Now that the presidential election has become an all-out foot race, two local women are using their lucky rabbits’ feet to help Senator John Kerry win by a hare. Or two.

Decked out in bunny suits and waving signs that read, “Hopping mad at Bush,” “George Bugs me,” and “Lettuce vote Bush out,” Tammy Kennedy and Carolyn Lockwood-

Pitkin flashed their political messages to morning and afternoon commuters Tuesday at the intersection of Williston Road and I-89 in South Burlington.

“We want to protest the Bush administration’s war against women, the environment, civil rights, all minorities and the American constitution,” says Tammy Kennedy, a co-organizer of the event. “We’ve got to get out and do everything we can. The future of our country is at stake.”

Though Vermont may be a solidly “blue” state, Kennedy and Lockwood-Pitkin aren’t taking anything for granted. The last thing either of them want is to see a repeat of the 2000 election, when the Republicans pulled W. out of the hat.

This article appears in The Music Issue.

Staff Writer Ken Picard is a senior staff writer at Seven Days. A Long Island, N.Y., native who moved to Vermont from Missoula, Mont., he was hired in 2002 as Seven Days’ first staff writer, to help create a news department. Ken has since won numerous regional and national awards for his features, profiles and investigative stories and had his work picked up by international news outlets. He was the first journalist to shine a light on the thousands of undocumented workers in Vermont’s dairy...