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.
June 22nd, 2006
I apologize in advance, as this post has a 60/40 rant to news ratio.
John “I didn’t inspire you last time but now I think I run the party” Kerry sent out an e-mail today titled “10 days that will get their attention,” outlining the Kerry Iraq Plan, which he will launch 4 days from now:
If Iraq’s leaders can’t move past their infighting and endless delays to form a new government by May 15, we should immediately withdraw all of our troops. If they meet the May 15 deadline, we’ll bring America’s combat troops home by the end of the year and put the future of democracy in Iraq where it belongs — in the hands of the Iraqi people.
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about withdrawing from Iraq, much less immediately, and the e-mail is full of irritating gems like this:
In these and many other ways, because of citizens like you, the wheel is slowly, but surely, turning on the question of Iraq. Over the next ten days, we’re going to give it another huge push. But, before I tell you more, please take a moment right now to sign in support of the Kerry Iraq plan.
Before I tell you more? At any rate, here’s the petition, if you’re into that kind of thing.
April 18th, 2006
