

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.