{"id":2162,"date":"2009-01-01T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2009-01-01T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T22:51:16","slug":"dc-vote-will-this-be-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/01\/dc-vote-will-this-be-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Vote: Will This Be the Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will this be the year that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2008\/12\/31\/with_obama_dc_residents_hope_for_a_voice\/?page=full\">DC residents get the same rights enjoyed by citizens in every state<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President-elect Barack Obama is an original cosponsor of the DC Voting Rights bill, which would turn the city&#8217;s congressional delegate, who has limited power, into a full-fledged member of the US House.<\/p>\n<p>Some are hoping Obama will also back measures eventually leading to statehood. The issue could be one of the first legislative initiatives of his presidency, and a test of his commitment to make life better for the district&#8217;s 581,000 residents, who on average pay some of the nation&#8217;s highest federal income tax bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That the title must be a question, rather than a statement, is a result of learned caution on the issue.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As usual, the Republicans can be counted on to lobby against the effort &#8211; they&#8217;ll give a dozen different reasons, but it always boils down to their simple opposition to additional Democratic representation.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But this Republican commitment to disenfranchisement shouldn&#8217;t let Democrats off the hook.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Democrats, as a party, haven&#8217;t put nearly enough effort into solving this issue as they should.\u00c2\u00a0 With control of Congress and the White House, however, there are no more excuses.\u00c2\u00a0 Make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>More about the issues and legislative efforts at <a href=\"http:\/\/dcvote.org\/\">DCVote.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will this be the year that DC residents get the same rights enjoyed by citizens in every state? President-elect Barack Obama is an original cosponsor of the DC Voting Rights bill, which would turn the city&#8217;s congressional delegate, who has limited power, into a full-fledged member of the US House. Some are hoping Obama will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-law","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}