{"id":196066,"date":"2008-05-26T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/26\/schadenfreude-of-the-day-bush-mccain-fundraiser-moved-to-smaller-venue-because-of-weak-ticket-sales\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:39:00","slug":"schadenfreude-of-the-day-bush-mccain-fundraiser-moved-to-smaller-venue-because-of-weak-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/26\/schadenfreude-of-the-day-bush-mccain-fundraiser-moved-to-smaller-venue-because-of-weak-ticket-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude of the Day:  Bush\/McCain Fundraiser Moved to Smaller Venue Because of Weak Ticket Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to love it when in John McCain&#8217;s home state, a fund raiser with George W. Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/stories\/2008\/05\/19\/daily77.html?surround=lfn\">does not generate enough ticket sales to fill the Phoenix Convention Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"><p> Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> selling enough tickets<\/span> to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Another source said there were concerns about the media covering the event.<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s Arizona fundraising effort for McCain is being moved to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">private residences <\/span>in the Phoenix area&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, my dad has a barn, let&#8217;s put on a musical!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Not!!!!  Heh!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to love it when in John McCain&#8217;s home state, a fund raiser with George W. Bush does not generate enough ticket sales to fill the Phoenix Convention Center: Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,977,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-presidential-campaign","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}