BTD is a tough cat to read. Is he blogging about this because he’s concerned about Florida and Michigan? Or does he just like the attention? The good news is that if BTD really feels disenfranchised, he can campaign for voting rights for our nation’s capital. It’s easy to forget after a bruising primary like this, but those of us that live in Our Fair City, DC, don’t get a vote in congress. That’s not just during the Democratic Party primary. That’s all the time.
Btw, where was BTD in 2004 when DC moved up it’s primary to vote for Howard Dean, and got the same treatment that Michigan and Florida did in this election? (Okay, the punishment was to make the vote “non-binding,” but if the issue is making every vote count, it’s hard to see how that differs from MI and FL in any practical way.) You can read about it here.
If Alternative Hippopotamus has ever linked to the DC Vote site and written about our situation, I have not seen it. Nor have I ever seen diaries on the community sites. Maybe there have been and I just wasn’t reading that day.
If you go look at the past speakers for DC Drinking liberally, you will look in vain for DC Vote, Empower DC, or any other LOCAL group. It is as if DC were a foreign country. Or as my father used to say, the problem with liberals is that they’re not liberal. Nor has any of the DCDL crowd taken any notice of the disaster capitalism that is being visited on our local school system.
Here are some people you won’t see invited to DCDL:
Save our Neighborhood Schools, or those who merely blog about schools
The LOCAL CWA
The LOCAL SEIU
Because the DCDL crowd is much too important to pay attention to their own city.
Some people are from Washington, some people are from DC. Tale of two cities,