Per Government Order- This Post Only in English
June 22nd, 2006 at 01:40pm Alec
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.
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8 Comments Add your own
1. IA-05: Steve King is an a&hellip | June 23rd, 2006 at 10:50 am
[…] Alec over at Iowa Progress notes (with the greatest post title ever) how Steve King and other Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are working to make sure that DC’s 600,000 voters say disenfranchised. […]
2. down with tyranny | June 23rd, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Alec, do you have some reason to believe that Congress’ biggest jackass would care about anyone’s e-mail? This guy seems so filled with rage and hatred that I don’t think he’d even care about what his camapign funders have to say– and, for a Republican, that is the ultimate!
3. Molly | June 25th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I agree.
4. Alec | June 27th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Some reason to believe he might listen? Maybe a faint hope in the vitality of our democracy?
Look—he’s a politician, which means he has constituents. If he didn’t listen to them at least some of the time, he would be out of office. Just don’t make it clear in your letter that you wouldn’t vote for him in a million years. (Dear Mr. King, I have been a loyal supporter of yours since you were in swaddling clothes. That’s why I was so shocked when I heard…)
And since the bill also gives Utah another seat in the House, mere partisanship alone can’t kill the proposal. Neither party will gain, only democracy will.
Want another reason to use with King? The bill, which adds two new members to the House, could (this is just now occuring to me and is highly speculative) dilute the population requirement enough to help Iowa keep a House seat come next census. And if district lines are safe, there’s a better chance the man will keep his job for a long time.
So there you go, it might help Iowa out AND help him out (at the very least it won’t hurt) which could be more convincing than wimpy calls for justice and the defense of American values.
Email him.
5. CR | June 27th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
The following report shows that, in general, personalized messages do affect undecided legislators:
http://www.cmfweb.org/cwcsummary.asp
Whether they affect King is an open question.
6. matt | July 6th, 2006 at 10:28 am
7. Nicolai Brown | July 7th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
What’s the difference between Steve King and the Klan?
8. Iowa Progress » Ste&hellip | January 18th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
[…] Steve King who has a reputation as being one of the craziest Congressmen in the House of Representatives (which quite an achievement considering his competition) is back and better than ever in the 110th Congress. His previous greatest hits range from working to keeping 600,000 American citizens from voting to registering a bold protest against the use of condoms to fight Aids in Africa. (Since after all, condoms promote AIDS). That’s right, on June 28, 2005, Steve King gave a speech in Congress attacking the establishment of a “condom culture” in Africa. He warned that once you create this “condom culture,” it can lead to “the elimination… of abstinence until marriage and monogamy after that” […]
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