It was 234 years ago Sunday that American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor as part of a symbolic protest against being taxed by the British while not having a representative in the Westminster Parliament. Yesterday District voting rights activists remembered the event by holding their own tea party, this one to protest the union’s last standing example of taxation without representation. Though the wind whipped across the Potomac River, about 80 activists and…

At the DNC convention in Boston today, some of of the District’s brightest political lumniaries participated in an age-old practice of protesting taxation without representation by what they’re calling a “Second Boston Tea Party” by dumping North Carolina tea into Boston Harbor. The D.C. Delegation to the convention, according to the Post, includes 45 people: 3 pledged to Dean, 12 to Kerry, 5 to Al Sharpton, and the rest uncommitted. The issue of D.C. voting…