DC Voting Rights WH Protest

The Hill reports:

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and hundreds of protestors took to the White House on Saturday to demand a representational vote in Congress for the capital city.

Waving Washington D.C. flags and signs with the “Taxation Without Representation” slogan, the Lafayette Square demonstration was part of DC Vote’s increasingly aggressive campaign to push President Obama and Congress to grant the city a vote in the House.

The U.S. Park Police arrested a dozen people as they sat in front of the White House's fence early in Saturday's rally.

Gray and several D.C. council members were arrested earlier this year on Capitol Hill for protesting a short-term spending measure that placed new constraints on the city.