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Saturday, June 12th, 2010The DC Democratic State Committee held a “straw poll’ on June 12th that was open to all DC Democrats during their state convention. Mike Panetta won the “Shadow” U.S. House poll with 40% of the votes in a 6-way race.
“Thanks to all the Democrats who came out on a hot, sweaty Saturday to support my efforts.
I truly appreciate the vote of confidence in what I’m doing for congressional representation and statehood,” said Panetta.
DC Voting Rights Action Tomorrow – RSVP Today
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010From my friends at DC Vote. I won’t be able to attend, but I hope you can make it:
Are you frustrated with how pro-gun special interests have hijacked the issue of DC voting rights? What are you going to do about it?
Are you ready for more direct action and aggressive tactics? So is DC [...]
DC Voting Rights Act on House Floor Next Week
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Looks like we’re back in business! The Washington Post is reporting that the DC Voting Rights Act could come to a vote on the House floor as “early as” next week.
According to the article:
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the city’s non-voting House member, said she is still negotiating to try to weaken the gun amendment, [...]
Statehood Stakeholder’s Meeting on Jan. 19
Friday, January 15th, 2010The Statehood Stakeholder Committee has now has several subcommittees to manage the planning and implementation of several activities in furtherance of our push for full democracy and statehood. I’ll be very active in this process (of course) and I encourage others to get involved as well. There is a lot of renewed energy from the [...]
Trouble for Colonialist at the Capitol
Monday, November 23rd, 2009I’m a little late in writing about this, but I wanted to make sure I got it into my blog “for the record”.
As you may recall, last week I wrote about a hearing that was taking place on Capitol Hill about the the issue of Congressional oversight “in all cases whatsoever” in local matters within [...]
