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A Democrat like DC Councilmember Jim Graham we don’t need!
It just goes to show you that political parties can matter some, but they are not the end all be all. Even within one party there are factions. I learned this from watching local politics in my hometown of Greenburgh, NY where there was one party that dominated everything. It got so bad that the one party basically split in two.
So now we have the “Democratic” DC Councilmember in Jim Graham doing something very undemocratic.
A bill criminalizing gatherings of more than two people in D.C. is drawing outrage and opposition from community and labor activists, as well as civil rights advocates. "This is a clear and blatant violation of the Constitutionally-guaranteed right of the American people to assemble," said Washington D.C. Metro Council AFL-CIO President Jos Williams. "That it’s been introduced in the nation’s capitol is a travesty of justice and common sense," Williams added.
I think Jim Graham and whoever probably guided him to introduce this legislation has been watching too much of the Bloomberg NYC government in action.
Update: It appears the bill has been withdrawn. I don’t know why this was even a bill in the first place.
