On the way home today, volunteers were handing out blue placards to DC residents who voted for Kerry in November. Their goal is to "paint the town blue".
At first, I was a little puzzled why anyone would try to salt old wounds two months after the election. Then I realized that next thursday is a federal holiday. (Duh!)
...but Inauguration Day isn't actually a federal holiday. It's a local holiday that the federal (and most local) governments recognize in the D.C. and the immediately surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia. Feds elsewhere have to work.
Re:Not that it matters....
ziggy on 2005-01-13T16:30:42
"Feds elsewhere?" Isn't that an urban legend like Sasquatch or low-carb donuts?;-) Re:Not that it matters....
Whammo on 2005-01-13T16:52:40
Only to those that actually work inside the beltway.
:-) The truth is, there are far more federal employees outside the D.C. area than in it.
