Use your voting power to help us get some voting power
The DC House Voting Rights Act is headed for the Senate floor after passing committee yesterday (The Hill). This long-awaited piece of legislation has already passed the House, which means we are one (big) step away from gaining a vote for the half million citizens of DC.
That's right, half a million people with no true representation in Congress. And this is the same city that had to battle, as late as 1973, to establish home rule. As in, an elected city council with some control over the way the place is run. What are we, a 17th century British colony? It gets worse when you realize that many DC citizens belong to demographic groups that are already underrepresented in Congress due to voter turnout and voter suppression issues.
Help us out here: please contact your senators and ask them to support the bill. DC Vote makes it easy on you with this quick e-mail action alert.
That's right, half a million people with no true representation in Congress. And this is the same city that had to battle, as late as 1973, to establish home rule. As in, an elected city council with some control over the way the place is run. What are we, a 17th century British colony? It gets worse when you realize that many DC citizens belong to demographic groups that are already underrepresented in Congress due to voter turnout and voter suppression issues.
Help us out here: please contact your senators and ask them to support the bill. DC Vote makes it easy on you with this quick e-mail action alert.
Labels: DC life
posted by Waage on Thursday, June 14, 2007
1 Comments:
DC people deserve real representation. My Senators from AZ are chumps, so don't count on them to support. At least McCain probably won't be there to vote against it.
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