Here’s a weird one from a few days ago in the Hill. If I’m reading this correctly, a DC group is going to do anti-Travis Childers ads in Mississippi the basis of which is this: That by pushing through a pro-gun-ownership-in-DC bill through Congress, Childers is undercutting the voting rights of folks in DC.
Without regard to how one feels about the DC gun owner statute the Supreme Court struck down, who is thinking exactly what in deciding to run this ad?
A Washington D.C. voting rights group launched an ad campaign directed at Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.) on Friday.
Childers is a supporter of a gun amendment that would loosen D.C.’s gun registration laws, which, after passing the Senate, has stalled a bill in the House that would grant the District a representational vote in Congress.
“Representative Childers has gone too far in his attempts to write DC gun laws,” said Ilir Zherka, DC Vote executive director. “We think his constituents need to know how he is spending his time. His constituents elected him to act as their voice in Congress. But what he, and other pro-gun politicians are doing, is expending their energy to write DC’s laws. We’re going to states like Mississippi to tell constituents that their member of Congress is standing in the way of DC’s right to democracy.”
The ad campaign is planning to place ads in local Mississippi media outlets, and is expected to do the same in Neveda, where Sen. John Ensign (R), the sponsor of the Senate’s gun amendment, is from.
“We’re going to send a clear message to members of Congress,” said Zherka. “You mess with the District and we’re coming after you. We will not allow you to stand in the way of our basic civil right to voting representation in Congress and full local democracy.”
Zherka noted that DC Vote has traveled to Mississippi before and looks forward to working with allies in the state.
“The people I met in Mississippi understood that DC voting rights is a crucial civil rights issue,” he added. “They are willing to stand up and say that ‘DC deserves the same right to make their own laws that we currently enjoy.’”
It appears that Mr. Zherka believes that a weather vane’s arrowhead points downwind. This should be a learning opportunity for him.
I say bravo to Mr. Childers.
I thought DC were just some letters that differentiate Washington, the city, from Washington, the state.
Great press in Mississippi for Childers. Any way he can get the vegans to come out publicly against him? If so, he’s a shoo-in.
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well, why fight it? We are no longer the land of the free, we’re the land of guns, ammo & cammo.
I have always equated the Bill of Rights — all of our constitutional rights — with freedom. And that includes the second amendment. Treading on those rights is often referred to as tyranny.
Freedom, baby, freedom. That is what its all about.
Pam – just don’t try to marry some one of your same sex. You are not free to do that.
And Blackbear, if it were up to me, she (or anyone else) would be free to do just that. Even Dick Cheney is in favor of gay marriage. The Obama administration is not.
Dick Cheney’s support of gay marriage (well that he tolerates them but is not too sure about officially sanctioning them or treating them as equally as traditional marriage) reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, “all animals are created equal but some animals are created more equal than others.”