Maybe our good friend Steve King has been too busy trying to stop immigrant voters from exercising their rights to realize that nearly 600,000 U.S. citizens are denied representation in Congress because they live in the Nation’s Capital.
Heck, most of them they speak English too!
Indeed, King and his colleagues in the House Judiciary Committee seem intent on letting the “DC Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act of 2006,” which would give the District of Columbia a voting member of the House of Representatives, rot while the session expires.
If the bill stalls, the best chance DC has had in years will pass.
Don’t let that happen! You can email King or write a letter to your local paper urging him to make sure every citizen has the rights they deserve. If he really is concerned with our election process, maybe he’ll come around.
And if he does, I’m sure King, who once called DC more dangerous than Iraq , will find the city a little more obliging.
Steve King is delaying the renewal of the federal Voting Rights Act by pushing for an end to multilingual ballots. Apparently letting citizens understand whom they’re voting for is “driving a wedge between cultures.” Steve King isn’t all asshole though; yesterday he apologized for calling Helen Thomas ugly.
Now that Karl Rove is free of indictements, he has some spare time to spend campaigning for Mike Whalen and Jeff Lamberti here in Iowa. Thank god for that.
Cityview answers all of your eminent domain questions, and then some. If that’s not enough, Chris Woods ponders what the Legislature’s next move may be.
According to an article in the Globe Gazette, some Iowa Democrats are hankering for a little Obama ‘08 action. It strikes me as unusual to find an entire news story about someone not visiting Iowa, which says something about Obama’s popularity (and about how demanding Iowans are). Here’s an interesting Nation article on Obama’s progressive stalwart potential.
A study conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest gave Iowa a failing grade on school nutrition. Harkin has been pushing for national school nutrition standards for years. I could make a crack about Iowa feeding the world, but I’ll let you imagine one for yourself.
