D.C. Democrats re-enact the Tea Party
Reuters reports: Washington Democrats reenacted the "Boston Tea Party" protest during the Democratic convention on Monday to make their case for a vote in Congress for the nation's capital.
Like their colonial forebears in 1773 who pitched tea into Boston's harbor rather than pay taxes to Britain, advocates of voting rights in Washington complain of "taxation without representation" -- a slogan emblazoned on tens of thousands of city license plates.
Washington's nonvoting delegate in Congress, Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe led the "Second Boston Tea Party" at the Charles River on the opening day of the Democratic convention in the New England city.
This year, Democrats plan to drop a plank from their national party platforms of previous years seeking statehood for Washington. Instead, the party is expected to limit the call to a vote in Congress for the city. -- U.S. Capital Makes Vote-Rights Case at Convention (Reuters.com)