Congress' Bitch Takes to the Streets of Denver!

Was it just me, or did most of the Democratic Convention look like a Nationals game, where all the fans knew we were going to lose by the 2nd inning and took to the aisles to hunt down the nearest purveyor of booze and hot dogs? Those were some BORING looking speakers...UNTIL...Hillary. Thank god. It's like she hit the home run that the convention needed to justify the ungodly amount they probably spent on that set.

That aside...we District residents may have been the bastard child at the convention, but that doesn't mean we didn't make our voices heard!

For those of you who don't already know, one of the District's most endearing characteristics is its sad state of political representation. You see, they were cunning back when they created Washington, "District" of Columbia because they made it sound like a classy girl. With all the other islands that we clobbered (mostly during WWII), we just labeled them territories and handed their oversight over to some inept bureaucrats at the Dept. of Interior (oh yes...much of their administration is up to the DOI...i'm not kidding: http://www.doi.gov/oia/). But somehow...the fair city of Washington became the regal "District of Columbia." God only knows where they pulled that from, but in reality....it still means we're Congress' bitch.

We have one non-voting member of Congress. We still get taxed. And, Congress pretty much has plenary power over everything we do. But, we persevere. And, we protest:

At the DENVER MINT!!

This is a peach of a story from our friends at DCist. I will be the FIRST to buy one of these quarters:

Rally at U.S. Mint to Go Ahead Without Permit

DC Vote just sent around an email to all their supporters to remind them of their planned event outside the U.S. Mint in downtown Denver. The rally (protest? gathering?) is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. From the announcement:

We will host a peaceful rally outside the Denver Mint and pass out wooden coins to the public because the mint rejected the DC government's request to imprint the words "taxation without representation" on DC's quarters and because…

"American democracy isn't worth a wooden nickel without a vote in Congress!"

D.C. Wire reported on Monday that the event's organizers were running into a little trouble getting the appropriate permit from the city of Denver...