Your Ticket to History: Deadline 11:59pm Tonight
You may have heard about Cynthia Russell earlier this week. Cynthia is a home builder from Florida, who, despite 18 years in her line of work, is struggling to pay the bills and keep the doors of her small business open. Cynthia was also the first supporter we selected to attend the Inauguration of Barack Obama and Joe Biden as a guest of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, after she donated to make this inauguration a success.
We're flying Cynthia and her guest to Washington, DC, putting them up in a hotel, and providing them with tickets to the welcome ceremony, the swearing-in, the Inaugural Parade, and the Neighborhood Ball.
But we're still looking for nine more people. Make a donation by 11:59pm tonight, and you could be selected to witness one of the seminal events of our time. History will be made on January 20th - do you want to be there to see it?
Here's a thought experiment. Suppose you're the true believer of true believers. Money's a little tight, but you managed to max out to Obama in both the primary and general campaigns.
And yet, you've gotten no invitation to Washington, nothing to the balls, nothing to any local levels -- except for these Publisher's-Clearinghouse-like requests for donations to the Presidential Inaugural Committee. Now -- you've never been to a swearing in, or a ball, or a parade, but you'd love to go. The latest solicitation you get urges you give money so that ten others -- check the odds; it won't be you -- get to celebrate.
Mickey Kaus is right (despite the Atlantic snark): Asking people to "pay for other people to party at the inauguration you're not going to" is pretty audacious.
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