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NEW BID TO MAKE CITY 51ST STATE (NYC)
New York Post ^ | January 18, 2005 | STEPHANIE GASKELL

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; megalopolis; newcolumbia; newyorkcity; statehood; us; vallone
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To: nickcarraway
STATEHOOD FOR DETROIT!!!!!!

And Michigan will even throw in Flint to sweeten the deal!

21 posted on 01/18/2005 4:37:02 AM PST by KidGlock (W-1)
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To: anniegetyourgun

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.


22 posted on 01/18/2005 4:38:02 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: nickcarraway
I say make NYC It's own Nation, then surround it with barbed wire and CBP checkpoints.

Picking the new ambassador would be fun.

23 posted on 01/18/2005 4:40:31 AM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: goldstategop
the aim is to create Blue City State Senators

It would be a wash because the upstate Senators would be red.

24 posted on 01/18/2005 4:41:55 AM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: nickcarraway

Which way would LI go?


25 posted on 01/18/2005 4:43:47 AM PST by Buck W. (How can anyone who works for a living vote democrat?)
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To: Thane_Banquo

Except for Ithaca, upstate New York is quite Republican. Making NYC a state would add two Republican senators.


26 posted on 01/18/2005 4:43:53 AM PST by kidd
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To: nickcarraway

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 :-)


27 posted on 01/18/2005 4:53:52 AM PST by jmaroneps37 ( Frist/ Blackwell in 2008 for a landslide: you saw it here first.)
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To: Founding Father

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.


28 posted on 01/18/2005 4:54:40 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: nickcarraway
NY/Long Island would make a good state. They would keep their two Donk Senators, and there would be two new Republican Senators from Upstate. Of course, that would mean that Hillary! would have to move from Chappaqua to Massapequa, so I guess the whole deal is off. Nothing that would inconvenience Hillary! is desirable or permitted.
29 posted on 01/18/2005 4:55:04 AM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Buck W.

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.


30 posted on 01/18/2005 4:56:00 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: anniegetyourgun
What a cool idea.....isolate the leftist whackjobs! I think this approach could also work for SF, Seattle, Portland, and other blue state strongholds!

Careful what you wish for.

What are they up to?
What are the implications?

31 posted on 01/18/2005 5:01:05 AM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen, ignorance and stupidity.)
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To: kittymyrib
Our problems with that infestation of blue cockroaches could be solved with that vote.

How exactly? The only practical difference I can see is giving those mutants two new senators.

32 posted on 01/18/2005 5:02:52 AM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen, ignorance and stupidity.)
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To: nickcarraway

They need to become a US Territory, but not a state.


34 posted on 01/18/2005 5:08:10 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well on the plus side in order to enter the Union they'd have to agree to abide by the constitution.


35 posted on 01/18/2005 5:14:12 AM PST by rottweiller_inc
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To: from occupied ga
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.

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.

36 posted on 01/18/2005 5:17:11 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Thane_Banquo
Transparant attempt by liberals to gain two more Democratic Senators.

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.

37 posted on 01/18/2005 5:19:00 AM PST by PetroniDE (Profile of Winners: Red Sox, Patriots, President Bush, Free Republic)
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To: ZOOKER

lol


39 posted on 01/18/2005 5:22:26 AM PST by verity (The Liberal Media is America's Enemy)
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To: nickcarraway
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...

MAKE MY MILLENIUM!!!

40 posted on 01/18/2005 5:22:45 AM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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