Who is Mike Panetta?

Mike Panetta was recently elected to the position of U.S. Representative in the November 7th election in the District of Columbia. The position is often referred to as the "Shadow Representative" and should not be confused with the office of Delegate to Congress, which is currently held by Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Mike has run several high-profile campaigns for DC representation including starting an Olympic team for the District and leading efforts to rebrand RFK Stadium as "Taxation Without Representation Field" Mike pledges to make the DC voting rights issue a national one that is embraced by progressive activists across the country.

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The Hill: Letter to the Editor

Friday, April 27th, 2007 at 12:16pm

I wrote this in response to a letter that was recently submitted to the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill from a reader in Pennsylvania. You can read the original letter here. Hopefully it will be published next week.

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Dear Editor,

John Salsgiver should read both the “blood-bought Constitution” he references and the actual text of the DC Voting Rights Act before firing off letters such as “We the Sheeple” to The Hill. (Regarding
article, “House Dems secure win on D.C. voting rights bill,” April 20.)

The Constitution grants Congress authority over the District “in all Cases whatsoever”. Constitutional scholars from both sides of the aisle have testified before Congress that this clause gives Congress
the authority to grant the District a vote in the House of Representatives. Whether or not this is Constitutional is some the courts will ultimately need to decide, but his claim that the Constitution was “willfully violated” is quite a stretch.

I also take issue with Mr. Salsgiver claims that it won’t be long before demands are made for two voting Senators for the District – and his questioning if we can “smell the desperation” of Democrats looking to get three extra electoral votes from this bill.

I’m not sure what Mr. Salsgiver smells, but I don’t think that it’s desperation for electoral votes. I would remind Mr. Salsgiver that the 23rd amendment to the Constitution granted the District of Columbia the three electoral votes he fears so much back in 1961.

I would also remind the reader that the DC Voting Rights Act would grant an additional congressional district — and thus another electoral vote — to the state of Utah. It doesn’t take Charlie Cook
to figure out that Utah will likely be a Republican state in 2008. This is hardly the sort of legislation that would be passed by desperate Democrats.

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