DCist: D.C.'s New Congressional Hero: Rep. Don Young

Hillman

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:17:19 -0500

"Hawaii gets a free pass; Magnum PI was the greatest show created .. by humans." It was everybody's dream - live for free on a lush waterfront estate with a pissy caretaker there for comic relief. I'm not sure but I think that's the thinking man's conceptual heaven.

Politburo

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:59:15 -0500

IMGoph: I'd lean towards the latter. I see where you're coming from, and I think I'd agree if all Young had said was "This wasn't a jury of his peers". But I think the argument he is making is clearly not racially based, but based on the disenfranchisement of DC citizens.

IMGoph

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:50:22 -0500

does anyone else think that there's a bit of a racial undertone in this, or am i just looking to stir up shit where nothing exists?

downtowndc

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:57:48 -0500

"It was in Washington, D.C. , which most people in Washington, D.C., don't look very favorably on the Congress because we run them." To semi-quote Val Kilmer- The residents of the District of Columbia are not stock-cars, nobody 'runs' them. Apologies to any and all stock-cars I might have overlooked.

titsonabull

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:47:05 -0500

i think bethesdaist has a point, despite actually being represented. i wonder what it would do if we all called their office just once a day asking what to have for lunch, or if you can wear blue socks with brown shoes, or why Alaskans seem to have a big ole hard on for corrupt, foolish, right wing nuts. probably nothing, but at least it might irritate him the way he irritates us. vote AIP!!! and heres an idea, maybe since were having people rule us from Russia's backyard, maybe we can rule them. DC voting rights in Alaska! then we can vote them out of the union and take their place as state 50. after all, their whole damn state only has 100k more people than the district, and they get paid to live there.

DrLRonHoover

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:29:30 -0500

Is it a requirement that to hold political office in Alaska you must be a criminal Republican dumbass?

boondoggle

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:27:08 -0500

I think y'all are missing the point. Alaska was granted statehood as a compromise and has been a failure since: residents still paid to live there (Alaska Permanent Fund), highest per capita federal spending, corrupt leadership, wanting to drill in ANWR when oil was at $35/barrel, etc. Now if DC were granted statehood, we're likely to make the same mistakes. Just put the words 'US Senator' in front of any given council member and climb aboard the fail bus. But the point is, we never got ours. So eff you and your patchy beard. -- Hawaii gets a free pass; Magnum PI was the greatest show created .. by humans.

lp2k

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:53:49 -0500

I agree. 50 percent chance he stays in D.C. 50 percent chance he moves to a country that doesn’t extradite.

cminus

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:24:33 -0500

So, what are the odds on Young staying in the area to work for a local lobby or policy shop if he loses the election, rather than going back to Alaska? I'd say better than 50/50.

woodstock

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:55:02 -0500

I'm glad to hear someone is running DC. Half the time it looks like no one is.

Reid

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:42:19 -0500

Yeah that's ridiculous. A DC jury isn't predisposed against all congressmen, they're predisposed against all republicans. And come January, there's not going to be very many of those left around here, so what's the big deal?

jbean

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:39:11 -0500

I like this part best: "[M]ost people in Washington, D.C., don't look very favorably on the Congress because we run them." Translation: "most people in Washington D.C. don't look very favorably on the Congress because we run them (AND WE DO A CRAP JOB OF IT)." Stop messing with our local decisions every once in awhile just to make some asinine political point, give us a vote, and we promise, Congress, we'll be your BFF.

Bethesdaist

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:29:40 -0500

IMGoph, since he said "we actually make decisions for them," I think you would call his office for input on every single decision you need to make for a day: what color socks to wear, tuna melt or ham & swiss for lunch, trenchcoat or windbreaker, carry and umbrella or no.... - heaven knows you can't be trusted with decisions, so Let Don Do It!

smperk

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:19:33 -0500

I honestly can't believe that race is even CLOSE. I'm guessing the projections will change after word spreads a little more of the guilty charge for T.Stevens. Keeping an old bag like this as a rep of Alaska is just trouble.

MikePanetta

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:16:34 -0500

Do something about it. Donate to Ethan Berkowitz: http://www.actblue.com/page/dumpdonyoung

ishmael

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:06:18 -0500

Suddenly I feel compelled to contribute to Young's opponent... Ethan Berkowitz, who evidently isn't doing half bad against Rep. douchebag.

Wizzyliz

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:00:33 -0500

Phoooooooot! You Hill People are nothing but a stinking pile of nepotized scoundrels!

IMGoph

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:50:23 -0500

god, i want to call his office so badly, but i just don't know what to say. anyone have some good ideas here? i'd really like to talk to papa young about getting the bike lanes finished on 14th street, but i wonder if he's ever left the 3 blocks around the capitol other than to drive to virginia. snooze-tag!

Jeslett

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:47:46 -0500

Have you ever seen a jury in DC? I served on one in Superior Court for 6 weeks and I can tell you Stevens was judged by a jury of his peers; they're all made up of old people. One woman was so confused she couldn't find her way out of the jury box. So yeah, it sounds about right for Ted the Tubes Stevens.

badtzmaru

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:42:47 -0500

Don Young is right. There's a reason DOJ filed the Ted Stevens case in DC and the William Jefferson case in Virginia. DOJ wants a conviction in the most favorable venue.

EdTheRed

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:37:22 -0500

He's right. I f*cking hate d-bags like him and Uncle Ted - I resent the fact that they're my colonial masters, and feel no shame about it. On the other hand, I recently served on a jury at the very same court where Uncle Ted was tried and convicted, and it was as impartial and responsible a group of citizens as you could hope to find to decide a case. So guess what? Now I hate Don Young even more.

gmg

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:33:29 -0500

I'm starting to think I'm with First Dude Palin on this whole "Alaska independence" thing.

registeringsucks

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:32:51 -0500

Stevens had the right to a bench trial if he deems us unworthy of being his peers.

MB

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:30:18 -0500

A veritable Douchebag for Liberty, it seems.

no_more_caffeine

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:28:25 -0500

A politician makes a stupid comment?! Stop the presses! *yawn*