Real VT: Senator Leahy goes shopping

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Monday, December 19, 2005

Real VT: Senator Leahy goes shopping

Posted By Cathy Resmer on Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 1:56 PM

Reason # 347827859 why I love Vermont: from Hall Monitor's Darren Allen, who ran into Senator Patrick Leahy at the Hunger Mountain Food Co-op on Saturday. Leahy spent the weekend at home before returning to DC as the session winds down.

After a brief chat with the senator very much in the news latelyfor opposing President Bush's approach to renewing the Patriot Act --and for angrily denouncing a domestic spying program that has Bush verymuch on the defensive -- he bade goodbye.

As he left thecheckout line, a woman in the aisle spotted him, and started clappingloudly. Soon the entire store erupted into cheers.

I'll bet you that most senators in the country don't get that kind of a reception while stocking up on a few provisions.

I love it that it's possible to run into one of our two senators at the local co-op.

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Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex...