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Two Real World D.C. cast members at a DC Vote event in July.
Up to five Real World cast members have been doing volunteer work for DC Vote, the city's leading voting rights advocacy organization. They came in on a weekly basis, helping organize the Champions of Democracy dinner taking place in October and staffing tables at an event in July. One cast member, Ashley, appears to have been inspired by the cause, volunteering twice a week and bringing two other cast members with her, according to a source.
Members of Congress certainly won't start running to correct the District's disenfranchisement only because The Real World says so, but we can't underestimate the power of having a show on MTV communicate the mind-boggling stupidity of denying 600,000 people the right to a vote in Congress because of where they live. The D.C. voting rights movement has long lacked a national presence, and the more people across the country learn of the District's second-class status, the better the chance that they just might mention a little something about it to their own member of Congress. I'm not expecting that a whole episode of the show will be dedicated to our plight, but even sandwiching a few clips of DC Vote's work between roommate arguments and drunken hookups is something.
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That's cool. I hope it makes it to the show
Meh. It'll probably end up on the cutting room floor because MTV execs think the sequence won't resonate with their target audience the way drunken hookups and racebaiting do.
How about drunken hookups and race-baiting for voting rights? Sounds like quite an advocacy plan.
Throw in a couple of ethereal redheads and I'm there.
Don't sleep on the blond chick. I spit some game at her recently - she can get it.
Thanks Zack!
Didn't the one on the right just leave the house?
I hope this makes it into the show, I hope that it stirs up a few reactions and encourages Congress to finally let us have our fair share of the carnage that is congressional representation like everyone else in this country!
But, rumor has it that our very own Delegate Norton may be pulling a magic rabit out of her hat within the next few weeks which she's pretty confident about ;-) who knows, maybe we won't need Real World...
What have you heard???
I saw her in Sticky Rice getting all intimate with some bland looking fellow.
Wow, what's with the bombardment of posts over the past couple days, Martin? Are you freshly back from summering at your chateau in the Austrian alps?
Oh, and you can probably forget about MTV giving the voting representation issue any airtime on The Real World, unfortunately. MTV's audience hasn't given a damn about rocking the vote since '92.
Is Ashley the black, gay paraplegic, the honkey xenophobe, the cowboy redneck, the midwestern girl nexzt door, or the alcoholic, coke-head party girl?
YES! She's also a Nazi.
Happy to hear that they are doing that. Anything that helps bring more visibility to our status as 2nd class citizens helps. DC needs representation in both houses of Congress and given the Real World is seen by mostly younger people who probably aren't aware of our situation of taxation without representation, I think if it doesn't end up on the cutting room floor it helps the cause.