DC Council calls for Michigan and Virgin Islands National Guard to withdraw from DC
On July 9, the DC Council sent a unanimous letter to Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan as well as Governor Albert Bryan of the U.S. Virgin Islands calling on them to withdraw their National Guard soldiers from DC.
Both Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Governor Albert Bryan sent their guard for July 4th and America 250 celebrations in Washington, D.C.. “Now that the event-specific mission for which Michigan personnel were deployed has concluded, we respectfully ask that you recall all Michigan National Guard personnel as soon as practicable,” the Council stated.
As the letter states, “D.C. residents pay federal taxes, serve in the military, and host our nation’s democratic institutions, yet are denied full voting representation in Congress and full control over our own local affairs. The deployment of military personnel from other jurisdictions into District 2 communities therefore raises particularly serious questions of democratic accountability and local control.”
Thousands of people have now written letters to these governors. DC residents are filming the Guard, allies in the states are agitating their leaders, and together we are making it clear that DC wants the Guard gone.
