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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, [...]
Michelle Obama Supports Voting Rights for DC
Friday, April 9th, 2010First lady Michelle Obama answers Jim Vance’s question about DC voting rights. I admire Jim for asking the questions, and I like the First Lady’s repsonse as well…now we just need to get her husband more involved in the effort to give DC the representation is deserves in Congress!
You can send the President a message [...]
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 [...]
