It’s been somewhat quiet on the D.C. voting rights front in recent weeks, but that doesn’t mean that the advocacy and education isn’t marching along. On Wednesday night, the folks at DC Vote will be screening Un-Natural State, a newish documentary made by local filmmakers Kirk Mangels and Brad Mendelsohn that highlights the District’s longstanding disenfranchisement. The viewing will include a discussion with former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who along with D.C. Del. Eleanor…

Where have you gone, Louie Gohmert? Way back, you said that “Washington, D.C. is also the only city in the entire country that every senator and every member of Congress has a vested interest in seeing that it works properly, that water works, sewer works, and no other city in America has that.” The only reason we ask is to see if you could kinda tap on Sen. Tom Coburn’s office door and sorta ask…

Good morning, Washington. Well, this is it: the holidays are finally, tragically over. You’re once again sitting at your desk. And now we begin the slow, terrible death march toward spring, with only brief, inadequate celebrations of Presidents’ and MLK Day to sustain us. Stay strong, D.C. — we’ll get through this. Can You Hear Me Now? Hello? Hello?: The ball dropped, the phones came out and… nothing. “Y2K8 Bug” doesn’t sound very catchy,…

When in the closing days of 2006 we looked back on the year in D.C. voting rights, we optimistically hoped that 2007 would finally be the year that saw some movement on enfranchising the District’s residents. Movement, yes; resolution, not so much. So as we wind down 2007, we’re again left hoping that maybe the coming year will be the one. The primary mover in the D.C. voting rights movement in 2007 was legislation…

Welcome back, Washington. We hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a holly and/or jolly one, and that your stock of material possessions has been satisfactorily increased. As you might expect, not too terribly much happened while you’ve been away. Davis Mulls Eighth Term: Sure, it was published yesterday, but we imagine many of you may have missed the Post’s analysis of whether Tom Davis will seek another term as congressman for Northern…

The Associated Press is reporting that former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore has officially announced he is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. John Warner. Gilmore announced his candidacy by posting a video to YouTube. The formal announcement sets up Gilmore as the presumed Republican nominee for the seat, as the other leading candidate, Rep. Tom Davis (Va.-R), announced last month that he would not seek the seat. Gilmore will…

Good morning, Washington. Make it to the polls yesterday? If so, we hope you did so before the sun went down — it got cold in a hurry last night, as the area rapidly moved from warmer-than-usual temps to colder-than-usual ones. CapitalWeather is saying that the weekend should be warmer, at least. Election 2007: The results are in, and it looks like it was a good night for Virginia’s Democrats. The Dems picked up…

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) has decided not to seek the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) next year. The Post is reporting that Davis will announce formally on Thursday what his plans are, but sources have indicated that he won’t look to take on a number of potential Republican contenders or former Governor Mark Warner for the seat. Davis reportedly doesn’t want his run to overshadow a tough re-election contest faced by…

And so it was — the U.S. Senate voted today 57-42 in favor of closing debate on legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives, three short of what was needed to prevent a Republican-led filibuster. The measure, which passed the House in April, is now likely dead, and another attempt to correct a 200-year injustice has been thwarted. Of course, the legislation could be re-introduced, but it won’t…

Popular former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner formally announced today that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. John Warner. The announcement immediately give the Democrats a strong frontrunner in a race that would help solidify a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, and makes the possibility of two Democrats representing the Commonwealth of Virginia for the first time since 1970 highly likely. No other serious Democrat is likely to…