Comments on: D.C. Voting Rights Liveblog

By: citizenw

citizenw — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:35:07 +0000

“Where is our senator?” Don’t you mean “Where ARE our SENATORS?”

If we get two senators for the next 200-odd years, our average representation in the Senate will approach one senator per year over the first 400 years of the Republic’s existence.

Reparation’s a bitch, right?

By: DCGREENEBOY

DCGREENEBOY — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:17:34 +0000

while i believe that voting rights are a key step to begin the process of equality for residents of the District of Columbia, it is only that a step. we need and deserve full statehood. a single voice in congress does not give us an equal voice, where is our senator?

DC STATEHOOD NOW!

By: citizenw

citizenw — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:09:19 +0000

“6. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for publick uses without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the publick good.”

Virginia Bill of Rights, June, 1776
Washington DC has been “Governed Without Consent” since 1801

By: Senator Joe Lieberman Is The Least Sucky Of All Senate Democrats | Andrew Daniller

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:40:12 +0000

[...] quote directly from Erik Wemple’s attempted liveblog of the introduction of DC voting rights legislation into the all-new heavily-Democratic 111th [...]

By: Nikolas Schiller

Nikolas Schiller — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:38:37 +0000

As much as I want to be fully represented in Congress, the DC House Voting Rights Act is not constitutional. Only STATES can have representation in Congress. Period. Norton, Lieberman, Hatch, and DC Vote shouldn’t be wasting their time on 1/3 representation that will be struck down in court. Moreover, its a joke that this issue is being taken up first in the Senate because the bill provides no senatorial representation. Why are they still selling DC residents short? Thats no “Change in Washington,” thats the status quo. They can do better than that.