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