D.C. statehood advocates visited the office of Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) all day on Tuesday to demand that he stop interfering with the District’s legislation.
, with help from dozens of Democrats, to block D.C. legislation that would have overhauled the city’s criminal code. Clyde also sponsored a disapproval resolution on the criminal code in the House as well.
“By striking down the radical Revised Criminal Code Act, Congress has effectively exercised its constitutional authority to manage Washington’s affairs in order to prevent exacerbating an already troubling crime crisis in D.C. and to protect residents and visitors in Washington,” he said in a news release.
Virginia Spatz, 63, a resident of Hill East who has lived in D.C. for 35 years, read to Clyde’s staff her letter of appeal: “Residents of D.C.’s eight diverse wards did not request and do not seek your oversight, Rep. Clyde, of our lives and laws …. Interfering with D.C. laws is anti-democratic and makes everyone who lives here less safe. The people of D.C. did not elect you.”
And to Green, “woke” is not an insult. It reflects Green’s beliefs of caring about their community, dismantling white supremacy and organizing for a better future.
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