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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line
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Date: 15 Oct 2024 12:35:49 GMT
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On 2024-10-14, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Chris Buckley wrote:
>>It certainly was when I lived there.
>>
>>> Republicans have been floating plans to enfranchise DC residents for
>>> decades,
>>
>>Only plans that will never come to fruition.
>>
>>  but the local Democrats have been saying "no, we don't want
>>> to vote that much."  The Republican plans are to join DC and Maryland
>>> in some form, perhaps making the remaining DC part of Maryland 
>>
>>Maryland doesn't want them.  That's what makes the plan so perfect for 
>>the Republicans. It won't happen but they can say that they are doing 
>>something.
>
> The plans they have been promoting basically give residents the opportunity to
> vote as part of adjacent states, meaning that their votes will make far
> less difference than if they were able to vote a restricted representative
> to congress themselves.  Which is why nobody in DC, no matter what party,
> likes that program, even though it's better than nothing.
> --scott

DC will basically get its own Representative if it joins Maryland, but
you're right they would share Senators with the rest of Maryland.

But I see no evidence for your claim that Republicans would not like
that program; I would guess overall they would support it (but no
factual evidence to support my case either.)  They would get to vote,
and the possibility that DC would become a state with 2 Democratic
senators would be gone.

Chris