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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was born here and could give two figs for statehood. It's a totally drummed up hipster cause.[/quote]

You don’t care that 700,000 Americans have zero say in Federal matters??

Statehood is long overdue, and creating the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth is a way of correcting a historical error[/quote]

First, these are 700,000 Americans who choose to live where they live; they are not forced to live in DC. Second, the DC Delegate can — among other things — introduce legislation, sit on and vote in committees, and speak on the House floor. To say that DC residents have “zero say in Federal matters” is flat out wrong.

If you wish to have a voting member of Congress and two Senators, you have the freedom to move to any of the 50 states. No one will stop you.

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If the colonists had your attitude, we would still be eating tea and crumpets and praising our Britsh overlords.[/quote]

Uh, no.[/quote]

Uh, yes. You'd be a loyalist, tut-tutting at the colonists agitating for representation, saying that they knew that they would be taxed without representation when they moved to the colonies, and that if they wanted to petition the king they should've stayed in England.[/quote]

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