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[quote=Anonymous]Eleanor is the very REASON DC residents don’t have a vote in Congress today. They would’ve had it in 1995, if she’d agreed to Gingrich’s deal. A vote for DC, plus another seat in Utah, and DC gave up its ban on handguns. That was the deal. She wouldn’t go for it. Gun ban was more important to her than a vote in Congress. Then the Heller case went to the USSC in ‘04, and just nine years after she refused the deal to give the city a vote in Congress in exchange for doing away with the handgun ban, the handgun ban was overturned and a constitutional precedent was set. She could’ve prevented that case from ever happening AND got a vote in Congress if she’d just taken the deal. It’s her ultimate legacy of failure. Poetic justice. [/quote]
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