When I saw this on a certain other blog, it gigged me — I need to make sure I can get into this Fred Thompson thing.

So I wrote to erstwhile blogger Sunny Phillips over at GOP HQ saying, "As a fellow Memphis State alum, will I be able to get into this?", and she responded:

For the record, the story is wrong.  The event tickets have been selling at a brisk pace.  Regardless, are you requesting media clearance or a luncheon ticket?  I can totally do the media credential…

I of course responded about how I hate standing behind a rope with the media critters, that the only way to get the real story was to mix with the regular folks, but of course I’m not offering to buy a ticket to a political fund-raiser — an obvious conflict of interest — and…

Well, so far, she hasn’t bitten. Weaker folk will break down in the face of that kind of wheedling, but our Sunny is a thorough professional, and made of sterner stuff. She has not yet said, "Oh, that’s OK, just come on in and sit anywhere." So my usual stuff’s not working. Which makes me think that perhaps the demand for tickets to this thing are a little too brisk.

I’ll let you know after I go to it, one way or the other, next week.

And one of these days we’ll corrupt Sunny into coming back to the ‘Sphere.

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