Voting Rights Act
DC Voting Rights & the State of the Union
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010DC Vote has been making an aggressive push to get President Obama to address the lack of representation in Congress for the District of Columbia during his State of the Union address. They recently dropped off 41,000 petitions to be delivered to the White House at a Capitol Hill post office. It was a lot [...]
Mike Panetta on the Silver Screen
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009I was interviewed for a documentary about DC’s lack of voting representation called a “An Un-Natural State” few years ago, and the movie was released earlier this summer. It has some choice shots of me cruising the Potomac river and at the National Capital Curling Center – and even in my back yard.
There’s going to [...]
Now What?
Friday, October 30th, 2009It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog – the bill in Congress had stalled after the poison pill “gun amendment” was added in the Senate and that’s where it still is as there doesn’t seem to be a path out of the House with it stripped off.
I’ve also had some technical issues with [...]
