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Warren County represented at inauguration by Khare

Photo provided by Ash Khare Ash Khare, RNC delegate and electoral college elector, at his seat at the Presidential Inauguration on Friday in Washington D.C.

By JOSH COTTON

jcotton@timesobserver.com

Being an elector to the Electoral College comes with some perks.

The most important on Friday?

Good seats at the inaguration festivities.

Ash Khare, who was a delegate to the convention last summer and then a Donald Trump electoral voter in December, was on hand for the festivities in Washington this week.

“This was an awesome moment and the way Trump presented it, like a victory for the people, you have to be energized and he brought the people together,” Khare said. “Today, the power goes back to the people. Absolutely unbelievable.”

Khare went to DC on Thursday and took in a concert at the Lincoln Memorial and attended an Asian-Pacific American Ball on Thursday night.

“That was an awesome event,” he said, and ran until about 11 p.m. during which he snagged a photo with the US ambassador to India, where Khare was born.

Getting to the inauguration was an adventure in and of itself.

Two taxi rides and a long walk later, Khare and his wife made it to their assigned section at about 7:30 Friday morning.

“Security is so unbelievable. The perimeters they have cordoned off are unbelievable,” he said. But by 7:30, “half the place is full,” a full four hours before the festivities commenced.

Khare used that time to work the system and improve his tickets, moving even closer – 100 to 150 yards from the west front of the Capital where the inauguration took place.

“I got the tickets because I was an elector,” Khare said. “I would not have gotten tickets to sit otherwise.” He said that each Congressman gets 190 tickets but said that those are standing only.

After the inauguration, the Khares went to a reception at Congressman Glenn Thompson’s office before going to the inaugural parade.

He said that their tickets for the parade were at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, across the street from the DC mayor’s office.

“The people that were there around me and in the whole section (were) just totally electrified and energized,” Khare explained. “This is a very simple thing that takes place every four years but it is no less than a miracle. We have a peaceful handling of power. There is no guns. There are no people sent to jail.”

Khare’s Friday continued at the Freedom Ball, one of just three that President Trump is attending.

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