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D.C. Votes Overwhelmingly To Become 51st State
NPR ^
| Nov 9, 2016
| Rebecca Hersher
Posted on 11/09/2016 8:29:50 AM PST by posterchild
Voters in the District of Columbia passed a measure on Tuesday in favor of petitioning Congress to become a state in the union.
79 percent of voters cast votes in favor of the ballot measure, which splits the district into a residential state with a small federal district in the middle of it for government buildings and monuments, as we have reported.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; dc; districtofcolumbia; state; washingtondc
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To: posterchild
I think the rest of the country should have the option to vote for DC to be the first void.
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:30:55 AM PST
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: posterchild
Just what we need: two more commie senators. No thanks.
To: posterchild
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:31:18 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: posterchild
And some Silicon Valley billionaires are trying to make a petition for CA to secede.
I'd call that a pretty good trade: California's 55 EV would no longer be a gimme for the Dems.
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:31:54 AM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: posterchild
Does that mean more electoral votes?
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:32:03 AM PST
by
R_Kangel
( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
To: MountainWalker
DC would elect Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:32:22 AM PST
by
DugwayDuke
("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
To: posterchild
splits the district into a residential state with a small federal district in the middle of it for government buildings and monuments - recursion!
To: posterchild
Fk DC and what they vote for. These are the same low-life, degenerate scumbags who voted for Marion “bitch set me up” Barry after he went to prison because of the crack den incident.
To: MountainWalker
Just what we need: two more commie senators. No thanks.Too bad His Honor Marion "the bitch set me up" Barry didn't live long enough to be one of them. Sniff...
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:33:33 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: posterchild
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:33:39 AM PST
by
Arm_Bears
(Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
To: posterchild
Irrelevant. And if they want to become a state, the capital has to be moved elsewhere.
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:33:51 AM PST
by
backwoods-engineer
(AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
To: posterchild
NO! You can become either part of Maryland or Virginia, but not a new Democrat state. Sorry, you where never intended to be a state.
DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:34:01 AM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: posterchild
I am good with it if they move the Capitol to Tulsa, OK.
To: posterchild
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:34:37 AM PST
by
ataDude
(.)
To: posterchild
Country voted overwhelmingly that they will never be a state with two communist Senators!!
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:34:55 AM PST
by
WENDLE
To: posterchild
No. If they want to fold the residential areas back into MD, go for it.
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:35:00 AM PST
by
justlurking
(#TurnOffCNN)
To: grey_whiskers
"And some Silicon Valley billionaires are trying to make a petition for CA to secede."All of CA, or just their little perfect world enclave of it?
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:35:00 AM PST
by
taildragger
(Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
To: grey_whiskers
California should be broken into at least two if not three states.
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:35:10 AM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: posterchild
Hell NO! Only if we get to make TX two states!
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posted on
11/09/2016 8:35:18 AM PST
by
Az Joe
( REPORTED!!)
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