The MrsMoonPie and I went to the voting rights march on Monday, and I took a cool picure:

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The issue still has to pass the Senate and be signed by the President. Bush has said he'd veto the bill, and there's probably not enough support for an over-ride, though. It still feels like we're getting somewhere, at least.

[this is good]
Is this the bill that also gives Utah(???) another seat?

It is. Utah isn't specifically named in the legislation, but it's understood by all that the reapportionment called for in the bill will give an additional seat to Utah.

Woot!

I remember when I learned that DC residents had no vote. Astounding! IT seemed so darn un-American.

For those of you who don't know what the hell we're talking about, wikipedia has a decent run-down on the issue, though it's a little out of date.

I don't like it. Not because of giving voting rights to D.C. (or Utah), I just think it's an egregious and arbitrary hack.

I know, I know. If you don't want to learn how sausage is made, don't read the label.

So, is the opposition to this saying anything other than they don't want another likely democratic voting (semi)state? And it's funny the state picked to potentially get another seat is Morman UT, where polygyny bubbles just under the surface. Real traditional family values.
(not that I really care about polygamy in general, consenting adults and all that noise, just that it seems pretty counter grain to the "one man, one woman" claptrap)

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