Not Your Typical Town Hall Meeting
<p>Once a month, a Minnesota drug store transforms itself into a neighborhood town hall meeting place where Democratic candidates vying for nearly any Minnesota office come to discuss and debate issues with the people they look to represent.</p>
"No candidate runs for office as a Democrat in the state of Minnesota without first visiting Schneider's Drug Store."
"Once a month, pharmacist Tom Sengupta turns his store into a neighborhood town hall, providing an intimate setting to talk about local and state issues."
Sengupta began holding these meetings in 1988.
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Published on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 in
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