The D.C. Republican Party has never been particularly strong. The city’s demographic reality tends to work against the GOP. (The Post says that President Bush and Vice President Cheney only got 18,073 votes of 205,748 votes cast in the District in 2000.) Carol Schwartz and David Catania are D.C.’s only GOP city councilmembers. And they aren’t going to New York for the Republican National Convention.

First off, David Catania, who has said he will vote for Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in November because of President Bush’s stance on a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, isn’t going because the D.C. GOP chair doesn’t want him there, the Post says. So she booted him from the D.C. GOP delegation.

And Carol Schwartz, whose 32-year-old son is “organizing an anti-Bush national bus tour by Hollywood artists and entertainers” isn’t going to New York show respect for Catania.

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