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good afternoon everybody david shuster here and take action news this is the
final weekend of january a special welcome everybody listening to us over
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also to our man rich webster vice president charger board operations retro
welcome to u president all baba has officially started his second term a
and for everybody i was wondering how you might feel about democracy in the
district of columbia listen
to this
uh... to africa from the americas to the middle east because our impressed at our
conscience
compel us to act on behalf about all for freedom
we will support democracy from asia to africa
but was there a shout out for the district of columbia the six hundred and
thirty two thousand residents who do not have a vote in congress who do not have
democracy for them
the answer is
the president decided not to give any sort of short out out out to the
district of columbia were to any legislation that's now pending that
would give d_c_ residents
representation keep in mind we we started the revolutionary war because of
taxation without representation galileo's you surprise the disappointed
would you make of it
wilsonville not surprised at all because no president in united states history to
my knowledge has used the inaugural address
to speak to the issue of black of the market the district of columbia and of
course is supported
because this is an issue of bizarre democracy if we don't have
representation for all american citizens
there's no point in even talking about the issues of voter i_d_ and all the
various other crackdowns of people have already have democratic rights
let alone talking about exporting its other countries
in the middle east asia in africa and i think it's a travesty and it's
hypocritical and and this president i can't think that that he should know
better and and and but i do believe that
president obama is any president
would be capable and willing to do it she would it is important to give credit
where credit is due brazil has taken some symbolic steps
uh... such as he recently announced that they they were he was putting the
taxation without representation license plates on the presidential motorcade and
on all the vehicles used by the white house
atanasio stir and it's certainly better after
toward bush refused to do it
we we need more than that we need substance yeah i have one of my
colleagues on the airplane day on sale we should give him some credit in yassin
a license plates are nice but it just it seems that in a state of the president
was so
courageous and when you talk about that a couple of minutes when a syndicated
stations join issues so courageous on climate change on gay rights
anywhere that we are no president has gone before that if you're going to go
for it why not go forward the district of columbia i mean the president has
already signaled that he supports some level of democracy some representation
for d_c_ why not say that the citizens of these seem to represent you know have
a greater population in two states have law group group gross domestic product
than twenty states who contribute more federal tax revenue and twenty nine
states they ought to have a representation in this building behind
me
you might have gotten some criticism from people saying oclc bob i was really
going up a reservation up it's a lot democrats would have loved it
the president's party getting hammered for what he said about global warming
for about gay rights
so why not do something to source a ok i'm saying d_c_ residents they should
have representations stated well maybe that's another issue but they should
have a vote in congress it just seems to me like it would have been a
controversial
no you're absolutely right area and i think that uh...
you talk about
the issue of of d_c_ representation and
there has been some leadership
in this congress ironically
from the chairman of the government oversight committee generalize uh...
strike wrigley conservador public in from california who's in charge of
monitoring approving the district of columbia's budget has made major
progress in giving the district of columbia greater latitude over its own
budget
making the process of approval for his budget morally nundi and easier to go
through
it would be a shame it would be a night and irony
it's the president
were offstage by conservative republican and one of his foes in congress such as
their elisa i would just add one thing though david is not on the president at
but we had congresswoman's eleanor holmes norton on the show and what is
she tell it she told us that all politics is activism
and this is not an issue that progressives in particular have made a
priority nationwide and if we organize and we think we have to say to make
politicians do it that's when we can hope
to move the dog
absolutely on the fact of the matter is what they realize people around this
country are not familiar with the situation in d_c_ and that is
allegedly told a city muster voting representation right what no they don't
have the fact that matters is not just representation but as you pointed out
but i mean that d_c_ budgets have to be reviewed
and approved by congress to look for example a few years ago in d_c_ was
passing up three had a free needle exchange chahta reduce the rate of aids
among activist congress had
when i confront now
and what could be saved and so it's it's a situation that needs to be rectified
and i think suppose the first lady do that is where to get everybody around
the country
about the situation as it stands and that's right the political leaders they
could certainly do a better job we're gonna pose pop i would appall closed and
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