http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/07/10/fox-hosts-outraged-at-non-citizen-voting-in-dc/204361
Fox's Outnumbered roundly denounced a proposal that would allow permanent residents in the District of Columbia to vote in local elections, lamenting that it undermines the notion of American citizenship while ignoring that D.C. citizens do not have a vote in Congress.
On July 8, D.C. legislators discussed a bill that would allow U.S. permanent residents, or green card holders, the right to vote in local elections. According to WAMU, advocates of the proposal suggest the measure would give a "formal voice" to permanent residents who already pay taxes.
Discussing the bill on the July 10 edition of Outnumbered, host Sandra Smith remarked that "[y]ou are not an American citizen so you don't have the right to vote. Period." Andrea Tantaros agreed, calling D.C.'s measure "lunacy" as Harris Faulker claimed that her "sensibilities are offended by the fact that we don't at least respect where we come from." Fox contributor Julie Roginsky went on to ask "[w]hat does it mean to be an American citizen if not that you have the privilege of voting for the representative government that you want?"
But Roginsky's question ignores that all residents of the District of Columbia, citizen and non-citizen alike, are not represented by a voting member of Congress. D.C. is represented in Congress by a non-voting delegate, currently Eleanor Holmes-Norton, who cannot vote on the House floor. DC Vote, a group that advocates for D.C. voting rights, points out that citizens in the District "pay federal taxes, fight and die in wars, and serve on juries, yet are denied voting representation in Congress," and that Congress has the final say over their laws. According to The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, over 600,000 people live in DC -- more than the state of Wyoming-- and its residents pay $1.6 billion in federal taxes each year.
as most of you know i'm a resident of DC our vehicle tags say "taxation without representation" which those on the right have ignored and deny us a congressional vote on the floor. they periodically come in from other states and try to dictate laws to us while rabidly defending states rights granted those rights are for the Governors to do whatever they want to their constituents.
i also think there would be tariffs and tolls and state taxes for those same politicians who don't live here and commute like parts of Va. where there are toll roads. bottom line they get a free ride some might say because the work here but so do thousands of others they harp on constitutional rights as long as they benefit them or their benefactors. it is a tyrannical effort by congress to keep DC a none state subject to them.
i think that maybe started because DC was mostly Black and as we know that attitude of jim crow now a more sophisticated Mr. James Crow is still of the same mindset. but now DC is getting an influx of young Whites and they are once again moving poor and elderly out of occupied neighborhoods for decades.
DC will change in demographics no longer will congress allow it to be called "Chocolate City" with it's Vanilla suburbs guess that depends on how long the new residents put up with no representation. sorry got off topic as to non-citizen voting again falls in favor of the party that doesn't spend it's time trying to figure out ways to deny them entry let alone a vote.
