Free DC! The Obama Inauguration and a New Chance for Democracy in Our Nation’s Capital

OpEdNews:  Free DC! The Obama Inauguration and a New Chance for Democracy in Our Nation’s Capital

In fact, Democratic politicians have retreated further from the goal of DC statehood, deleting it from the Democratic national platform in 2004 and keeping it out in 2008. The only party to endorse statehood in its national platform is the Green Party, represented locally by the DC Statehood Green Party. The latter, a product of the 1999 merger of the DC Green Party and the DC Statehood Party (founded by Julius Hobson, Josephine Butler, Hilda H. Mason, and other civil rights activists in 1970), has made winning statehood its chief priority.

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