April 11, 2007
Five Days and Counting: Ready to March?
We're but five days away from the March for Voting Rights, the biggest and best chance District residents and their supporters will have to demand that Congress finally do something about our longstanding disenfranchisement. As we noted yesterday, you only need to take an hour off of work to support a worthy and principled cause.
But why should you? Well, on Friday we'll be listing the reasons we're heading out to march. But everyone is motivated by different things, be it principle, self-interest, anger or simply wanting to throw a chair through the front window of a Starbucks (though we're pretty sure this isn't on Monday's program). This tidbit from Mark Plotkin's chat at the Post yesterday flared our tempers, though, and it just might work for you. Reporting on Mayor Adrian Fenty's recent visit to White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, Plotkin had this to say:
I had a conversation with Mayor Fenty today which I want to report which did not get much play. The Mayor after meeting with Josh Bolton the President's Chief of Staff said last week that Bolton told him that he is never to raise the subject of DC voting rights with the President in any future conversation. That's arrogance for you.Indeed it is. And we shouldn't stand for it, much like we shouldn't stand for Rep. Louie Gohmert's (R-Tex.) assertion that D.C. doesn't need a representative because every member of Congress is already looking out for our interests. So if you want to let President Bush, Rep. Gohmert and the rest of Congress know how you feel, come on out to march on Monday, April 16.
Photo courtesy of D.C. Vote
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Sadly, I'll be out of town during the march. Any ideas on how best to show my support from the road? Maybe slap DC Vote bumper stickers on the cars wherever I go?
is fuckjoshbolton.com still available out there?
"Bolton told him that (Fenty) is never to raise the subject of DC voting rights with the President in any future conversation. That's arrogance for you."
Indeed yes, that's Arrogant Smirking Bushie for you.
Worst.
President.
Ever.
Since all of the US Congressmen and Senators are looking out for DC, then the next call to repair a pothole, or to report something that needs to be repaired or replaced in the city should be directed to one of the members of Congress who say they represent our interests.
I hope Fenty told Bolton to go screw himself.
You guys have fun out there marching for an unconstitutional measure that will get overturned by courts immediately if it ever affects the outcome of anything.
james, we will have fun. you have fun sitting in your tower of smugness. enjoy a big healthy bag of chips and douchebag salsa while you're at it.
nothing ever gets changed by not trying. we have to take this course to its logical end to attempt to induce change. so how about not being such a downer. i think the courts will probably shoot this bill down too, but we have to try first to make sure. then, when this attempt is exhausted, we can move all effort into another way of attacking this.