Gerry Connolly actually said...

Washingtonians must endure lectures about their unfitness for democracy from other people's representatives...

In a 2016 referendum, 86 percent of the residents of Washington, DC. voted in favor of D.C. Statehood.

It was not a Democratic protest or response. It was not a Republican protest or response. It was an American response to an injustice.

You have exercised your rights under the First Amendment and the Ninth Amendment to petition for statehood admission, and we salute your pat...