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.

[5th MEB]

If the RATS get DC as a state I get JEFFERSON as a state!

[5th MEB]

Yes, about a 50 megaton NEUTRON BOMB.

[Kazan]

They don’t vote in DC? DC doesn’t get electoral votes?

[HamiltonJay]

A state completely beholden to the fed and vice versa... stupid. Which is why it’s not a state... stupidity of the left knows no bounds

[Verginius Rufus]

Another advantage to Omaha would be that if we ever went to war with England again, we'd be able to stop their invasion before they got all the way to Omaha to burn the public buildings.

But it might make motel and hotel bills too expensive for people wanting to go to Omaha for the College World Series.

[Political Junkie Too]

Of course, it wouldn't be IN Omaha. I'm sure there's a lot of open land nearby Omaha where they can find 10 square miles to cede to the federal government as the new capital district.

Just think of the shovel-ready jobs to build the new capital! Maybe they can even build it underground to protect from the tornadoes. We wouldn't want a House to fall on Nancy Pelosi.

-PJ

[Verginius Rufus]

The county just to the north of Omaha is Washington County.

So the slogan could be: Let's move Washington to Washington!

[Titus-Maximus]

Bingo.

[mooncoin]

There’s a reason why it’s important that dems never have unified power in the federal government.

If Dems win house / senate and presidency, DC will be a state, I guarantee it. If you sue, the newly expanded supreme court will rule 6-5 in favor of DC statehood.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!