As you may have read, Gov. Jim Douglas went to Washington yesterday to testify in support of Vermont's right to set emissions standards for cars. He was testifying in Sen. Bernie Sanders' Environment and Public Works Committee.
Gannett News Service captured an awkward picture of the two greeting each other in a crowded committee room, which I've conveniently provided for you at right. Almost makes you think the two can't bear each other. Either that, or Sanders was somehow physically harming Douglas, and Douglas was about to cry.
I wasn't there, of course, but Douglas's spokesman Jason Gibbs relayed this story about another Douglas-Sanders moment. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said she wanted to ask Douglas,
reminding him that he was under oath, what it was like to have Bernie Sanders as his senator and did he have any good Sanders stories to share, but because she had only 5 minutes, she would pass.
Gibbs said he asked the governor what he would have said. The answer: He would have come up with something nice.
- Terri Hallenbeck
