Posted on 09/20/2019 10:15:16 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called on Thursday for Washington, D.C. to receive statehood, indicating that residents didn't have the "right to vote."
"DC was the 1st territory in the United States to free the enslaved. It’s where Black Americans fled the tyranny of slavery & towards greater freedom, to DC. Yet today it’s where 2nd class citizenship reigns, and the right to vote is denied," she said.
It's unclear what she was referring to since citizens in Washington, D.C. have the right to vote like every other citizen. She appeared to be complaining about the fact that D.C. congressmen and congresswomen can't vote in the House of Representatives. DC residents also do not have any representation in the Senate. During a D.C. statehood hearing on Thursday, she also seemed to conflate former slaves with people currently living in the district.
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Give DC back to Maryland except for the official US gov’t buildings and surrounding streets.
Its simple. Give the populated parts of DC back to VA and MD. Then they’ll have congressional and Senate representation.
All it takes is a change in the configuration of the federal district.
Why are they called windshields when they’re made out of glass?
A-O-C is having another brain flash.
And what about hot water heaters?
This isn’t a serious problem unless she cries about it in an empty parking lot.
Leave it to yet another Leftist to propose something that is clearly in contradiction to the US Constitution.
And PIN numbers, VIN numbers, etc.???
Setting up another disenfranchisement of Rat voters in DC, like in 2000.
D.C. elector Barbara Lett-Simmons, pledged for Democrats Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, cast no electoral votes as a protest of Washington D.C.’s lack of voting congressional representation. Lett-Simmons’s electoral college abstention, the first since 1864, was intended to protest what Lett-Simmons referred to as the federal district’s “colonial status”. Lett-Simmons described her blank ballot as an act of civil disobedience, not an act of a faithless elector; Lett-Simmons supported Gore and would have voted for Gore if she had thought he had a chance to win.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
Could I have a second class $110,000 per year federal job please?
Could I have a second class $110,000 per year federal job please?
SHAME on this country for putting guns to their heads and FORCING THEM to live there!!! /s Thanks COUNTrecount.
Thank you. Problem solved, case closed...
Maryland would run DC government better.
FIRST AND FOREMOST d.c. IS NOT A STATE FOR A VERY GOOD REASON. You don’t want a state senator from the state where the federal government is meeting, Its not fair to the rest of the reps. D.C. is a neutral territory to all US reps for this reason Period, and anyone who utters a word about taxation without representation is a fcking retarded idiot with zero common sense cannot be argued with because they lack any type of reasoning ability. They are the defination of STUPID . The license plates should be considered “handicapped Plates” for MENTAL RETARDATION!
If a brainstorm is like a torrential downpour of rain then AOC's amounts to a light sprinkle called "a trace of precipitation" by the weather service.
Would the Star Trek Starfleet regulations require signs of intelligent life in DC first? That would be a tough bar to go over for them.
And we shouldn’t interfere with the denizens of DC trying to upgrade to act like normal Americans instead of spoiled privileged brats.
I think New York was the first state to make slavery illegal, way before there was a WashDC.
THEY DON’T WANT IT.........
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