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Republican Virginia Delegate Says He'd Support Giving Alexandria And Arlington To D.C.
https://dcist.com/story/20/01/21/republican-virginia-delegate-says-hed-support-giving-alexandria-and-arlington-to-d-c/
A Republican delegate in Virginia is apparently game to gift large, politically inconvenient swaths of his state to the District of Columbia.
Some jurisdictions in Virginia “are becoming more like California and New York,” Delegate Dave LaRock told a reporter for the Winchester Star last week. The delegate—who represents a district that encompasses parts of Frederick, Loudoun, and Clarke counties—went on to say that “he could get behind a move to have more liberal jurisdictions such as Arlington and Alexandria become part of Washington, D.C.,” per the Winchester Star.
“While we’re all Virginians, the values—the liberal values—that guide policy seem to be very different in these concentrated areas where Democrats dominate, and that’s most of Northern Virginia,” LaRock tells DCist.
A Facebook page associated with LaRock’s campaign for delegate vociferously supported the suggestion, which he offered up as an alternative to the idea that Frederick County should perhaps be subsumed into West Virginia, a state that aligns closer politically with constituents there. Last week, the West Virginia Senate adopted a resolution that recalled the state’s 158-year-old invitation to Frederick County to become a part of the state.
“As concentrations of Democrats near WDC NoVa, want to dictate how ROVA (rest-of-Virginia) lives, Frederick County Va. considers joining WV. Please, instead, just SQUARE THE BOX,” reads a post on the Facebook page, along with an image of a map filling in the missing part of D.C.’s diamond. “Give Arlington and Alexandria to the District of Columbia.”
A Republican delegate in Virginia is apparently game to gift large, politically inconvenient swaths of his state to the District of Columbia.
Some jurisdictions in Virginia “are becoming more like California and New York,” Delegate Dave LaRock told a reporter for the Winchester Star last week. The delegate—who represents a district that encompasses parts of Frederick, Loudoun, and Clarke counties—went on to say that “he could get behind a move to have more liberal jurisdictions such as Arlington and Alexandria become part of Washington, D.C.,” per the Winchester Star.
“While we’re all Virginians, the values—the liberal values—that guide policy seem to be very different in these concentrated areas where Democrats dominate, and that’s most of Northern Virginia,” LaRock tells DCist.
A Facebook page associated with LaRock’s campaign for delegate vociferously supported the suggestion, which he offered up as an alternative to the idea that Frederick County should perhaps be subsumed into West Virginia, a state that aligns closer politically with constituents there. Last week, the West Virginia Senate adopted a resolution that recalled the state’s 158-year-old invitation to Frederick County to become a part of the state.
“As concentrations of Democrats near WDC NoVa, want to dictate how ROVA (rest-of-Virginia) lives, Frederick County Va. considers joining WV. Please, instead, just SQUARE THE BOX,” reads a post on the Facebook page, along with an image of a map filling in the missing part of D.C.’s diamond. “Give Arlington and Alexandria to the District of Columbia.”
Let's see if we can get voting representation to go with our taxation as part of such a deal.
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anyone who thinks voters should choose their politicians, is a socialist. 
With a Dem state legislature, they're having a hard time passing voter suppression and other laws to screw over people. Their goal is always to have fewer Democrats. Dems tend to be concentrated in urban areas making it easy.
