Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line of Succession

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.
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Republicans have been floating plans to enfranchise DC residents for
decades,

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Only plans that will never come to fruition.
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 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

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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.

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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