Former D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt couldn’t get past the White House gate when she tried to hand deliver a letter supporting D.C. voting rights in Congress to President Obama.
The letter was signed by every elected D.C. mayor except Walter Washington, whose widow, Mary Washington, signed it instead.
Pratt and Mary Washington went to the White House to deliver the letter, which also asks the president to display the District’s “Taxation Without Representation” license plates on his official vehicles. But they were stopped at the gate by a Secret Service officer who said the White House doesn’t accept outside deliveries, Pratt told The Associated Press.
She said she’d get the letter to Obama and then reportedly mentioned carrier pigeons.
