TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Tickets will be rare commodities for the public should President Bush and Sen. John Kerry agree to meet in a debate on the Arizona State University campus.
With the Gammage Auditorium reconfigured to seat about 300-400 people for the proposed Oct. 13 debate, some 90 percent of the seats will go to the campaigns and about 30-50 tickets would be available to ASU students in a lottery, the Arizona Republic reported Tuesday.
One way to increase chances of getting tickets is to donate thousands of dollars to the debate organizing committee, which finds itself about $400,000 short of a goal to get the debate to Tempe, the newspaper said. Organizers said the event will cost about $2.5 million to stage.
While no formal plan for the debates has been agreed to by the Bush and Kerry campaigns, an independent debate committee has suggested a series of three debates, beginning Sept. 30 at the University of Miami in Florida. Washington University, in St. Louis, would be the site for the second debate with the Arizona event the final meeting before the election, Nov. 2.
