Looks like we all missed this story of Republican classiness...

[brooklynite]

Senate Cracks Down On Inaugural Scalping After GOP Aide Nabbed

(Jan 13, 2009)

UPDATE, 10:47 p.m. ET: The Senate Tuesday night passed legislation to criminalize the sale of inaugural ticket scalping, just hours after the Sleuth revealed that a former House GOP aide was hawking tickets on the Internet.

As the Associated Press reports, the Senate unanimously approved the bill sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) Now the bill goes to the House.

The Sleuth's posting from earlier today follows:

Selling inauguration tickets isn't illegal, not yet anyway. But it was still embarrassing for one former congressional aide who now works at a powerful lobbying firm when she was caught this week trying to sell tickets to Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony for big bucks.

The former aide is Gina Santucci, who now works as associate general counsel at BGR Holding, the lobbying, public relations and financial advisory firm formerly known as Barbour Griffith & Rogers, founded by current Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and veteran GOP political strategist Ed Rogers.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/01/selling_inauguration_tickets_i.html

[Kittycat]

1. I didn't miss it.

I believe we all discussed it here, I know it was discussed over at Kos, and other liberal newsites.

[Lex]

2. I suppose there is one GOP'er in DC that's not a crook . . .

somewhere?

[rainbow4321]

3. Same thing happened in a TX repuke office

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-tickets_19nat.ART.State.Edition2.4ed1173.html

The tickets are such hot merchandise that Congress passed a law outlawing their sale. The penalty: up to a $100,000 fine and up to a year in jail.

The office of Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, discovered this week that a former staffer who was on the office's ticket list was trying to hawk passes, though she hadn't received them yet. That former staffer was taken off the list, said spokeswoman Deeann Thigpen. She said no crime was committed.

"Our policy is that the tickets are for personal use and not for third-party sale," Thigpen said.

Rep. Ralph Hall's office also took back some tickets after discovering their sale on Craigslist, according to Politico.