gov groper's fenway debut turns into bust
way to go, CA nurses!!
excerpt from Matier & Ross, 2005.08.24
The plan was to resell tickets to the Stones kickoff concert for $10,000 to raise big money for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's November special election initiatives.
For $100,000, you got to meet and greet with Arnold himself at a preconcert luxury box wing-ding.
Reviews of the bash, however, were mixed at best.
The Boston Herald judged that Arnold's "high-voltage foray" into the Hub (as Boston calls itself) was a "VIP fiasco," reporting that controversy over the election turned the $10,000- to $100,000-a-head tickets into "box office poison."
"Schwarzenegger also managed to clumsily snub (Massachusetts Republican) Gov. Mitt Romney by not calling his fellow guv before swanning into town," the paper reported.
Then there were the pickets, including a dozen or so California nurses who traveled across the country to protest Schwarzenegger's policies.
One of the those nurses was Kelly DiGiacomo -- a self-styled Arnold stalker who managed to get a last-minute ticket to the concert and went in dressed in her full uniform.
"I had a really good seat about 20 rows from the stage," where she could see Arnold's near-empty box, DiGiacomo told us.
"I stood up (in cap and uniform) and waved at him. The guy he was sitting with nudged him and pointed at me -- but Arnold wouldn't look at me,'' DiGiacomo said.
When quizzed by Chronicle political writer Carla Marinucci, Marty Wilson, the chief fundraiser for Schwarzenegger, wouldn't specifically dispute reports that sales of the $100,000 seats for the preconcert event were less than stellar.
"We raised a substantial sum of money,'' Wilson said, though he declined to say how much, how many tickets were sold or at what price.
"It was a good event,'' Wilson said. "The donors had a real good time."
excerpt from Matier & Ross, 2005.08.24
The plan was to resell tickets to the Stones kickoff concert for $10,000 to raise big money for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's November special election initiatives.
For $100,000, you got to meet and greet with Arnold himself at a preconcert luxury box wing-ding.
Reviews of the bash, however, were mixed at best.
The Boston Herald judged that Arnold's "high-voltage foray" into the Hub (as Boston calls itself) was a "VIP fiasco," reporting that controversy over the election turned the $10,000- to $100,000-a-head tickets into "box office poison."
"Schwarzenegger also managed to clumsily snub (Massachusetts Republican) Gov. Mitt Romney by not calling his fellow guv before swanning into town," the paper reported.
Then there were the pickets, including a dozen or so California nurses who traveled across the country to protest Schwarzenegger's policies.
One of the those nurses was Kelly DiGiacomo -- a self-styled Arnold stalker who managed to get a last-minute ticket to the concert and went in dressed in her full uniform.
"I had a really good seat about 20 rows from the stage," where she could see Arnold's near-empty box, DiGiacomo told us.
"I stood up (in cap and uniform) and waved at him. The guy he was sitting with nudged him and pointed at me -- but Arnold wouldn't look at me,'' DiGiacomo said.
When quizzed by Chronicle political writer Carla Marinucci, Marty Wilson, the chief fundraiser for Schwarzenegger, wouldn't specifically dispute reports that sales of the $100,000 seats for the preconcert event were less than stellar.
"We raised a substantial sum of money,'' Wilson said, though he declined to say how much, how many tickets were sold or at what price.
"It was a good event,'' Wilson said. "The donors had a real good time."
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