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Cuomo Sells $5,500 World Series Tickets in Citi Field Campaign Fundraiser

By Murray Weiss | October 26, 2015 3:23pm
 Cuomo's campaign is offering tickets and reception to Citi Field games at $5,500 meet-and-greet.
Cuomo's campaign is offering tickets and reception to Citi Field games at $5,500 meet-and-greet.
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NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is selling World Series tickets for $5,500 as part of a “Cuomo 2018” campaign fundraiser he's hosting at Citi Field this Friday and Saturday, DNAinfo New York has learned.

The tickets — purchased from the Mets' organization — also come with a pre-game reception at 6:30 p.m. where contributors get to rub elbows with the governor before the Mets take on the Kansas City Royals.

A spokesman for "Cuomo 2018" would say only that a "limited number" of "high end seats" were obtained by the governor, and that the campaign paid "full face value" for them.

On a recent swing through Buffalo, Cuomo said he was planning on running for a third term.

It was not clear from the invitations whether Cuomo will offer the hot tickets for any fifth game of the World Series, which will be played at Citi Field if the series goes beyond four games.

The opening two games are slated for Tuesday and Wednesday in Kansas City, where Cuomo will be, he said, to show support for the National League champs.

Tickets to the Mets games are already at record highs on the resale market.  It is the first time the Mets have appeared in the Fall Classic in 15 years.

"It's cheaper to go to a ticket scalper," one invitation recipient quipped.

“It's smart for him to take advantage of what his constituents might like to raise money,” one political observer noted.

Another said that it might seem “a bit unseemly” to capitalize on the Mets, but the governor’s campaign people have not violated any regulations in doing so.

His 2018 fund reportedly contains more than $12 million already.

In fact, another observer noted, politicians frequently hold fundraisers at sporting events. 

A call to Major League Baseball was not immediately returned.