Cohen served in the New Hampshire Legislature from 1990 to 2004. He wants to run for the Senate in 2010.
Get the Story:N.H. politician sorry for portal haggling 48 years ago (The Santa Fe New Mexican 6/21)
Man apologizes to Indian vendor after 48 years
A Democratic politician from New Hampshire who is considering a run for U.S. Senate is apologizing for haggling with an Indian vendor in New Mexico nearly a half-century ago.
Burt Cohen, 58, was 10 years old when his family visited Santa Fe. He tricked an Indian woman into selling him a $1 bolo tie for 75 cents by saying he didn't have enough money to buy it.
"She gave me a quarter back with a disgusted look on her face," Cohen wrote in a letter to media outlets in New Mexico when he passed the woman a dollar bill. "The disgust became my own ever since that moment."
N.H. politician sorry for portal haggling 48 years ago (The Santa Fe New Mexican 6/21)
N.H. politician sorry for portal haggling 48 years ago (The Santa Fe New Mexican 6/21)
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