Bishop Jackson's latest case for undermining D.C. Home Rule

Bishop Harry Jackson's latest column at the right-wing site TownHall.com attacks The Washington Post for bearing bad news:

I was not surprised that a recent Washington Post article gleefully asserted, “DC’s left leanings confirmed in poll.” I was surprised at the seeming air of objectivity that the writers attempted to project. I was skeptical of the article and its conclusions for several reasons. First, it was commissioned and paid for by the Post (not to impugn the work of SRBI, Inc of New York). Second, a poll could yield very skewed results by focusing on selected wards. Third, private polling obtained by Stand For Marriage DC shows very different results.

We are aware of multiple polls that confirm the findings of the Post. Jackson can believe his group's push polls if he likes, just as he pretends that the entire D.C. Council and Mayor Fenty recently arrived from the moon rather than being elected by D.C. voters. Jackson's colleague Rev. Anthony Evans last spring cried out after losing a Council vote that all of the Council members who voted for marriage equality would be thrown out of office. I said back to him (this was in the hallway outside the Council chambers), "You've made threats before, Reverend. What kind of track record have you got?" Of course, our 11 to 2 victory answers that question. The greatest weakness of Jackson and Evans is that they appear to believe their own dishonest and ill-informed rhetoric. That's fine, they'll keep losing.

Bob Summersgill offers this: "Short analysis: He want's more Congressional interference to overcome the liberal bias of D.C. citizens." Yes, and he's not going to get it. But even if he did, we would defeat him. It must gall Bishop Jackson, a carpetbagger from Maryland, to think that we actually know the District's electorate better than he. Alas for him, his lies do not become true by his endlessly repeating them.