Democrats push to make D.C. a state is gaining momentum

Buzzfeed ^ | 6/13/19 | Emily Ashcroft

[david1292]

WASHINGTON — After over 200 years without voting rights, the efforts to allow Washington, DC, to become the 51st state are gaining traction. The House of Representatives has set the first-ever congressional hearing on statehood legislation, and now a majority of the Democrats running for president say they support making DC a state.

The House will hold a hearing July 24 for the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which would put the nation’s capital on even ground with other states, giving it two voting senators and at least one representative. The bill would end “taxation without representation” in DC — a passive-aggressive slogan used on license plates in Washington to bring attention to the statehood fight.

The act is sponsored by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents DC’s more than 700,000 residents in Congress and who currently can propose legislation but cannot vote on bills. Her statehood bill has 209 Democratic cosponsors.

Meanwhile, the 51 for 51 campaign is pushing members of Congress and presidential candidates to support making the district a state with 51 votes in the Senate instead of the 60 votes currently required with the filibuster. Stasha Rhodes, campaign manager for 51 for 51, said the campaign sent seven people, six of whom are native to Washington, DC, to Iowa to speak with Democratic presidential candidates about statehood through 51 votes in the Senate. They spoke with seven presidential candidates who said they supported their proposed path to statehood: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, Gov. Steve Bullock, and Reps. Eric Swalwell, Tim Ryan, and John Delaney. The group from 51 for 51 tweeted videos of themselves speaking to the candidates.

[crusher2013]

Exactly and then disperse the Federal Government around the country.

With modern technology it is no longer a requirement that they all be in on place.

[Amendment10]

Just like trying to cut California into smaller states and building up the number of undocumented Democrats despite risks to citizens, desperate, lawless Democrats are looking for ways to compensate for unthinkingly supporting the murder of unborn Democratic voters to try to win control of the Senate again.

Same idea with enlarging Supreme Court.

[House Atreides]

wonder how many electoral votes that would get them.
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See post 19 above.

I believe they CURRENTLY have three electoral votes. If they go back to Maryland then they would lose those three electoral votes and Maryland would likely gain one additional Congresscritter. So the net result is that the ‘RATS would lose two electoral votes, the Congresscritter from DC would (as a then representative from expanded Maryland) have a vote and the ‘RATS would not have two new Senators. This is why they resist going back to Maryland.

[Political Junkie Too]

The only Constitutional way to make DC a state is to move the Capital somewhere else.

I would support this. I always said we should get our so-called elites out of that marble columned city.

Move the Capital to Omaha, make DC a state, and turn the whole city into a museum.

-PJ

[OldMissileer]

What’s wrong with DC being absorbed into VA or MD?

DC is on the east side of the Potomac and Maryland is already a Communist State, so let them have it.

Virginia is already becoming a blue state and we have our own troubles. We don't need all those cretins from DC here.

[Twotone]

The original 10 square miles of DC was supposed to be the seat of the Federal Gov’t. There shouldn’t have been any residential district there in the first place. Use eminent domain to seize all properties & bulldoze everything. Let current residents move to another state.

[Brilliant]

Give it to Maryland.

[Nateman]

Thousands of nameless faceless bureaucrats already have vast powers beyond what the Constitution actually allowed. Giving them more power would only be adding gasoline to the flames.

[KittyKares]

Thank you. I missed that.

[jmaroneps37]

Among Democrats maybe; real American? No way!

[faithhopecharity]

new state admission is governed by the constitution...thusly:

“New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”
Constitution, Article 4 Section 3, Clause 1

[blueyon]

ONLY REASON (IN MY OPINION) THEY ARE PUSHING THIS IS SO THEY CAN GET A HOUSE AND SENATE SEAT....tip the numbers more in their favor for a majority....democrats always have an unspoken motive

[Amendment10]

"Just like trying to cut California into smaller states and building up the number of undocumented Democrats despite risks to citizens, desperate, lawless Democrats are looking for ways to compensate for unthinkingly supporting the murder of unborn Democratic voters to try to win control of the Senate again.

Same idea with enlarging Supreme Court."

Here’s another way that Democrats proving social Darwinism are trying to buy votes to survive.

It Begins: House Subcommittee To Hold Hearing On Slavery Reparations

The former Confederate States can chip in for slavery reparations if they want to imo.

Otherwise, the states have never amended the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of reparations, not even in the post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.



[Reily]

Virginia absorbing it’s share of DC occurred in 1846 - the Retrocession Act. So we have the model.

Here’s my solution

1. Federal employees can’t vote in federal election. Can vote in state, county, city.
2. State employees can’t vote in state elections, can in federal, county & local.

3. County employees, etc
4. City employees etc.

Or we could decertify FedGov employee unions, easiest to do since they were allowed via EO, could be decertified with a EO.

Also actually enforce the Hatch Act would be a good first start. GOP administrations pretend to, Rat administrations pretend it doesn’t exist.

[hanamizu]

They want representation?
Return all the inhabited part of DC back to Maryland.
Keep the Federal mall area as DC.

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Ah, but then there’s the 23rd Amendment. The Federal Mall area gets 3 electoral votes?

[Old Yeller]

Send congress home and let them telecomute.

[hanamizu]

I don’t recall any other state that became one via constitutional amendment.

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The District is specifically mentioned in two places in the Constitution. In the body of the document itself and in the 23 Amendment. Don’t see how it can become a state without altering both parts where it is mentioned.

The original reason for having a Federal capital district is so that no state would have power over the seat of the Federal government. The District voted for Hillary Clinton by something like 92%. Imagine the hostility of such a state government against President Trump. Look at what New York state government is trying.

[be-baw]

“The District is specifically mentioned in two places in the Constitution. In the body of the document itself and in the 23 Amendment. Don’t see how it can become a state without altering both parts where it is mentioned.”

Thanks!

[Wuli]

Looking for a Trump veto, to buy “black” votes in 2020.

THAT is the sole purpose of such things. ALWAYS.

[Political Junkie Too]

Move the Capital to Omaha, make DC a state, and turn the whole city into a museum.

I suggest Omaha for these reasons:

1. It's in the center of the country and protected from invasion or missile attacks.
2. Strategic Air Command is there.
3. Offutt Air Force Base can become the new Andrews.
4. It will tweak the elite's sense of superiority to be away from the marbled palace of DC. People would have to REALLY want to serve in government if they had to live in Omaha.
5. DC would make a superb national landmark city/museum, and can hold international conferences, national ceremonies, etc. Just move the offices of government away from there.
6. Don't allow the elites to name a ceremonial capital somewhere else while the true legislating remains in DC as a state.

-PJ