Seating Chart

Dear Seaters:

The Democratic party’s platform for 2012 promotes Obamacare, government-financed abortion on demand, gay marriage, and illegal immigration, and denies anything needs to be done to combat election fraud. Most of these issues are supported by only a quarter or a third of the American people. But there is one issue that the Democratic party thinks is too left-wing, too far out, too unpopular, to sell to the American people — statehood for the District of Columbia. That issue was dropped from the party platform.

Statehood is the issue that DC Democratic party leaders said they were going to the Charlotte convention to promote. But the real top concern that our Democratic delegates had, as Ann Gerhart noted in the Post’s Election 2012 Blog on September 4, was this: “Seating is everything in Washington, in politics, at conventions. So it is no accident that the delegation of the District of Columbia is in the nosebleed seats at the back of the arena here in Charlotte. That’s where the pariah mayors could pose for pictures without attracting much notice or enthusiasm: former Mayor Marion Barry and current embattled Mayor Vincent Gray. Both are delegates, Gray the chair of the 50-member group. Most attendees barely looked up when the District’s mayor slowly made his way up the stairs to the arenas last rows. At 6 p.m., as a rising-star mayor took the podium, Newark’s Cory Booker, Gray sat alone, unsmiling,” http://tinyurl.com/bq3tajn.

Statehood or good seats; priorities are priorities.

Submissions to themail are way down, so obviously you’re not seeing your priorities in themail. The way to get them included is to write to themail about them; you have to take the initiative.

Gary Imhoff
themail@dcwatch.com

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Driver Education
Janice Terry, pythiapress@comcast.net

[Re: “Traffic and Accidents,” themail, September 2] Very interesting and thanks for the send. I didn’t know driver education wasn’t taught in public schools anymore. What a shame.