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Karen Szulgit wrote the following letter to the editor of The Washington Times about a recent article on D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's lack of funding for statehood in his proposed 2011 budget despite his strong support for D.C. statehood in his inaugural address in 2007.
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Several Washington, D.C. columnists has written postmortems on the voting rights bill. Washington Post columnist Colby King suggests in an April 24th column that D.C. needs a constitutional amendment. Post columnist Robert McCartney finds in his April 22, 2010 column that there is lots of blame to go around and a need for new ideas. In an April 25, 2010, op-ed, WTOP's Mark Plotkin looks to President Obama. Even Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles adds his comment. D.C. statehood activists Ann Loikow and Charles Cassell wonder why they don't focus on statehood instead. For full articles and comments, read more.
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On January 20, 2010, Washington journalist, Tom Sherwood wrote in the Current Newspapers, in Tom Sherwood's Notebook, and on NBC Washington about President Obama's observance of Martin Luther King's birthday and the opportunity missed, concluding: "But, again, on the umpteenth occasion, the president failed to mention our lack of voting rights in Congress. It would have been the right place and the right thing to do. ... But it was another opportunity missed." For the complete article, read more.
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D.C. businessman and statehood advocate, Wally Dickson read Mark Plotkin's July 5, 2009 op-ed in the Washington Post and thought he deserved setting straight. For Wally's letter and Mark's column, read more.
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On September 16, 2000, Ralph Nader, a candidate for President in the 2000 election, issued a strong statement in support of statehood for the District of Columbia.
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