DC Voting Rights

[fabrisse]

The Senate passed the bill. The House is holding it up because they want to turn it into a litmus test for gun control.

Please, everyone, call your representative and ask that your friend Fabi be allowed to vote for a voting representative in congress. In a city with somewhere between five hundred thirty and six hundred thousand people (depending on whose estimate is used), it is a crime that we don't have the most basic Constitutional right of representation.

Most of us don't want to be a state; we just aren't geographically big enough. True we're bigger than Monaco, but I don't think we're as big as Andorra, and we sure as hell don't meet the size of Luxembourg.

Even more of us don't want to be subsumed into Maryland. Some in Maryland would love to get our taxes, but, frankly, most Maryland residents don't want us any more than we want to be part of them.

This bill is only for DC voting rights. I would like to see Guam, Puerto Rico, and the other three areas with non-voting representatives be allowed representation in Congress as well. Sadly, I can't ask my Congresswoman to support voting rights for others as she has none herself.

Comments

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

I was all set to contact my rep when I found out that the bill had been amended to include the Second Amendment Enforcement Act. IMO this should never have been added as it has nothing to do with giving you a vote, but it is done now. So do we still try to get the bill passed, even at the risk of semiautomatic weapons legally out on your streets? Grrr. Why can't they vote for one thing at a time instead of playing these games?

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

That's what I meant when I said the Republicans are using this as a gun control litmus test. Please ask your representative to vote for the bill anyway.

I don't think we need handguns on our streets, but since the alternative is no say in the legislature, I have to go with give our legislator a vote.

Then I can put pressure on my legislator to vote to amend the gun laws. Right now, those of us in DC have no recourse.