Statehood Petition on Credo

[Andrea Rosen]

Remarkable that just about 1 1/2 years ago, the young men on a hunger strike
for voting rights and budget autonomy couldn't get a major petition sponsor
to accept their petition. Now, Credo is sponsoring a petition for the whole
tamale: Statehood!

From the petition:

Did you know that the federal government shutdown also threatens the
operations of the District's local government? That means the city's 32,000
employees would also be furloughed today if it weren't for our mayor tapping
into city reserves to keep the city running. We are a city of 633,000
residents with no voice at the federal level, and we ask for your support in
our fight for statehood - please sign and share our petition, no matter
where you live, and no matter your political persuasion.

I just took action to demand Congress and President Obama stand up for
statehood and representation for the 633,000 citizens of Washington, DC.

I hope you will too!

http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/support-statehood-for-the-633-000-citiz
ens-of-dc?sp_ref=12441337.4.443.e.0.2&source=mailto_sp

Andrea Rosen
Chevy Chase, DC (Ward 4)

[Andrea Rosen]

There is a state constitution ratified by popular vote a few decades ago that does create actual state legislatures and a governor—sorry, I’m vague on the details.  But the clique of hacks, if they wish to keep “servng,” will have to run again and there will be many more representatives.  


On 10/5/13 12:20 AM, "Daniel Wolkoff" <amgla...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I think this clique of hacks, in the city council and the Mayor(Emperor)
will have even more power if statehood doesn't include state institutions, specifically a state legislature and dissolution of the city council. This is a body so polluted by it's own crime, corruption, arrogance and meddling in our lives as to be un-salvageable, and we must seriously fear a new state level of authority. They have no credibility, and are taking the role of  DELUSIONAL LEADERSHIP, god forbid they are reinforced by some "distortion" of statehood. I have called for the city council to be  euthanized for a long time, like mercifully we would put down any rabid animal. Their delusions range from not kicking out a mayor, filthy and elected by his own massive campaign fraud, to sitting around hassling every part of district life but doing nothing to save the environment, stop insane over-development and reduce carbon emissions, a crime against posterity.  As all the DC govt. does is mow lawns and run generators and causes  horrible traffic congestion. The onslaught of construction, over urbanization, destruction of the quality of life is a sickness, delusional  madness, manifested by insane levels of construction, and all the local fights against the govt. running over $60 billion in development projects.
My friends in upper Montgomery county said " building one more house within 70 miles of DC, is criminal".
The delusional "sustainable DC plan" calls for new construction in every paragraph, virtually ignores conservation and adaptive re-use of existing structures. We want the restoration of McMillan Park and the so-called "sustainable green DC " plan calls for this restoration in every word. This level of hypocrisy shows mental illness , like a droning semi-conscious mantra "let's keep going forward, blah, blah, blah!!!" "forward", "forward"!

On McMillan Park, while this rabid clique forces it's "re-development plan" down OUR  throats , no matter how senseless, hopefully the control of the congress can stop the stupidity.  McMillan Park is, existing and ready to be restored, and no new construction should be zoned by a responsible government until the storm water and raw sewage combined  flooding
catastrophe is completely solved. Th problem of storm water runoff from the Washington/Veterans/Childrens/NRH/Hospital Complex and The AFRH is what has to be re-developed to stop the flooding. The elimination of open space, tree canopy, destruction of McMillan Park and the ramrod of a huge mega-urbanization on the historic site by the few in elected office, the few in Office of Planning and the few in Mayors Office of Economic Development , less than 20 people,
shows how power hungry, corrupt, and the revolving door these power drunk people move in with the corporate developers. We are more disenfranchised at home , and that's the problem, not statehood. If this is such an important thing, then where is the effort to form state institutions now, before some congressional deal gives our representative one vote in the house, and end the  dictatorship of an imperial city government, that is really destroying our city.

Daniel Goldon Wolkoff
Adams Morgan Stained Glass
1231 Randolph Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Tel: 202-232-8391
www.adamsmorganstainedglass.com <http://www.adamsmorganstainedglass.com/>

 
 

 

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 Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 11:22 PM
 Subject: Statehood Petition on Credo
 

[Andrea Rosen]

One recipient of this e-mail alerted me to the fact that the link I sent didn’t work.  If you tried to use it and walked away from an error message in disgust, or you’re waiting for that special quiet moment to click the link, here is a link that does seem to work.  Please accept my apologies for the earlier inconvenience.

http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/support-statehood-for-the-633-000-citizens-of-dc

If you’re a D.C. resident and you’ve lost interest in full American citizenship and were therefore ignoring me,  please reconsider.  While Mayor Gray may have bought us a few weeks of normality by devising an end-run around the system, allowing us to use our own local taxes to keep our government running, this is at best a temporary fix.  If the Federal shut-down doesn’t end in the next 9 days, we’ll be forced to shutter government operations as well—and for what reason?  D.C. unfailingly gets its budget in on time (to CA Republican Darrell Issa), and our budgets are balanced.  That’s more than one can say for the dysfunctional Congress, which still somehow believes itself to be our overlords, and where we have no voting representation.  I know you know this already, but families living here have sacrificed their loved ones for this country, we pay the highest average per capita in Federal taxes—and we are living as a colony or worse.  At least when the 13 colonies had that status, King George III was an ocean away.  We have to put up with the meddling of Congress in our family planning laws, our public health laws, our educational system, and our gun laws.

