D.C. Illiteracy

It is about the votes. It is always about the votes, irregardless of what it should be about.

A bill backed by Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers giving the District of Columbia a seat in the House of Representatives will apparently come up in the first months of the new congress for 2007. The constitution states that all members of Congress be elected “by the people of the several states”. Washington D.C. is not a state, it is a federal city.

Coincidently a report by the District of Columbia State Education stated that one-third of the people in the District of Columbia are functionally illiterate vis-à-vis one-fifth of the fifty states.

I wonder what party a functionally illiterate voter from a non-state would be more inclined to vote for?

One thing the study did not state was whether or not the one-third illiteracy rate in D.C. was a perennial or static equation effected by when Congress was on recess.