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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are for DC Statehood ask yourself if you would still be for it if DC were predominantly Republican. Of course you wouldn’t. It is a Democrat power grab plain and simple. [/quote]
Projection. Republicans used to widely support full Congressional representation for DC and it was part of their platform for decades. It’s the Republicans who have changed.
“The issue of representation for the people of D.C. has not changed at all,” says Perry O’Brien, the organizing director of Common Defense and a member of the Defend American Democracy coalition, who has compiled a history of past GOP support for various proposals on the issue. “What has changed is if the Republican Party was ever seriously concerned about preserving our basic democratic institutions, they clearly are not any longer.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/republicans-used-back-dc-statehood-what-changed/619221/
That list is here: 
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5db9d9e198db5517dd0e9eb4/t/60ca960afb70df3f190dfc52/1623889418620/210608-Conservative-Voices+on-Statehood.pdf[/quote]

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