MONTPELIER, Vt. — Anyone looking for money from the Vermont Legislature will have to go through a formidable pair of sisters first.
Rep. Catherine “Kitty” Toll assumed the chairmanship of the state House Appropriations Committee this month, opposite her older sister, Sen. Jane Kitchel, who has led the Senate Appropriations Committee since 2011.
For Toll and Kitchel, both Democrats who live in the most conservative part of ultra-liberal Vermont, it’s a recognition of their abilities that follows a lifetime of service and being immersed in current events, all a part of their family life for well over half a century.
Toll and Kitchel still live within a few miles of where they grew up in Danville in Vermont’s rural Northeast Kingdom.
The sisters’ mother served in the Legislature in the 1960s.
“The question that I heard more often than anything the first time I ran was, ‘How’s your mother?’ ” she said.
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