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In a June 20, 2010 editorial, the Washington Post editorial board pushes for a dead end - the "D.C. Voting Rights Act" and disses District residents' desire to regain their full democratic rights by having the commercial and residential areas of the District admitted to the union as the 51st state. Statehood is the only way to regain our rights that Congress stole from us over two centuries ago that the voters of D.C. have ever approved.
Statehood activists Charles Cassell, Sen. Michael D. Brown, Elinor Hart, Ann Loikow and Anne Roberts respond to the Post. It is noteworthy that the Ward Three Democratic Committee, which strongly endorsed statehood last year, overwhelming voted on June 17, 2010 to support D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's major rival in the Democratic primary, Douglas Sloan, a strong supporter of statehood.
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In the June 10, 2010 edition of the Washington Post, Mike DeBonis writes that "(w)ith a seven-year effort to win a House of Representatives vote for the District now foundering, officials and activists are starting to wonder how to proceed with the city's decades-long fight for congressional representation. The answer that's emerging, in candidate forums this campaign season and in the city budget, is an old one: statehood."
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When the D.C. Council passed the District of Columbia's 2011 budget on May 26, 2010, they included $250,000 for statehood and voting rights activities, an increase from the $100,000 allotted in 2010 which went to the Council's Special Committee on Statehood and Self-Determination. Mayor Adrian Fenty's proposed 2011 budget had not included any funding for statehood activities despite the Council's creation this year of the 51st State Commission which is in the process of being organized. Statehood activists from the around the District thank the Council for putting statehood back on the District Government's agenda! |
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