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In article <vem74g$1pf4u$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 10/15/2024 8:35 AM, Chris Buckley wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Just throwing in the fact that Wyoming has fewer people than DC,
>but does get two Senators and a Comgresswoman.
>
>pt

I believe minimum State population would be 6:

	1 governor
	1 state rep (unicameral is fine)
	1 state judge
	2 federal senators
	1 federal congresscritter
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