Posted on 09/08/2014 7:14:32 PM PDT by SMGFan
It took more than a year, but D.C. statehood advocates are finally getting the hearing that Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Thomas R. Carper promised.
The Delaware Democrat will hold a full committee hearing Sept. 15 on his “New Columbia Admission Act,” a bill that would unite the eight wards of the city into a full-fledged state, excluding federal landmarks such as the Capitol, White House and Supreme Court. Carper introduced the measure in January 2013 and six months later tweeted about a fall 2013 hearing on statehood.
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Yup. And a Democratic House seat.
If Democrats imagine Republicans are going to give them three free seats, they’re fools.
As an election year partisan stunt, its DOA.
Hey. It took us a long time to be able to get out of the Freak State and move to Virginia. No way we’re going to be part of that mess again.
I’m surprised the rats don’t harp on this more often, DISENFRANCHISED DISENFRANCHISED DISENFRANCHISED.
I’d be loathe to just give them to Maryland, which would screw over Maryland taxpayer, give Maryland another seat in the House at the expense of someone else, and end any chance of Maryland EVER electing a Republican statewide again (which may never happen anyway).
Sticking the liberal parts of VA in MD as well would make political sense for the GOP (as would Auh2o’s idea of a new state with leftist NOVA, DC, and parts of MD, which would leave Maryland more competitive and Virginia safe Republican) and I’d favor that, but that will never happen.
In lieu of way to include them that doesn’t provide a net benefit to the democrat party, I’m fine with them having no vote in Congress, they can adopt Charlie Rangel as their honorary Rep. If they don’t like that, they can move to a state. Based on the quality of their local officials, most of them should not have the right to vote anyway, they do as well with it as the Iraqis have, I would abolish their local control and appoint a commission to run the city. They should never have been given 3 electoral votes.
Democrats would never admit a tiny Republican city state or probably even let it govern itself.
Speaking of their local officials. The race for Mayor is this year, the candidates are a feminazi rat party shill, who beat the incumbent in the primary, an ultraliberal gay ex-RINO, and another ex-RINO (and frequent GOP nominee for Mayor) who was bribed to enter the race in order to take votes from the other ex-RINO.
NoVA isn’t Virginia anymore, not since the early ‘90s. It’s part of the ever increasing DC cancer. Remove it and Virginia goes back to normal again (and I don’t mean the Orwellian newspeak color “Red”). While they’re at it, give Richmond, Charlottesville and the remainder of the Delmarva Peninsula to MD, too.
Y’know, since the entire point of creating DC was to have it so that those living close in to the federal government (and hence benefitting from it) would not be able to influence it (via voting), had the Founding Fathers been around today, they’d likely strongly approve the entire DC environs (comprised of Auh2orepublican’s New Columbia statehood notion) would be its own entity AND thoroughly ineligible to cast any political votes.
In fact, when DC was given the opportunity to vote for its own Mayor (Governor) and Delegate to Congress during Reconstruction, it turned out to be such an epic-level fiasco (via an orgiastic spending spree and corruption by Mayor-Governor Alexander “Boss” Shepherd), Congress swiftly yanked their vote across the board and changed it to an appointive Board of Commissioners, which lasted nearly a century.
You are playing my song. Let's get the bas*#^$s away from the influence of lobbyists and Arm twisters of all political stripes. Maybe they will start listening to their EMPLOYERS!!!
No. No statehood for DC.
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