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Article: D.C. activists push for Hill voting rights; Lobbying convention delegates.(DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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Byline: Tom LoBianco, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
DENVER -- Activists and local politicians pushing for D.C. voting rights in Congress are borrowing some of the spotlight at the Democratic National Convention for their perennial cause, which has broad support among Democrats.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's nonvoting congressional representative, called on convention delegates to support voting rights for the District in her floor speech yesterday. And voting rights activist group DC Vote aired a one-minute music video highlighting its fight.
Convention delegates from the District plan to cross the protest lines today to call for full ...