CAMPAIGN ’88 : Super Offer From Kemp

Republican presidential candidate Jack Kemp has come up with a fund-raising gimmick that his rivals will find hard to match: a ticket to this year’s Super Bowl game between Washington and Denver.

The New York congressman is selling Super Bowl tickets for $100, the face value, to those who buy $1,000 tickets to his fund-raising events in San Diego on the weekend of the game, Jan. 31. Scalpers are offering the tickets for as much as $2,000 each depending on the location of the seat.

Campaign spokesman John Buckley said Kemp, a former quarterback for San Diego and Buffalo, hoped to get about 200 tickets for the game. Buckley said Kemp has been holding the parties at Super Bowl games for the last 16 years. Asked where Kemp was getting tickets to the sold-out game, Buckley replied, “He has a lot of friends in the NFL (National Football League).”