Originally Posted by
Mike
No, Dave that is not at all correct from my position. Politics don't enter into my thoughts other than I think DC should be apolitical or neutral outside of the Congress and the White House (and other government facilities). If that makes no sense, think of it as a DMZ free of all the partisan BS that takes place in government's houses. It should belong to all of the Citizens of the U.S. and be a place they can be proud of instead of the crap hole it has become under local governance.
I think statehood is much bigger than a city, I don't care what the population might be. Besides, if we start granting statehood to cities, they will all be clambering to secede from the states to become a city state. I don't think the Founders had that in mind.