Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Gadfly to the Disenfranchised: Drop Dead

Per Edwize, James Forman Jr. rightly takes the Gadfly to task for the "illogical, bizzare, and offensive" notion that District of Columbia residents don't deserve representation in Congress because our current elected non-voting representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, opposes a Congressionally-mandated school voucher program opposed by most DC residents. Nothing to add, other than to note that the original legislation authorizing the DC voucher program passed Congress by one vote -- the one vote that we, the only capital city residents of any democracy in the world who are unrepresented in the national legislature, don't have.

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