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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 340405, member: 4626&quot;]Um, that&#039;s not going to go anywhere lol... I think they know that too, and are just making a meaningless symbolic gesture.&nbsp; Likely they&#039;ll just approve one of them and leave the &quot;Taxation without Representation&quot; off.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2004 one of DC&#039;s electoral delegates withheld her vote in protest of this same kind of thing...&nbsp; You hear this sort of whining every so often but it&#039;s never ended up going anywhere or receiving significant attention.&nbsp; DC does have a non-voting representative in the House of Representatives.&nbsp; They&#039;re also assigned 3 electoral votes in presidential elections (even though they don&#039;t actually have representatives or senators.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way they can possibly get representation equal to that of a state is by Constitutional amendment.&nbsp; They want to go that route, good luck to them.&nbsp; (Be a very hard sell; there&#039;s reasons why the District of Columbia has never had that level of representation, not the least of which is they didn&#039;t want any state to get favorable treatment for being the location of the nation&#039;s capital; why the District of Columbia was formed in the first place in fact!)&nbsp; Any other protests are pretty much meaningless because they can&#039;t get what they&#039;re asking for legislatively.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agree with you there, except for Arlington; that&#039;s entirely in the state of Virginia and shouldn&#039;t be on a DC quarter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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