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Question: Which option would you support most?
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Democrat: DC Statehood		  
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Democrat: Ceding DC to Maryland		  
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Democrat: Status Quo		  
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Republican: DC Statehood		  
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Republican: Ceding DC to Maryland		  
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Republican: Status Quo		  
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independent/third party: DC Statehood		  
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independent/third party: Ceding DC to Maryland		  
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independent/third party: Status Quo		  
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« on: September 21, 2007, 08:54:15 PM »
Democrat: Ceding DC to Maryland
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« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2007, 09:09:36 PM »
Full statehood.
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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2007, 10:14:34 PM »
Full statehood
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2007, 11:10:12 PM »

Status quo/other.  The real solution would be to move the residents out of the city to open up the land for government use.  The capitol needs to be independent of states.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2007, 11:24:06 PM »
Constitutional amendment.
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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2007, 01:13:31 AM »
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2007, 02:44:17 AM »
other: voting rights for the DC representative
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« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2007, 03:07:35 AM »
Republican D.C. Statehood.  Or "Federal Territory" with all the benefits of statehood if you don't want to call it a state.
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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2007, 11:15:14 AM »
Full statehood.
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« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2007, 11:54:34 AM »
Full Statehood. If it was ceded to a state, I'd choose Virginia.
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« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2007, 10:38:59 PM »
(L) -- status quo.

I thought the whole point of having the District was for residency issues for Congress.  You must be a resident of the STATE you represent, so if DC was made a state, we'd have to create a different District, or other non-state entity where the members of Congress could live, otherwise they would be a resident of DC.

Then again, it has been close to 20 years since I took a Civics class, so I could be totally wrong...
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« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2007, 11:17:38 PM »
Quote from: bergie72 on September 23, 2007, 10:38:59 PM
(L) -- status quo.

I thought the whole point of having the District was for residency issues for Congress.  You must be a resident of the STATE you represent, so if DC was made a state, we'd have to create a different District, or other non-state entity where the members of Congress could live, otherwise they would be a resident of DC.

Then again, it has been close to 20 years since I took a Civics class, so I could be totally wrong...

The point of having the district was so that no state would be able to hold any sort of undue power or influence over the capital or the federal government.  The idea was to prevent a state from holding the federal government hostage.  At the time, this was a very prudent idea, but in the 200+ years that have passed since then it has become unnecessary.  I doubt any of the states would have the ability or political will to do such a thing. 

Also, I'm pretty sure most members of Congress don't live in the district.  A lot of them have posh pads in Virginia and Maryland.
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« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2007, 11:42:50 PM »
Quote from: padfoot714 on September 23, 2007, 11:17:38 PM
Quote from: bergie72 on September 23, 2007, 10:38:59 PM
(L) -- status quo.

I thought the whole point of having the District was for residency issues for Congress.  You must be a resident of the STATE you represent, so if DC was made a state, we'd have to create a different District, or other non-state entity where the members of Congress could live, otherwise they would be a resident of DC.

Then again, it has been close to 20 years since I took a Civics class, so I could be totally wrong...

The point of having the district was so that no state would be able to hold any sort of undue power or influence over the capital or the federal government.  The idea was to prevent a state from holding the federal government hostage.  At the time, this was a very prudent idea, but in the 200+ years that have passed since then it has become unnecessary.  I doubt any of the states would have the ability or political will to do such a thing. 

Also, I'm pretty sure most members of Congress don't live in the district.  A lot of them have posh pads in Virginia and Maryland.

Exactly half of the Senate has a second home in Alexandria, Virginia. I don't know about the others, but I'd guess very few live in DC itself (mostly because Senators are generally not from cities and therefore don't like living in them and because the amount of non-ghetto in DC is quite small).
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« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2007, 01:07:30 AM »
Quote from: MODU on September 21, 2007, 11:10:12 PM

Status quo/other.  The real solution would be to move the residents out of the city to open up the land for government use.  The capitol needs to be independent of states.

Cede everything except federal government property to Maryland.  This would make the capitol independent of the states, but put all residents and businesses in a state.

I realize this would create a patchwork of a district, but it would afford the residents of Washington more representation.
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« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2007, 05:26:23 AM »
Independent/Statehood
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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2009, 07:24:29 PM »
Might be an opportune time to bump this...

Oh, and BTW -I still haven't changed my mind on this.
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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2009, 07:33:00 PM »
Ceding DC to Maryland.
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« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2009, 09:04:43 PM »
Democrat/Statehood.  This must be done through a Constitutional Amendment, giving DC all the rights of a state.
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« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2009, 09:11:06 PM »
...Why the hell would Maryland want D.C.?
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« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2009, 12:11:45 PM »
     (I/O) Cede DC to Maryland.
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« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2009, 12:13:47 PM »
statehood while maintaining a tiny federal district that includes the capitol buildings.  sort of like the Vatican but probably with fewer residents.
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« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2009, 10:37:19 PM »
Republican, cede DC to Maryland (Maryland deserves to punished for voting Democrat most of the time and giving Republicans Steele and Agnew.)
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« Reply #22 on: March 26, 2009, 01:14:03 PM »
Full representation in the House, otherwise no change.
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« Reply #23 on: March 26, 2009, 01:20:18 PM »
Conan had it right. Shocked Grin
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« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2009, 01:15:35 AM »
statehood, but Ceding DC to Maryland would be ok too.
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