To buy those season tickets and maintain our seats, we also had to donate at a specified level.

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Every time one show ended and another began, the stage managers had us switch seats so we'd look like a whole new audience.

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Rep. MATHESON: Well, I think we fit in quite well because - not just in this election we just had, but if you go back over the past three or four elections, the vast majority of seats that Democrats have picked up that have now ultimately given the Democratic Party the majority have been Blue Dogs.

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