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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Read the tea leaves.  Nationally members of congress won’t risk their seats for DC Statehood.

2. Pushing DC further to the left makes us an anathema to the national party.

3. So, vote with Md. or return to Md. but statehood will never occur.  [/quote]

Retrocession is such a ridiculous argument. DC separated from Maryland in 1790, before most of the rest of the country existed. We should sooner argue for the Dakotas to be united. This is all just part of the GOP wanting to retain their unfair and unrepresentative majority in the Senate. [/quote]

Ah but the Dakotas are states.  The DC statehood advocates can bang all they want on their little plastic drums (the kind street urchins played outside of Metro stations) but statehood recedes ever more each year as an attainable goal.  Want representation in Congress?  Retrocession may be a long shot but it’s a heckuva lot more real than DC statehood.[/quote]

Maryland does NOT want DC, that's the problem. If DC were to become apart of Maryland, not only will there never be another Republican governor of the state (something the MD GOP would absolutely hate) but the balance of power would shift from Baltimore to DC and that creates its own set of issues. Retrocession is not happening, give it up.[/quote]

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