This letter serves as a rebuttal to Deborah Simmons' Friday column "Statehood activists' silly games make their cause laughable" (Culture). When Miss Simmons called the District's fight for democracy a "silly waste of time," "gimmickry" and "a fat chance," she insulted the nearly 600,000 Washingtonians who are denied voting rights.
A D.C. government agency that received nearly $1 million a year to provide child care services under the federal "Head Start" program failed to conduct background checks on its employees, including workers previously convicted of drug and other felony offenses, a federal audit released Monday found.
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