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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

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To: DugwayDuke
DC would elect Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Or Barack and Michelle Obama.

21 posted on 11/09/2016 8:35:40 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Sans-Culotte

We must be on the same wavelength this morning, LOL!


22 posted on 11/09/2016 8:35:49 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: baltimorepoet

I think we should help them. Turn 80-percent of non-federal property over to Maryland, and just make it one entire county of Maryland.


23 posted on 11/09/2016 8:35:56 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: posterchild

50 shades of hell no.

That city would best be walled off, buried under a pile of excrement, and left to fester for centuries.

Nice try, libs. You’ve done enough damage with the illegal democrats, and we will no longer tolerate it. If those “citizens” of DC want their votes to count, move to a state which requires that they actually work for a living, and then can then vote.


24 posted on 11/09/2016 8:36:17 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: posterchild

The problem for them is if they become a state they can no longer be the seat of our federal government.


25 posted on 11/09/2016 8:36:31 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: R_Kangel

DC already has 3 electoral votes but no Senators and only a non-voting ‘delegate’ in Congress (I think).

But if we simply must make DC a state, which we surely do not, then compromise by taking northern Virginia (Fairfax County, Arlington, Alexandria) and adding it back to the District. DC is already 100% Democrat and taking NOVA away from Virginia would make Virginia relatively safe Republican.

Obviously it’ll never happen....


26 posted on 11/09/2016 8:36:55 AM PST by PermaRag (If Trayvon had a father, he'd look just like Obama)
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To: posterchild

Will never happen. I was pi$$ed of all night when they kept showing DC going for hitlery....who gives a shi#!!!


27 posted on 11/09/2016 8:36:58 AM PST by ontap
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To: R_Kangel

Nope they already have 3


28 posted on 11/09/2016 8:37:27 AM PST by wattojawa (If you raise a 0 to a higher power it remains a 0)
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To: R_Kangel

No.

It would mean just two more Democrat U.S. Senators.

Will never be approved by Congress.


29 posted on 11/09/2016 8:37:50 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: posterchild

Pass. Just like we did with that crappy island, Puerto Rico!


30 posted on 11/09/2016 8:37:58 AM PST by RocketMan1 (Creepy White Ass Cracker)
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To: posterchild

US Constitution says otherwise.


31 posted on 11/09/2016 8:38:08 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: posterchild

Isn’t there a proposal to relocate the radioactive waste repository from Yucca Mountain to DC


32 posted on 11/09/2016 8:38:19 AM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Virginia does not want them. Maryland would be a much better fit.


33 posted on 11/09/2016 8:38:37 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Maryland. GOP hopes for statewide races in VA are on life support, but their not dead yet like they are in Maryland.


34 posted on 11/09/2016 8:40:21 AM PST by Aetius
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To: backwoods-engineer

This is no longer the eighteenth century.
We have a flexible and configurable information infrastructure.

The center of Government no longer needs to be centered in immovable building. How about if we periodically solicit bids and move government around?


35 posted on 11/09/2016 8:40:22 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MountainWalker

If DC is allowed to become as state then eastern Washington and eastern Oregon should become independent states also. And Pennsylvania should secede from Philadelphia.


36 posted on 11/09/2016 8:40:37 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: R_Kangel

Yes. It would mean at least two more. Possibly three, but likely two.

The new state would have two Senators and one Representative (I am assuming they don’t have the population to warrant more than one Representative). The existing 438 Representatives may be redistributed.


37 posted on 11/09/2016 8:40:37 AM PST by sipow
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To: grey_whiskers
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.

Might be a tempting trade. Hell .. I'd be willing to let Kalifornikatia go to Meh-hee-coe and let that craphole become THEIR damn problem! That way, Kalifornikatians would need a passport and citizenship to move to other states!

38 posted on 11/09/2016 8:40:48 AM PST by RocketMan1 (Creepy White Ass Cracker)
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To: posterchild

Yeah that’s muce. The congress better not let this happen


39 posted on 11/09/2016 8:41:44 AM PST by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: WayneS

Doesn’t matter where they go, they are never to become a state. They are a district and either they remain that way or they get folded into Maryland or Virginia or a combination of both.

As it stands, we must push for Trump to pink slip a large percentage of Federal Workers. He should eliminate four Departments on his first day.


40 posted on 11/09/2016 8:41:51 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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