Reply #14: This is an interesting read for anybody who thought we would have a senator for our state.

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So, one of the first thing our dear junior senator does is to rent a "six-room condo on Pennsylvania Avenue while Brown and his family look for a more permanent place to live."

Six rooms? for a junior senator just arriving in town? Except for people who have been there a long time or rich people, many senators share appartments together. Even people like Durbin or Schumer are known for sharing appartments with 2 or 3 other people. But the Brown family needs their 6 room appartment (for 2 people at best). Talk about an absence of common touch (and note that the article does not say what the rent is).

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/02/14/brown_to_rent_ex_tenn_senators_condo_in_dc/

I particularly like this last sentence:

living there won’t dent Brown’s regular-guy image as much as if he had rented Thompson’s other place: a massive brick mansion in Virginia worth millions.

You think?