I just returned from visiting family in northern Vermont. While there, I attended U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ health care reform town hall in the tiny (pop. 600) town of Peacham, VT. The event attracted around 600 people to the Peacham Congregational Church…
Since there have been disruptions at similar events held elsewhere, the security presence was noticeable…
Since Vermont is a border state, a single payer health care system (like Canada’s) is quite popular…
The news media also turned out. Here, a Vermonter shares her health care story with a WDEV-FM reporter…
Advocates of Vermont’s proposed single payer legislation passed out postcards for people to send to their senators and representatives in Montpelier…
My Aunt Jean signs a petition…
Only half the crowd could fit inside the church…
After speaking to the overflow crowd outside the church, Sen. Sanders came inside. He gave a summary of what’s been happening in Washington, then took public comments for more than two hours. And it’s true what they say about town halls in New England. They’re very polite. Even the people who disagreed with Sanders were respectful.