Why ceding the moral high ground on D.C. voting rights didn’t work
Last spring, senators passed the D.C. House Voting Right Act, but not before those who bow to the National Rifle Association—i.e., most of them—attached an amendment gutting city gun regulations. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s hope that the House would pass a clean bill, allowing the gun amendment to be stripped in conference committee, was misplaced. The NRA’s 4 million-plus members outweighed D.C.’s 600,000 residents.
In the last week, the question was, whose dream was driving the voting-rights effort? The city’s dream of a say in Congress? Or Norton’s dream of casting her first floor vote?
Mike Debonis of the City Paper on “Why ceding the moral high ground on D.C. voting rights didn’t work“
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