D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Arrested Protesting Dem-GOP Budget Deal

[ProudDad]

AMY GOODMAN: How was this agreement come to? Have you spoken to President Obama? Did he call you in jail, Mayor Gray?

MAYOR VINCENT GRAY: No, I have not heard from the White House. We, in fact, called the White House yesterday to try to get some understanding what happened here. But we weren’t even given the courtesy of a consultation about those things affecting the District of Columbia. We did—I sent a letter to Speaker Boehner and to Majority Leader Reid on Friday, once again laying out our case, the rationale for how we stood, which we thought was quite clear. And we’ve gotten no response from either of them directly at this point.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/13/dc_mayor_vincent_gray_arrested_protesting

Taxation without representation...

[Recursion]

1. End our colonial status

Otherwise we're going to keep being a football for Congress.

[DCKit]

2. The S.O. and I had a spirited discussion last night about DC as a tax haven.

But can you imagine the quality of people we'd be surrounded by? Ick.

We'd be commuting from VA the second we could sell.

[ProudDad]

3. The corporate-funded Congress wouldn't allow that

"DC as a tax haven"

They already have the Caribbean...