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Mayor Nagin's Super Bowl Weekend Paid For By Taxpayers
Posted: Feb 8, 2010 9:06 AM by Rob Kirkpatrick
Source: KATC
Updated: Feb 8, 2010 9:06 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has a ticket to
the Super Bowl and the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Nagin expressed shock last week that as the city's chief
executive, he only had been offered the option to buy tickets in a
"nosebleed section" of Sun Life Stadium in Miami, where the
Saints make their Super Bowl debut Sunday.
Nagin said Thursday the city paid for his ticket after
consulting with the city attorney on whether he should find another
way to pay for the ticket.
But Nagin said he was told that city hall could foot the bill,
especially since New Orleans was chosen last year to host Super
Bowl XLVII at the Superdome.
A Nagin spokesman tells The Times-Picayune that tickets were
purchased for the mayor and his security detail.
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