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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]

I would. I live in DC and am probably more conservative than the majority of people in DC.  I am a registered Dem because so many races are decided at the primary level but have been a registered Republican in the past in other places I have lived.  I am well aware that any rep elected in DC would likely be much further left than I would like but that doesn't mean that I don't think DC should be a state.  It is just so silly to suggest that people only want representation because of what political party it is.

Do people who live in areas of the country where their reps are not the same party as them think that they would be better off with no representation at all?  No other state or area of the country has its right to representation conditioned on the dominant local party.  Eg would republicans in CA give up the right to have a senator at all if that was the only way to not have a democratic senator represent them?[/quote]

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