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sharedvalues

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1. Let's get 48 DC statehood bills! (Reason DC not a state: GOP politics.)

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Apr 21, 2017, 08:40 PM

Apr 2017

A strategic thing Dems could do: Make DC a state.

It must be incredibly frustrating for DC residents, especially with Indivisible going on, to have no one to call.

How can DC pay more federal income taxes than any other state, and yet have no representatives?

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Let's get 48 DC statehood bills! (Reason DC not a state: GOP politics.) sharedvalues Apr 2017 #1

Yes, indeed, incredibly frustrating; elleng Apr 2017 #2

DC isn't going to be a state. You can't have a single state controlling the Federal Government PoliticAverse Apr 2017 #3

If you can't drive to Hawaii - needledriver Apr 2017 #4