Kasich: I oppose DC statehood because it would give more votes to Dems

[moose65]

46. It is insane and wrong, wrong, wrong!

There are 675,000 people who live in Washington, DC... more than in the entire states of Wyoming and Vermont. It is absolutely un-American that they do not have representation in the House and the Senate. I understand the political side of this - for years, the Republican solution was to add them to Maryland, which is already a blue state, and the Democratic solution was to add them to Virginia and turn that state blue. In the meantime, though, the growth of the suburbs of DC in Virginia has effectively already turned Virginia blue. What's the solution? I think we should have this discussion in the broader context of increasing the size of the House. I think we need many, many more Congressional districts. After the next census in 2020, we will see many states whose population has increased, but who will lose House seats because the population didn't increase fast enough. I think that the solution for DC would be to let the residents of DC vote for Senators in Maryland; and then we increase the size of the House and give DC its own House member, as well as adding 100 (?) seats to the House. The Repubs, of course, will be against this but history is on OUR side - the size of the House was routinely increased after each census until 1920, when it wasn't done - and guess who was in charge of Congress at the time?? Yep, the Republicans, who also passed the law in 1929 fixing the size of the House at 435. I don't know what the ideal size would be, but I'm guessing that adding 100 seats would be a good number!