Senator Lautenberg Can't, Won't Resell Springsteen Tickets to Donors

When the Bergen Record revealed that Senator Frank Lautenberg wanted to buy $108 tickets to Bruce Springsteen's Giants stadium concert--and then "sell" them at $1,500 a pop to potential donors--sparking outrage, the NJ Sports and Exposition Authority decided not to allow the campaign to buy the tickets. The agency has typically allowed the powerful to get coveted seats (in this case, they would have been at the 40-yard line) at cost. A Lautenberg spokesperson it would ask the NJSEA "to re-examine its practice of reserving tickets, in order to ensure that its tickets are available to all New Jersey residents, not just to VIPs." The Record, though, points out "the Lautenberg campaign seemed to have been perfectly content to take the traditional route through the Sports Authority’s back-door box office until the issue became public."