Schumer Running Raffle For Inauguration Tickets
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Sen. Charles Schumer announced that his office will be conducting a statewide lottery to distribute tickets for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Schumer’s office will distribute 350 tickets during a random drawing the first week of December. The deadline to submit requests is Nov. 30th, with requests being accepted through Schumer’s website or by fax. Tickets for the swearing-in ceremony are only provided through congressional offices and are free of charge.
To enter, go to Schumer’s homepage or fax a request to 202-228-3027.
Schumer said in a news release that in total there are about 240,000 tickets available for the swearing-in ceremony, which will be Jan. 20.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
