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windjammer
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« on: July 03, 2016, 01:32:54 PM »

I support D.C. Statehood personally.
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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2016, 01:43:35 PM »

Off course, it's fundamentally Un-American that over 600,000 people who pay full taxes and are American citizens have zero voting representation in Congress.
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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2016, 01:51:05 PM »

Off course, it's fundamentally Un-American that over 600,000 people who pay full taxes and are American citizens have zero voting representation in Congress.
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2016, 01:56:55 PM »

Merge it with Maryland.
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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2016, 02:29:20 PM »


Maryland would have to approve, polling shows that Marylanders do not.
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« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2016, 02:34:38 PM »

No, because it goes against the idea of a separate national capital. If DC residents want Congressional representation they can already get it - move to any of the 50 states.
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« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2016, 02:40:45 PM »

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« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2016, 02:53:01 PM »

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« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2016, 02:54:14 PM »

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« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2016, 02:58:59 PM »
« Edited: July 03, 2016, 03:01:50 PM by Gass3268 »

No, because it goes against the idea of a separate national capital. If DC residents want Congressional representation they can already get it - move to any of the 50 states.

The idea would be there would still be a small District of Columbia that includes the Capitol, White House, Mall, Monuments, some federal buildings, etc, while the rest of the city would become a new state. Also all lot of people just can't afford to leave. I don't see why living in the Nation's Capital should exclude them the rights of every other America.

If Trump results in a Democratic wave that results in total control, second thing they should do, after national redistricting reform, is DC Statehood.
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« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2016, 03:04:39 PM »

Yes or have a vote to join Virginia or Maryland.
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« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2016, 03:31:29 PM »

No.

But, they should be entitled to a voting representative in Congress.
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« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2016, 03:33:11 PM »

If Trump results in a Democratic wave that results in total control, second thing they should do, after national redistricting reform, is DC Statehood.

I second this. There is just no good reason to deny them the same representation that everyone else gets. If there are concerns for the federal government (whatever they may be), those can be addressed in the state constitution when Congress admits them. Or we could just pass a constitutional amendment giving the district 2 Senators and 1 House Rep. Hard to see that happening, seeing as Republicans would rather disenfranchise 650,000+ people than do anything that hurts their Senate majority.

Just love how some people who already have representation are so indifferent to the fact that hundreds of thousands of their fellow Americans are being deprived of the same. This issue should have been handled many decades ago, because it's clear now that when it comes to freakin voting rights and fair elections, politicians no longer care about it if it effects their party's chances. How American of them.
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« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2016, 03:46:43 PM »

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« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2016, 04:52:51 PM »

Ambivalent

But, they should be entitled to a voting representative in Congress.

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« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2016, 04:59:37 PM »

Obviously (sane)

Why do those who oppose this hate America? No taxation without representation is one of our founding principles! I bet back during the revolution they would've been Loyalist redcoat butt kissers.
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« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2016, 06:45:37 PM »

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« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2016, 07:12:56 PM »

No, absolutely not.
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« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2016, 07:14:58 PM »

Obviously (sane)

Why do those who oppose this hate America? No taxation without representation is one of our founding principles! I bet back during the revolution they would've been Loyalist redcoat butt kissers.

It's because it would give those awful DEMONcRATS more chance to take back Congress!
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« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2016, 07:22:02 PM »

Obviously (sane)

Why do those who oppose this hate America? No taxation without representation is one of our founding principles! I bet back during the revolution they would've been Loyalist redcoat butt kissers.

It's because it would give those awful DEMONcRATS more chance to take back Congress!

Yeah, I really don't see any possible justification for opposing this other than pure partisan hackery. Which is fine, many of us are partisan hacks. But lets at least be honest. Tongue
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« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2016, 08:40:05 PM »

Yes (not a racist)
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« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2016, 09:02:52 PM »

Why not just give it the same Congressional representation as it would have otherwise? If it became a state, it would ruin the idea of a city separate from the states.
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« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2016, 09:26:04 PM »

Yes or have a vote to join Virginia or Maryland.

Or at least let it have a separate, fully independent governing body that makes its own laws and so that prohibitionist assholes like Andy Harris can't touch their weed.
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« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2016, 09:35:48 PM »

Why not just give it the same Congressional representation as it would have otherwise? If it became a state, it would ruin the idea of a city separate from the states.

Yeah, who cares what black people think! Muh outdated political concepts.
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« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2016, 12:26:30 PM »

It should be part of Maryland, as Ottawa is part of Ontario. 
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