Category Archives: Equal rights for D.C.

No Tang for the 600,000

Posted on Friday, 27 January 2012 22:51 by David Gorsline

Martin Austermuhle pulls a screen capture from Stephen Colbert’s recent “analysis” of Newt Gingrich’s plans to enfranchise 13,000 Moon colonists, prospectively granting them statehood.

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Where can I get a sticker?

Posted on Friday, 28 October 2011 23:05 by David Gorsline

Martin Austermuhle reports that D.C. Councilman Michael A. Brown will roll out a new campaign for statehood for the District, to be launched 8 November.

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Free D.C.: 1

Posted on Saturday, 25 June 2011 20:40 by David Gorsline

400 protesters rallied today in support of voting rights and self-determination for the District of Columbia, per Martin Austermuhle’s report.

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Support where we can get it

Posted on Friday, 10 June 2011 19:06 by David Gorsline

Via Greater Greater Washington, Councilman David Catania’s office reports that New Hampshire State Representative Cindy Rosenwald (D-22nd District) has introduced a resolution “expressing support for admitting the District of Columbia as the fifty-first State” to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

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Closing in on Vermont

Posted on Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:21 by David Gorsline

As of the 2010 Census:

  • State of Wyoming
    • Resident men, women, and children: 563,626
    • Voting representatives in the U. S. Senate and U. S. House of Representatives: 3
  • District of Columbia
    • Resident men, women, and children: 601,723
    • Voting representatives in the U. S. Senate and U. S. House of Representatives: 0

That is just gol dang wrong.

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