The Onyx on First apartments

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics released the petition documents today of those individuals who filed initiative measure applications for the so-called “Marriage Initiative of 2009.” This is the petition put together by a group of D.C. area Baptist ministers, led by the outspoken Bishop Harry Jackson, who are seeking to put the question of whether to legalize same-sex marriage in the District up for a popular vote. Applicants for initiative measures to the BOEE are required to provide proof of D.C. residence, and the papers indicate that Jackson now claims to reside at 1100 First Street SE, Apt. 1310. That’s the Onyx on First luxury apartment building, right by the Navy Yard Metro station and not far from Nationals Park.

You may recall that the last time Jackson applied for a referendum measure with the D.C. BOEE, in April (an application which was denied), the pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md. claimed to live at the Whitman condo building, at 910 M Street NW, near the Washington Convention Center. The Washington Blade soon called into question whether Jackson, who owns two homes in Silver Spring, Md., really lived where he said he did. That condo was owned by a man named Joseph Honaker, according to the Blade. But with this latest application, Jackson now appears to be claiming that he moved at some point over the summer.

Seven other men filed residency affidavits and petitions to the BOEE alongside Jackson: Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, Apostle James Silver, Rev. Dale E. Wafer, Melvin Dupree, Rev. Anthony Evans, Robert King, and Elder Howard Butler. You can download the entire document for yourself, in .PDF form, from the BOEE website.

Calls this afternoon to the number listed on Jackson’s application went straight to voicemail, with a woman’s voice on it, which may or may not be an automatically generated outgoing message.