If that doesn’t make you angry . . . .

Andrea


On 10/4/13 11:22 PM, "Andrea Rosen" <ae...@rcn.com> wrote:

Remarkable that just about 1 1/2 years ago, a group of young men on a hunger strike couldn't get a major petition sponsor to accept their petition for voting rights and budget autonomy .  Now, Credo is sponsoring a petition for the whole tamale:  Statehood!

[Annf...@aol.com]

done and posted on my Facebook pag.

 

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[Andrea Rosen]

Yay!!!!

Sent on the fly from my fone.

[Glaude, Steve (EOM)]

It worked when I used it.

 

 

 

Steve Glaude

Director of the Mayors Office of Community Affairs

Executive Office of  Mayor

Vincent C. Gray

District of Columbia

1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW

Suite 332

Washington, DC 20004

steve....@dc.gov

202-724-5556-Office

202-375-1991-Mobile

 

One City...One Government...One Voice

 

 

New, expanded library hours start Oct. 1.  More hours for story time.  More hours for community meetings.  More hours to use free computers.  Check out the library's new hours at dclibrary.org/newhours.

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[Sam Jewler]

Thanks for sending this around Mom. Signing and sharing now. Also, a compelling factoid from the body of the petition language:

"In fiscal year 2012, District residents and businesses paid $20.7 billion in federal taxes; this is more than the taxes collected from 19 states and the highest federal taxes per capita."

[Andrea Rosen]

I knew that we pay the highest federal taxes per capita, but the other part may be even more mind-blowing.  I found out that the guy who set up the petition is Josh Burch, who is in his early 30s, works, has a toddler.   He and Elinor Hart been working assiduously, along with volunteers (once, me) on getting Reps and Senators to sign on to the two versions of the New Columbia Act.  

Thanks for disseminating!  I’ve heard back from exactly one person on the OccupyTheVote list, and that was a guy who works in the mayor’s office.  Perhaps people signed without touching base with me.  More likely, they yawned and rolled over.

I can only say that our government isn’t as corrupt as that of France in the 15th century.  (As part of my self-assigned French Lit class, I’m reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame—definitely a frightening period to be alive.)  That perspective helps marginally.

On 10/7/13 1:17 PM, "Sam Jewler" <sam.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for sending this around Mom. Signing and sharing now. Also, a compelling factoid from the body of the petition language:

"In fiscal year 2012, District residents and businesses paid $20.7 billion in federal taxes; this is more than the taxes collected from 19 states and the highest federal taxes per capita."


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Glaude, Steve (EOM) <Steve....@dc.gov> wrote:

It worked when I used it.
 

 
 
Steve Glaude
Director of the Mayors Office of Community Affairs
Executive Office of  Mayor
Vincent C. Gray
District of Columbia
1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Suite 332
Washington, DC 20004
steve....@dc.gov

202-724-5556 <tel:202-724-5556> -Office
202-375-1991 <tel:202-375-1991> -Mobile
 

One City...One Government...One Voice
 

 
New, expanded library hours start Oct. 1.  More hours for story time.  More hours for community meetings.  More hours to use free computers.  Check out the library's new hours at dclibrary.org/newhours <http://www.dclibrary.org/newhours> .

From: occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrea Rosen
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 4:28 PM
To: occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com; cyn...@aol.com; Susan B. Zuckerman; Lauren Zuckerman; 'bte...@comcast.net'; lte...@comcast.net; Lisa Schlesinger; Susan; Donald Jewler; Liz Bordow; Richard Bordow; Judith Goozh; Elizabeth Symonds; Elizabeth Head; Gloxiniafred; Ann Loikow; Willie L. Baker; bobbi....@gmail.com; Carolyn A. Cook (ANC4G01); Claudia Phelps; cnic...@aol.com; Ellen Malasky; Sheila Footer; Gary Malasky; Ginsburg, Laura; John Hanrahan; debbyh...@yahoo.com; Isabel Roth; Kirby Vining; Hugh Youngblood; Mary Beth Bowen; Margaret Bright; Daniel Nathan; Patrica Ortman; Maggie Ronkin; Teri Hershberg; Christopher Aden; JoAnn Russell; mimilh...@aol.com; Daniel Wolkoff; Dori K. Bernstein
Subject: Re: Statehood Petition on Credo

 
One recipient of this e-mail alerted me to the fact that the link I sent didn’t work.  If you tried to use it and walked away from an error message in disgust, or you’re waiting for that special quiet moment to click the link, here is a link that does seem to work.  Please accept my apologies for the earlier inconvenience.

http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/support-statehood-for-the-633-000-citizens-of-dc

If you’re a D.C. resident and you’ve lost interest in full American citizenship and were therefore ignoring me,  please reconsider.  While Mayor Gray may have bought us a few weeks of normality by devising an end-run around the system, allowing us to use our own local taxes to keep our government running, this is at best a temporary fix.  If the Federal shut-down doesn’t end in the next 9 days, we’ll be forced to shutter government operations as well—and for what reason?  D.C. unfailingly gets its budget in on time (to CA Republican Darrell Issa), and our budgets are balanced.  That’s more than one can say for the dysfunctional Congress, which still somehow believes itself to be our overlords, and where we have no voting representation.  I know you know this already, but families living here have sacrificed their loved ones for this country, we pay the highest average per capita in Federal taxes—and we are living as a colony or worse.  At least when the 13 colonies had that status, King George III was an ocean away.  We have to put up with the meddling of Congress in our family planning laws, our public health laws, our educational system, and our gun laws.

