Perspective: From Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, Republicans once championed D.C. statehood
By Petula Dvorak Petula Dvorak Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist March 11 at 3:44 PM President Richard Nixon knew it.People in the District of Columbia — like all U.S. citizens — should have a voting representative and two senators in Congress.Yet here we are, trapped in the world of fake Republicans who are going to stand firmly on the side of winning, using political gamesmanship to justify this American travesty, this taxation without representation.Del.
This is not news to the people of D.C. We’ve voted overwhelmingly for statehood, and it has also gone nowhere.So I’m asking you, my state-inhabitant fellow Americans, you who get to elect voting lawmakers, who have a say in your federal government, you who have the power to turn a picture of an egg into a national issue, to listen to what’s going on here and be outraged.
Which means we have more residents than two states with voting members in Congress: Vermont and Wyoming. “What it really gets down to if you want to be honest is because they know that’s just more votes in the Democratic Party,” the Republican said during an interview with the Post editorial board, answering the question of why his party won’t support D.C. statehood.Before it became nothing more than a political football, our current president’s favorite commander in chief, Andrew Jackson — a Democrat — had some thoughts on D.C. back in 1831.
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