Democrats know that they may struggle to maintain their majorities in the House and Senate in next year’s midterm elections. That’s one reason Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has called for a statehood bill to be put on President Joe Biden’s desk during his first 100 days in office.That’s why I was surprised that Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington’s longtime delegate to Congress and perhaps the biggest statehood booster around, told me she wants to proceed slowly. Norton, who doesn’t get full voting rights in the chamber, said she’s convinced that the Democrats are going to expand their majorities in the House and Senate in 2022. And she wants more time for statehood advocates to build up public support. She’s worried that any vote will fail if Congress doesn’t feel pressure from the American people, or if advocates force a vote ahead of clearer national priorities, such as COVID-19 relief. A setback like that, she fears, could end the momentum that’s been steadily building for the 51st-state movement—so she wants Biden to stay away from statehood for now. “If he jumps D.C. statehood ahead of the two or three issues that have priority, people will think he’s crazy,” she said. “We’re not ready to have him jump the issue on D.C. statehood yet. We have to do more homework in the Senate.”
She's wrong. It's now or never.
She should be convinced. Not because more citizens (yet) want their agenda...she should be convinced because they will be even better at stealing federal elections. And now...they control the fed apparatus and their Dept of Just Us doesn't even need to pretend to be non-biased.
And when they follow up with transparent steal 2.0, who's going to stop them? More of the same rubber-stamping from the (R) controlled statehouses?
If we're ever going to stand a chance to get our country back, it's going to have to start now from the ground up. Local / State, with people who are not only MAGA minded...but who will actually take their oaths of office and responsibilities seriously.