D.C. Rep’s DNC Speech

All eyes were on Sen. Hillary Clinton as she made Tuesday night’s headlining speech . “No way. No how. No McCain. Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be our president,” she said. But for those of us in D.C., there was another speech to have our eyes on. One from our non-voting representative in Congress, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. As she did in a speech four years ago at the DNC, she once again made the case for the D.C. Voting Rights Act , which allows tax-paying District residents to have the same representation in Congress the 50 states enjoy. The nation’s founders staked everything on creating a country where there would be “no taxation without representation” anywhere in America. In that tradition, Democrats proudly support the vote in Congress for the 600,000 citizens of our nation’s capital. The District of Columbia is not yet the 51st state, but no one can doubt that the revolutionaries who invented America’s...