Just in case you thought all Republican candidates or all Democratic candidates were in lock-step, here is proof they’re not.

Republican Senate candidate Rich Tarrant proposed that he and his opponent, independent-but-Democratically-supported Bernie Sanders, join House candidates Peter Welch and Mark Shepard for their “Sunday Conversations on the Green.”

These are the same conversations on the green that Republican Martha Rainville said she doesn’t want to join because she’s focused on her primary campaign with Shepard.

Tarrant and Sanders would be welcome, Welch campaign manager Carolyn Dwyer said. But not for all-candidates-at-once discussion. Better to keep them separate, she said, as some voters are having a hard enough time keeping the two races separate.

No word yet from Sanders' campaign, but here's guessing the answer will be no.

— Terri Hallenbeck