleveland is about to get a (T)rumpfucking!
The best people make the best errors.
…and the donnie will take credit for creating jobs… in addition to the hand/blow/snow varieties…
Cleveland’s going to allow protesters at the convention site.
Matt Rokus, the deputy police chief in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, said that for a rally in the city, the Trump campaign sold 6,000 tickets for a venue that seats 1,800.
“Duh, there’s going to be a problem,” Rokus told Bloomberg News. “You got a bunch of people who drove hours to get there thinking they had a seat.”
I’m sensing a decades-long pattern here.
jw1
Well, if they’re Trump supporters, they’ve already proven they’re easily conned, so why not milk them for everything they’ve got?
Bonus: the campaign can claim the rowdies are liberals. After all, who’s gonna check?
They have put their foot down firmly against water guns at the protest locations…
…real guns are fine, however.
So there will be NO rolling with super soaker punches…
yay something?
So a Von Clownstick Rally is sort of like this?
Probably none, including Don the Con. Despite the clear statements in the article, I haven’t been able to find any evidence that tickets were sold, only that they were required. Obviously, it’s stupid to distribute more tickets than there are seats available, but I’m having trouble understanding why TPM is either reporting something blatantly false, or failing to provide any support for the claim.
Could this be part of the scamming? Goes like this: “Trump Entity” rents the venue and sells the tickets to the Trump campaign, which pays with campaign donations and distributes the tickets for free to the unwashed.
It probably takes a good five or sixfold deliberate overbooking to make sure the event looks like a packed house for the cameras.
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