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Pat Leahy: Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Called For Al Franken To Resign

Matthew McDonald

U.S. Senator Pat Leahy (D-Vermont) originally said he'd wait for an Ethics Committee investigation of allegations of groping and other forms of sexual harassment against U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minneosta) before deciding whether Franken should  go. Then, on December 6, Leahy called on Franken to resign; now, after U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) called the forced resignation announcement "hypocritical," Leahy is back to his original opinion.

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‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Regales Small Children at Library

Matthew McDonald

The event included two men in women's clothing and makeup reading stories and leading singalongs at a public library in Burlington, Vermont. One of the stories features a prince who finally finds happiness by marrying another prince; the idea of the event is to encourage "the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive and unabashedly queer role models."

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