When President Obama took the podium last week for his first State of the Union address, advocates for greater democracy for residents of the nation’s capital city had high hopes.
This, they believed, would be the perfect time for the president to mention the injustice under which we D.C. residents live. We pay taxes, and we fight in wars, but we don’t have a vote in the House or Senate. Why would the president not make a mention? Just one phrase?
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