Dressed up and ready to go: The inaugural date night one senator saved

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Thanks to Sen. Patty Murray, Sharon and Blake Ilstrup can have their big inauguration date night after all.

Last week, the Seattle-area couple, along with many others, were shut out of the first-come, first-served official Presidential Inaugural Ball ticket sales when a mistake by Ticketmaster, the ticket vendor, inadvertently released tickets for both the inaugural ball and parade early, as CNN first reported.

Ticketmaster and the Presidential Inaugural Ball later apologized for the mix-up, but thousands of potential partygoers were upset and flocked to Facebook and social media demanding a remedy.

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But after seeing their story on a Seattle TV station Friday morning, Murray, a Democrat from Washington state, came to the rescue. Murray called her office and told them to track the couple down.

full: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/21/politics/ticketmaster-date-night-saved/index.html

[uppityperson]

1. Patty Murray is great. Thanks for the story.

[freshwest]

3. +1

[catbyte]

2. I just saw a re-run of CNN interviewing the couple at the Ball.