It’s been a little more than a week, but newly minted Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., has been seen on the Hill, at the bar (The Dubliner, to be exact) and at the theater (a National Theatre performance of “Grease” with former “American Idol” Taylor Hicks).
And, as one of our spies reported, the senator is being incredibly friendly to locals, noting an incident that occurred during Brown’s first weekend in Washington.
Brown and his wife, Gail Huff, found themselves in Chinatown, where the movie theater was closed because of the snowy weather, and they were looking for a place to eat.
For advice, they approached several members of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.
“We’re new in town,” Brown told the officers, shaking their hands and introducing them to his wife. “We don’t want anything fancy,” Brown then said when shopping for suggestions, according to our source. He was referred to the nearby California Tortilla.
In addition, upon finding out the officers were on foot, Huff made a suggestion: “You should volunteer your truck to these officers,” she reportedly said. “You would never have thought that they were politicians,” our source reported.
And to cozy up to Washington further, the Boston Globe reported, Brown is renting a six-room condo off Pennsylvania Avenue that overlooks the U.S. Navy Memorial and the National Archives until he finds something more permanent. His landlord? Former Tennessee senator, one-time presidential candidate and “Law & Order” star Fred Thompson.
