This is why DC doesn’t have a voting member of Congress
The residents of DC send complete knuckleheads to Congress whenever they get the opportunity to vote, that’s why they have no vote in Congress. When they thought they were getting two Senate seats when Clinton took office, DC residents had a straw election to prepare for the event – they elected Jesse Jackson who isn’t even a resident of DC to be their senator.
Take this complete moron Eleanor Holmes Norton that is their non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. With all of our economic woes, wars with no end in sight, homeless lining the streets, she wants us all to dance away our troubles;
The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today revealed two Norton efforts that she believes respond to the recent insistence of people to dance on the National Mall, an indication, she says, of public frustration with the underuse of the Mall for people-related activities. The Congresswoman, in conjunction with “So You Think You Can Dance” producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe, the Dizzy Feet Foundation and the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, will host National Dance Day on Saturday, July 30, 2011, on the National Mall.
Yeah, the Park police shut down the Mall for a lot of these types of activities because of the criminal element that the events attracted. A workmate tells me that a woman was sexually assaulted in front of her family on the National Mall a few years back.
So what inspired her to advance this new project and why would I mention it on a Milblog? Adam Kokesh and Medea Benjamin;
Norton said she was glad that police showed restraint and avoided arrests of people dancing at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, but understood the frustration of some tourists who were cleared from the Lincoln Memorial for a period of time. A lawsuit, which would-be dancers lost in the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2011, and the arrests of dancers at the Lincoln Memorial last week have not stopped the desire of people to dance on the Mall, however.
Now that’s inspirational. The Footloose Remake reaches Stage Two.
Thanks to Suzie for the tip.
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If d.c. is granted rights it must be given back to maryland and be part of it again as happened in 1846 with the portions of Northern Virginia that used to be part of D.C. reverting back to Virginia
Agree with LarryT. Of course, Maryland could always sell the district to the ChiComs.
And here I thought having a separate District of Columbia was because of the abuses of the Federal government received from the states that hosted it: Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York.
History must be too hard.
when I heard her on the radio on my morning commute, I almost crashed…
How many times has Marion Berry been elected to public office?
#4
Not enough to stay out of jail, but just enough to stay out of prison.
There are rules for reason. Who wants to be at The Wall remembering those who’ve gone on before while these scraggly hippies are “dancing”?
So, if I were to have a dozen or so friends of mine show up and use their ball bats to beat the living tar out of these dancers as a form “performance art”, would we be able to get a grant to cover our expenses?
Just asking
Tim, I’ll put in a call to my congress critter, to see if he can help out with your grant. And, I’ll bring my Louisville Slugger, too.
DC, is not, and was never intended to be a state, or represented as such, that was quite clear in its founding. Since we’re on the subject, as the only federal enclave (to my knowledge) it is horribly mismanaged, and one of the most crime ridden cities in America. So much for the Federal Gov’t doing a better job.