Good morning, D.C. Thanks to all of you who came out to the Voting Rights Happy Hour last night. We had a great time meeting everyone and chatting about the future of full voting rights for D.C. Our friends and co-hosts at DC Vote were thrilled to be able to sign up so many new interested members and volunteers for their upcoming Voting Rights March on April 16, so thanks to them for coming out…
Leave your offices and go to Eighteenth Street Lounge! DCist Voting Rights Happy Hour kicks off at 6 p.m. Thanks to Flickr user kungpaocajun for use of his creative commons photo, and DCist Tom for his photoshopping skillz….
Isn’t it nice that you don’t have to wonder what you’ll be doing tonight? There’s just no question — you’ll be at tonight’s DCist Voting Rights Happy Hour, co-hosted by our friends at DC Vote. It’s true, a vote on the bill before the House has been delayed, but that’s all the more reason for us to gather tonight in solidarity for full voting rights for a congressional representative for the District. We need to…
Hoyer and Pelosi Need Your Input: Mike Panetta, D.C. Shadow Representative, informed us that voting rights activists are pushing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to bring the voting rights legislation that was derailed last week back to the floor of the House this week. They’re afraid that if it gets pushed off until next week, it may well get lost in the usual congressional shuffle. Panetta has…
Good morning, D.C. We’re all still recovering from yesterday’s lively debate on the House floor on the D.C. Voting Rights Act, which as you already know was successfully stalled by Republicans when they attempted to attach language repealing the District’s handgun ban to the bill. This morning tireless WaPo voting rights correspondent Mary Beth Sheridan brings us a full account, with word that “The bill’s supporters said they hope to return the D.C. vote legislation…
We’ve hosted a couple of outrageously fun events in the last few months, but recent discussion on the DCist staff email list had us pondering: when was the last time we threw a straight up happy hour? Because people like happy hours, and if DCist is about anything, it’s about giving the people what they want. Of course at this very moment we’re all glued to our televisions, tuned to C-SPAN watching general debate…