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Kate Hudson is sitting on a folding chair in a crowded storage closet when suddenly the voice of Kate Hudson comes booming through the wall.

In the first row of folding chairs, members of the Dodgers’ Guggenheim ownership group were present.

She spoke in front of roughly 600 people beneath the Rotunda’s grand dome, who were crammed tightly together in folding chairs that appeared more reminiscent of a high school graduation than an inauguration ceremony.

Friday night, the audience sat on four dozen folding chairs.

The visible rear engine nozzles garnered gasps and pointing among a few hundred residents who sat in folding chairs along the sidewalk to watch the procession.