D.C. Shadow Senator candidate Pete Ross is scheduled to go before a judge on Thursday morning and ask for jail time as his punishment for being arrested. According to his spokeswoman, Ross will ask that he be immediately remanded to jail to serve the full possible sentence of 90 days. The charge? Obstructing passage on U.S. Capitol grounds. Ross was one of four people arrested in December a protest for the District’s voting rights.
“He plans to refuse any offers of fines or probation as he feels strongly that only through making others — and at times himself — uncomfortable can the District fully be recognized and given full autonomy and voting rights,” said spokeswoman Safiya Simmons, in an email. “And, if elected, he has a plan in place to begin his work behind bars.”
