Did you know the District has Shadow Senators????
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Anonymous
| What f'ing bitches. Oops, I mean narcissists. For many posters, no other poster will ever be right-- for asking/for not asking. They just get too much of a power trip and hard-on from making other people wrong. It's immature, yes, but it's a drug to them. Jerry Lewis once said 'you have to allow some people to be right: it consoles them for being nothing else. ' In this context, I take his words to mean not to let the bitches be right in their miserable criticism, but to acknowledge that they're like most other bullies, miserable and cowardly. Why not shake off the cowardice and brave it enough to try and connect and relate to people? It will cure some of your aloneness, then you won't have to use bitchiness to feel important because being commected will make you important. Try it, you'll like it more. |
Anonymous
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You're not alone, OP. I learned in 6th grade government class in a state far away from here that DC had shadow reps in Congress. But even having lived in and around DC for 20 years, I'd sort of assumed they'd been replaced by Eleanor Holmes Norton's Delegate position. I see now that they're just pointless lobbyists and not actually participants in Congress.
Why is D.C.’s nonvoting delegate allowed to participate in official business in the House of Representatives, but D.C.’s shadow senators aren’t allowed to participate in the official business of the Senate? You’re confusing the District’s mostly pointless elected representative with its entirely pointless ones. While Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton can serve on House committees, she’s denied a vote on full bills (and on virtually all business on the House floor when Republicans are in charge, as they are now). The District’s shadow senators and shadow representative, on the other hand, are unpaid lobbyists elected to push for D.C. statehood—but they’re essentially a figment of the District’s imagination as far as the actual rules of Congress are concerned. The District tried to get a delegatelike representative in the Senate in the ’70s, but the senators weren’t having it. Aside from a few privileges (access to the Senate dining room!), the shadow delegation isn’t recognized as a real thing outside of their basement offices in the Wilson Building. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13045117/why-does-dcs-nonvoting-delegate-have-more-power-than-its |
Anonymous
Are you dumb? The point is, she can make a big stink and stay in their faces. The shadow senators are a waste of money, but not the Congressional seat. Now, how effective Eleanor is is up for debate, but the seat is important. |
Anonymous
What? This is DC, you keep your ignorance to yourself. We don't tolerate those who are uninformed. |
Anonymous
How did that work out? It didn't seem to both DC's politico class that Jackson is a resident of Illinois. |
Anonymous
| City Paper did a good story a few years ago on the shadow senators and representatives, when the D.C. government was proposing to give them $1 million a year to spend: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13044509/shadow-of-a-doubt-dc-statehood-activists |
Anonymous
He was a DC resident for a long time. Lived near Howard University. |
Anonymous
True. His sons went to St. Albans. |