Electing Michael Brown to the at-large city council seat on Nov. 4 would be a corruption of the country’s core democratic principles and a flagrant violation of the Home Rule Charter.

Here’s why. Politics in the United States is based on a multiparty system. Many voices, many choices, many parties. At this moment, politics is dominated by the two major parties, the Democrats and the GOP. Looking back, we had Whigs and Federalists and Progressives. Now we have the Greens and the Libertarians. In D.C. we have the Statehood Party, driven to change the Constitution and give residents a pair of senators and a congressman.