"Writing for five years" - nice waste of time. How far did that get ya? Let's sit around in a circle jerk & write & blog & piss & moan for fifty years, & call it a good effort.

Shut down the bridges = full rights within a week. Writing & complaining = full rights never achieved.

Bus ads? What a joke.

As for the birthers/deathers/psychotic shouters at town hall meetings, they should be bounced from the meeting. Until the Dems learn to fight - & physically fight when necessary - they only deserve scorn.

As for the Kennedys, good riddance. America is not supposed to have aristocracies, but the peasants who live here are too ignorant to know better.

I think DC Vote is a valuable organization, whether or not we all agree with their tactics and approach. They spend every day working for a cause that doesn't seem to go anywhere, and they are stuck with the unenviable task of balancing competing interests within the movement and city. It can't be easy to try to appeal to people who demand immediate statehood and those that favor an incremental approach towards it. Sure, the organization has its faults, but their heads and hearts are in the right place.

I've been writing about voting rights for five years, so it's not like DCist just suddenly jumped in on the voting rights bandwagon or something!

Also, I volunteered for the ad campaign because at the end of the day, voting representation is a universal right. As a non-U.S. citizen, I feel it's fair for me to advocate on behalf of the residents of a city I have lived in for eight years and who are denied a right that many people in the other countries I lived in gained with the support of the U.S.

Finally, the campaign isn't limited to me -- there are many other spokespeople, all of which can vote here! Check out iamdc.org to see all the posters.

Martin Austermuhle