Northampton mayor’s husband offers apology after Stop & Shop altercation: ‘I was the weak link in our local democracy’ - The Boston Globe

Democrat mayor's embarrassed husband forced to make groveling public apology for screaming at bystander in grocery store aisle

Political commentator Bill Scher, the husband of the Democrat mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts, issued a groveling apology after screaming at a local man in a grocery store.

Northampton mayor’s husband offers apology after Stop & Shop altercation: ‘I was the weak link in our local democracy’ - The Boston Globe

Bill Scher’s apology, coming amid so much national political strife, also seemed to speak to a larger sense of keyed-up anxiety buzzing beneath everyday life in America.