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Obama Inauguration Day 2
Among the Austinites expected in DC — along with hordes of politicians — are Out & About repeaters: Kirk and Amy Rudy, Steve Adler and Diane Land, John and Julie Thornton, Alexa and Blaine Wesner, Tom and Lynn Meredith, Mickey and Jeanne Klein, Bev Reeves, Jordan Herman and David Porter, Kevin Tuerff and Kevin Land, Marc and Suzanne Winkelman, plus Alex Winkelman.
Go ahead, check these names against lists of major Democratic Party activists and contributors online. Internet transparency is a good thing.
We hear art consultant Suzanne Deal Booth, who splits her time between Los Angeles and Austin, will be leading a contingent to Ariana Huffington’s party at the Newseum. Austin baritone and arts philanthropist Andrew Heller will sing at Corcoran Gallery for the Link Foundation’s affair, one of the official inaugural balls. Appropriately, he’ll sing “Chicago.”
West Lake High School graduate and University of Texas interior-design student Lauren Ashley Helton will be among the official inaugural scholars meeting lots of important people, including Austin superstar Lance Armstrong, over the course of several days in DC.
I like this touch: Austin’s Gretchen Weicker Bullock will be hanging with college friends from Austin College in Sherman. “We are having our own ‘Kangaroo Ball’ because that aggressive marsupial is the college mascot,” she says of their novel DC event.
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