Hippos Follow Hypocrites
On September 18, 2007, a minority of Senators voted to block the
DC Voting Rights Act (S. 1257) from coming to a final vote -- the first filibuster of voting rights legislation in the Senate since the days of segregation.
For many Senators, it was a hypocritical vote.
Senators who have supported sending our troops, ostensibly, to spread democracy in Baghdad supported granting more rights to the residents of Iraq's capital than to the Americans living in our nation's capital. Senators who would profess to be against taxation without representation blocked a final vote on a bill that would grant District residents their first-ever vote in Congress.
The hypocrisy - and the filibuster - must end.
As part of our strategy to end the filibuster, DC Vote volunteers and staff will keep pressure on the filibustering Senators by publicly highlighting their hypocrisy.
And how do we highlight their hypocrisy? By publicly shaming them with a hippopotamus hot on their trail. Why? Because Hippos Follow Hypocrites.
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