Kensington Tells Retiree to Button Up or Pay Up
By Dan Morse
Washington Post Staff Writer
The left-leaning town of Kensington would seem fertile ground for Alan McConnell to peddle his little green buttons.
“Impeach Him,” the buttons state, and for months the 74-year-old has sold them for a dollar apiece at the town’s Saturday morning farmers market.
Alan McConnell has been ordered to stop selling buttons at the Kensington farmers market for safety reasons. But things hardly have been easy for him lately.
“This is about his getting attention”
You are absolutely correct, but the impeachable offenses which he is drawing attention to are hardly “Much ado about nothing”.
This is an obvious attempt to gain attention to a worthwhile cause. And it succeeded.
It’s a farmers market where merchants pay to sell produce. He was trespassing by selling buttons on the private space after repeatedly being asked not to. This is about his getting attention, otherwise he just would have sold his buttons a few feet outside the entrance. Much ado about nothing.