http://www.mikepanetta.com Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:43:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently got a DC flag tattoo at Tattoo Paradise in Adams Morgan, and it was documented in a great video by Brandon Bloch. I was joined at the tattoo studio by former ANC commissioner and candiate for DC Council, Bryan Weaver who got a cool Mayan "13" that was ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2011/06/getting-some-ink-for-dc-statehood/ Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) entered the names of the 41 people who got arrested standing up for the self-governing rights of the American citizens who reside in the nation's capital by sitting down in a peaceful act of civil disobedience on Constitution Avenue last week. I was honored ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2011/04/congresswoman-elanor-norton-salutes-the-dc41/ As I feared, late last night President Obama and Congressional Democrats acquiesced to the GOP and allowed the harmful riders on DC's appropriation bill in order to stop a government shutdown and save family planning funding in the national budget. In doing so they basically threw 600,000 Americans under the ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2011/04/can-someone-take-this-knife-out-of-my-back/ I testified before Councilmember Michael A. Brown's committee today on a proposal to re-name part of Pennsylvania Avenue and the District's gateway signage to promote DC Statehood. My remarks before the committee are listed below. If you have any suggestions on names for the street, please submit  them in the ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2011/01/mike-panettas-testimony-on-renaming-portion-of-pennsylvania-ave-to-promote-dc-statehood/ I was on Capitol Hill today lobbying to keep our vote in the Committee of the Whole. You can take action at http://www.dcvote.org/ or call John Boehner at his local office in Westchester, OH at 513-779-5400 and ask that the DC Delegate vote in the Committee of the Whole be ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2011/01/lobbying-to-preserve-the-vote-in-the-committee-of-the-whole/ A few people asked me to post my speech from my swearing-in ceremony on Sunday. Here it is below, it's not exactly as delivered, but close enough. If anyone has a photo of my giving the 51-start flag to Delegate Norton, please send it to me! REMARKS OF "SHADOW" U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2011/01/mike-panettas-remarks-on-statehood/ I’ll be sworn in for a third term as “Shadow” U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia this Sunday, January 2nd, at 1:00. The swearing-in ceremony takes place at 1:00 at the Washington Convention Center. I invite you to join me as I re-affirm my commitment to statehood, full ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2010/12/swearing-in-details-for-shadow-representative-mike-panetta/ I was recently on NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt on NewsChannel 8. I was on with fellow New Englander turned District of Columbia politico, Patrick Mara. Here's a highlight of the show: http://www.mikepanetta.com/2010/12/mike-panetta-on-newtalk-with-bruce-depuyt/ I wanted to take a minute and post an entry today to show my support to Mary Cheh for the Ward 3 Council seat. Mary has been a powerful and restless advocate on the Council and the type of legislator that should make us proud. She led the effort to reform our ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2010/10/i-support-mary-cheh/ It was a late night Tuesday, but I was re-elected to a third term as the "Shadow" U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia. It feels really good to have the voters of DC give me another two years to continue what I am doing, and I won't let them ... http://www.mikepanetta.com/2010/09/thank-you-for-your-support/