Colorado’s new Democrat members of the congressional delegation are at odds with the old guard on whether one should have to be a U.S. citizen to vote in U.S. elections.
The delegation split showed itself last week on a resolution to disapprove of the District of Columbia‘s move to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections in the Capital City.
Congress has the power to block laws in the District of Columbia from being enacted, according to the D.C. Home Rule Act, and the House took the first step towards rolling back the district’s new edict that takes effect in 2024. The Senate would have to pass a similar measure, and President Biden sign it into law, which no one expects to happen.
Still, it forced Democrats to take a stand on whether they think anyone on Planet Earth should be allowed to vote in Main Street U.S.A.’s City Council race.
The resolution passed on a 260-161 vote with 42 Democrats voting with Republicans including Colorado U.S. Reps. Yadira Caraveo and Brittany Pettersen to stop noncitizen voting.
Voting in favor of just anyone coming to our country to cast ballots, were Democrat U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, Jason Crow, and Joe Neguse.
This is the list of 162 Democrats who voted to allow illegal aliens to vote in elections in Washington DC.https://t.co/cF8HXADs4e pic.twitter.com/9b29P2VoNF
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 10, 2023
None of our Congress members issued a statement explaining their votes, and the Colorado media has so far ignored the vote and its implications.
New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, overreacting as usual, says only racists want to limit U.S. voting to U.S. citizens.
There is no such race as “U.S. citizen,” but she was on a roll …
Banning noncitizens from voting is treating them like slaves, she explained loudly.
“They’re singling out the residents of the District of Columbia and expanding in the history of disenfranchisement that goes all the way back to the legacy of slavery,” she argued.
So does that mean Caraveo and Pettersen are pro slavery?
Interesting.