If that doesn’t make you angry . . . .

Andrea


On 10/4/13 11:22 PM, "Andrea Rosen" <ae...@rcn.com <http://ae...@rcn.com> > wrote:

[E P]

Sorry, it never actually occurred to me to reply to the original email, but I immediately signed the petition and posted it on FB after receiving it. Definitely did not yawn and delete! I plan to "re-share" it during the week as I'm not sure as many people as I would hope saw it on Saturday. I'm actually a little surprised at how slowly it's picking up signatures. I'll keep at it, though.

Thanks for your continued efforts, 

Elaine

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[Thomas D Johnson]

Me, too.

Tom Johnson

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From: occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E P
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 1:37 PM
To: occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com

[Andrea Rosen]

Thank you.  

Me, too.
Tom Johnson

steve....@dc.gov <http://steve....@dc.gov>
202-724-5556 <tel:202-724-5556>  <tel:202-724-5556 <tel:202-724-5556> > -Office
202-375-1991 <tel:202-375-1991>  <tel:202-375-1991 <tel:202-375-1991> >  -Mobile
 

One City...One Government...One  Voice

New, expanded library hours start Oct.  1.  More hours for story time.  More hours for community  meetings.  More hours to use free computers.  Check out the  library's new hours at dclibrary.org/newhours <http://dclibrary.org/newhours> <http://www.dclibrary.org/newhours> .

From: occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com <http://occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com>   [mailto:occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com]  On Behalf Of Andrea Rosen
Sent: Saturday, October 05,  2013 4:28 PM
To: occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com <http://occupythevotedcs-...@googlegroups.com> ;  cyn...@aol.com <http://cyn...@aol.com> ;  Susan B. Zuckerman; Lauren Zuckerman; 'bte...@comcast.net <http://'bte...@comcast.net> '; lte...@comcast.net <http://lte...@comcast.net> ;  Lisa Schlesinger; Susan; Donald Jewler; Liz Bordow; Richard Bordow;  Judith Goozh; Elizabeth Symonds; Elizabeth Head; Gloxiniafred; Ann  Loikow; Willie L. Baker; bobbi....@gmail.com <http://bobbi....@gmail.com> ; Carolyn A. Cook (ANC4G01);  Claudia Phelps; cnic...@aol.com <http://cnic...@aol.com> ; Ellen Malasky; Sheila Footer; Gary  Malasky; Ginsburg, Laura; John Hanrahan; debbyh...@yahoo.com <http://debbyh...@yahoo.com> ; Isabel Roth; Kirby Vining;  Hugh Youngblood; Mary Beth Bowen; Margaret Bright; Daniel Nathan;  Patrica Ortman; Maggie Ronkin; Teri Hershberg; Christopher Aden; JoAnn  Russell; mimilh...@aol.com <http://mimilh...@aol.com> ; Daniel Wolkoff; Dori K.  Bernstein
Subject: Re: Statehood Petition on  Credo


 
One recipient of this e-mail alerted me to  the fact that the link I sent didn’t work.  If you tried to use it  and walked away from an error message in disgust, or you’re waiting for  that special quiet moment to click the link, here is a link that does  seem to work.  Please accept my apologies for the earlier  inconvenience.

http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/support-statehood-for-the-633-000-citizens-of-dc

If  you’re a D.C. resident and you’ve lost interest in full American  citizenship and were therefore ignoring me,  please reconsider.   While Mayor Gray may have bought us a few weeks of normality by  devising an end-run around the system, allowing us to use our own local  taxes to keep our government running, this is at best a temporary fix.   If the Federal shut-down doesn’t end in the next 9 days, we’ll be  forced to shutter government operations as well—and for what reason?   D.C. unfailingly gets its budget in on time (to CA Republican  Darrell Issa), and our budgets are balanced.  That’s more than one  can say for the dysfunctional Congress, which still somehow believes  itself to be our overlords, and where we have no voting representation.   I know you know this already, but families living here have  sacrificed their loved ones for this country, we pay the highest average  per capita in Federal taxes—and we are living as a colony or worse.   At least when the 13 colonies had that status, King George III was  an ocean away.  We have to put up with the meddling of Congress in  our family planning laws, our public health laws, our educational  system, and our gun laws.

If that doesn’t make you angry . . .  .

Andrea


 
On 10/4/13 11:22 PM, "Andrea Rosen" <ae...@rcn.com <http://ae...@rcn.com>  <http://ae...@rcn.com>  > wrote: