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SENATE PANEL RULES SENATORS CAN ACCEPT MCI CENTER TICKETS

          A U.S. Senate Ethics Committee ruling that values the
     price of an MCI Center club level ticket at $48 per game if
     it "could be bought individually instead of in a package" is
     examined in a front-page report by Ruth Marcus of the
     WASHINGTON POST.  The ruling "will allow senators and Senate
     staff to take free seats from corporations and lobbyists"
     since Senate ethic rules allow "any gifts that are valued at
     less than $50."  The club level actually costs $7,500 for a
     season of 82 Wizards and Capitals game -- or $91.46 per
     ticket, but "in an unpublicized move this summer," arena
     owner Abe Pollin's Washington Sports & Entertainment group
     "convinced" the Senate panel "that it shouldn't count what
     it estimates is the $43.46 worth of amenities that go along
     with the club level ... because the senators and staff
     wouldn't have them."  Washington Sports VP/Communications
     Matt Williams said that the calculation had "nothing to do"
     with the Senate ethics rule: "That's what the price of the
     seat came down to when we stripped away amenities."  But
     Williams "acknowledged that the ethics ruling would help in
     marketing the 3,000 club seats, which are about 60 percent
     sold."  Marcus adds that "citing the ethics ruling,"
     Washington Sports "has aggressively marketed the club level
     as the perfect opportunity 'to enhance existing customer
     relationships'" (WASHINGTON POST, 9/24).
          

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