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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I’m here representing a voice that is not being listened to, and that is the Blackfeet Tribe in Montana and the Wetzel family,” Daines said, according to the Washington Post. “I serve them. … I’m here representing my constituents.”

Problem is he actually gets a vote to represent his constituents, who will probably never set foot on RFK soil

But the people who live adjacent to the stadium don't get to have a senator who has a vote. We have nobody to serve us or represent us in any meaningful way- because shadow representatives can't.[/quote]
Here’s an idea. Why doesn’t the Federal government put this land up for auction like it does for surplus property. Would that be fair enough for you?[/quote]

Are you trying to be snarky?

The idea of the federal government selling the RFK land was actually proposed and discussed in a prior house committee meeting some years ago, and I do believe it was a republican representative from some flyover state who proposed it. So then DC actually put forth a bill to purchase it and it never went anywhere.

Problem is, literally cannot get any bill to get to any final vote in both houses because we do not have a representative who has a vote, which gives negotiating power for smaller issues that the majority of the US doesn't care about.

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Do I look like a Republican from a fly over state? If you read the article, it wouldn’t matter anyway if DC had a vote because this type of specific legislation requires unanimous consent. [/quote]

It would matter, because if DC reps had votes, then DC reps could use RFK as leverage when people try to garner their vote on completely unrelated issues. That's how the political tit for tat works. [/quote]

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