our ex-mayor has had his problem's but through it all he has been and still is the best advocate we ever had for the everyday people. his rant totally justified.
D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry may be smiling pretty for all the cameras transfixed on the unfolding Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. But today his unchecked rage about District statehood spectacularly boiled over onto his Twitter feed.“Yes, I am a Democrat. Always have been. But it’s time for Democrats to support the 600K disenfranchised US CITIZENS in DC. It is time!!” Barry declared in the opening salvo of what turned out to be an afternoon-long rant against voter suppression,horse trading and, rather unexpectedly, the Middle East.Our favorite broadsides include:• We’ve been bullied by Congress for too long; ignored by the Supreme Court too long; taken for granted by peers, for too long. It is time!• How can we tell others how to transition to democracy when every year we deny nearly a million people from voting in our own capital????
go ahead Mr. Barry
politicians have long used DC as their shelter in the storm even other republicans from other states want to regulate our laws. they don't pay tolls to come from Va. AND MD. all things they are liable for in other states they get to gote out in their favor not the citizen's of DC, our car tag's read "taxation without representation", because our Rep Mrs. Norton can't vote on policy that affects us.
unlike the lie of the T-Party we are really without representation of any meaning just a bone from congress.
