The Donkey Party — which in the past brought us slavery, the Civil War, and 100 years of Jim Crow (ALL of which the GOP cleaned up) — should shut up about states added in the 19th Century that chose to elect Republican senators.
Read Is DC statehood about fair representation or Democratic power grab? from KSL.com. Excerpt copied below:
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, does not favor D.C. statehood but suggested a compromise that would make the District part of a contiguous state and able to vote with that state.
“My own view is that we should maintain the system we have and not try and pack the Senate, like the Democrats are trying to pack the Supreme Court,” he told reporters Tuesday. “But if there were a desire to provide greater representation for the people of D.C., combining D.C. with Maryland, from which the land was originally taken, would make more sense.”
Amen to that!
—MRW