It’s already a disgrace that DC gets 3 electoral votes
Bump
The District of Columbia is a COUNTY, and not even a very big county, at that. If there is a move to create a STATE, let it be carved out of parts of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, the so-called “collar counties” that surround the District, so the state would be of a decent size and with SOME diversity within its boundaries.
Then move the national capital of the United States to a location along the Mississippi River, between Missouri and Illinois, which is much closer to the geographic center of the US.
Either that, or reduce the designated are of the District of Columbia to include only the White House at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol Building at the other, with a gerrymander to include the Supreme Court, and let the remainder of the territory revert to the custody of Maryland, which would accept it as an additional county, then the people of the former District of Columbia would have direct voting representation in the Congress, and representation in the Senate through Maryland.
DC already has too much power.
I would like to see some Repub agree with that idea with the condition that the State of DC take on all the illegals in our country. Welcome them all, buds.
It makes more sense to shrink DC to be 1 mile by 1 mile, and Maryland taking over the jurisdiction of the DC suburbs.
The State of Virginia has already taken a chunk of the original DC area, that is no longer 10 miles square.
There is no justification to create another state.
Repeal the 23rd!!!!!!!
I’m surprised rats didn’t take up DC Statehood when they had full control and 60 in the Senate in 2009. They WILL the next time they do (if we allow such horror to come to pass). They want those 2 free Senate seats like Michael Moore wants a Reese’s Peanut Butter cup every hour of the day. They’d reduce “DC” to a small area around the White House and Capitol, that would STILL get 3 (extra) electoral votes (determined by the homeless people they’d let live in the Capitol basement) because of the stupid 23rd amendment.
Has to be a Constitutional Amendment, needs 291 votes.
Much better to repeal XXIII, whereby Congress awarded itself 3 electoral votes in 1960 and somehow 38 states went along.
EH Norton, the black woman with the lice cut hair, pretends to be relevant by advocating the establishment of a Negro state.
When she dies, she will not be replaced. She is a tit on a boar hog
Geez! That would double the number of folks on welfare in the country!
Nooooo!
one square mile should be carved out for the actual government, largely avoiding any residential areas, and then the rest should be given to Maryland.
Conversely, it is too small, so create it but take Alexandria and Arlington from Virginia, and take Montgomery County from Maryland.
That might be enough to push Virginia back to a GOP state, and make Maryland competitive.