Posted on 01/18/2005 4:04:36 AM PST by nickcarraway
Should New York City become the 51st state?
A bill that would create a commission to study whether the city should secede from New York state will get another hearing soon — after sitting in the City Council for nearly two years
The bill was introduced on Feb. 26, 2003. A hearing was held shortly after, but no action has been taken on the bill since then.
"I expected delays and opposition when we got to the state level, but I never thought it would be held up for two years trying to get out of a City Council committee," said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens), who introduced the bill.
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And Michigan will even throw in Flint to sweeten the deal!
If federalism worked as it's supposed to it would be a good idea. Unfortunately, the federal government recognizes no limits to it's powers, no cap to it's desire to redistribute wealth, and has relegated the Bill of Rights to the ash heap. I think NYC should be given to Cuba or Quebec. They have shown time and time again by their overwhelming support of leftist tyrants like Hitlery and upChuckie that don't deserve to be in the USA. I think that most NYC dwellers would be happier in Cuba where they'd have no rights at all.
Picking the new ambassador would be fun.
It would be a wash because the upstate Senators would be red.
Which way would LI go?
Except for Ithaca, upstate New York is quite Republican. Making NYC a state would add two Republican senators.
This is another desperate rat bull shiite idea to get two more rat senators in for life. Sorry gang it ain't happening unless you want to divide Utah Alabama and South Carolina :-)
It would be far more difficult, to my thinking, for a representative to logroll when a much larger number of voters are needed to pass that pork through. Far more trading would have to be involved. The smaller the number of legislators, the easier the logrolling (see Byrd, Robert).
But we don't disagree as to the problem of pork. Just tactics regarding how we solve it.
LI elected Carolyn McCarthy, a rabid gun and freedom hater, by large majority based solely on her campaign to do away with the 2nd Amendment rights of the rest of the country. If this doesn't give you a hint as to how they'd go I'm not sure what would.
Careful what you wish for.
What are they up to?
What are the implications?
How exactly? The only practical difference I can see is giving those mutants two new senators.
They need to become a US Territory, but not a state.
Well on the plus side in order to enter the Union they'd have to agree to abide by the constitution.
At the time, she claimed that she wasnt a one issue person. That she cared about all the other issues besides the gun issue (not that I believed her)
The very first time she ran, she claimed to have been a Republican and the reason she was running on the Democrat ticket instead of the Republican ticket was for one reason: The gun issue. She didnt like the Republican stance on the guns issue. She agreed with the Republicans on all other issues except that one. A couple weeks later I saw her on tv giving another speech about how the big bad Republicans wanted to cut and destroy medicare and social security, etc. A whole lot of hot air using words and catchphrases that were right out of the old DNC handbook of propaganda.
Not necessarily. While the NYC ones would be democrat, the remainder of the state might switch w/o the NYC vote.
Chicago should do the same. With 30% of the vote in Illinois, whoever wins Chicago, wins Illinois.
lol
MAKE MY MILLENIUM!!!
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