{"id":655,"date":"2007-09-18T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/dc-vote-advocates-pressure-senate\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T19:47:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T23:47:24","slug":"dc-vote-advocates-pressure-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"DC vote advocates pressure Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports<\/a> in “11th Hour Pressure Applied on DC Vote<\/a>” that DC advocates are putting pressure on the Senate to pass a measure to allow consideration for a vote\u00c2\u00a0giving DC\u00c2\u00a0a voting member of Congress;<\/p>\n

Facing a critical Senate vote today, supporters and opponents of the D.C. voting rights bill made impassioned speeches and lobbied on Capitol Hill in a last-minute push on the District’s efforts to get its first full member of Congress.<\/p>\n

The motion coming up on the Senate floor would merely clear the way for lawmakers to consider the bill. But if supporters fail to get the necessary 60 votes, the legislation will probably be doomed for this year, according to senators and staff.
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\nBoth sides expect a close vote. So, in an eleventh-hour offensive yesterday, advocacy groups launched a nationwide call-in campaign to senators’ offices. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D), meanwhile, joined the District’s nonvoting House delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), at a rally in which they recalled the Senate’s notorious history of filibustering civil rights legislation.<\/p>\n

“Not since segregation has the Senate blocked a voting rights bill. And this is a voting rights bill,” Fenty declared outside the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Behind him, about 60 activists waved signs reading “I Demand the Vote.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, personally, I think everyone should have representation in Congress – every single human. If residents of DC are really so upset that they don’t have a voting representative, they should move – it’s only ten miles from Maryland to Virginia across the District, so no DC resident is moving too far to get the vote they covet, if they really wanted to vote.<\/p>\n

It’s not like Congress just up and changed the rules recently – it’s always been like that. There’s no one in DC who had their voting rights taken away – well, except maybe Eleanor Holmes Norton – she might have been living here when the Constitution was written.<\/p>\n

Why am I against DC having a voting member in Congress? Well, DC voters are morons, for one thing. They’ve elected a cracksmoking whoremonger to the Mayor’s Office after he was released from prison and then voted for him to sit on the City Council while he’s being investigated for tax evasion. When the District elected a straw Senator a few years ago, who’d they elect? Jesse Jackson, an Illinois resident who has never\u00c2\u00a0claimed residence in the District.<\/p>\n

The previous mayor was found to have hired people who falsified his filing documents for reelection and was denied entry into the election on the Democrat ticket – he ran as an independent and won anyway – despite his record of surrounding himself with known criminals and incompetent numbskulls.<\/p>\n

My opinion\u00c2\u00a0has nothing to do with the District’s political leanings – Utah would balance that out -it has to do with their electoral boobery.\u00c2\u00a0Why should the rest of the country suffer DC’s fools gladly. Aren’t Jim Moran and\u00c2\u00a0Chris Van Hollen\u00c2\u00a0enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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