Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) via Frank Thorp V:
COTTON on #DCStatehood: "Yes, Wyoming is smaller than Washington by population, but it has three times as many workers in mining, logging and construction, and ten times as many workers in manufacturing. In other words, Wyoming is a well-rounded working-class state."
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 25, 2020
We’d need more states because of all these big cities? This is known as ignoring relevant facts, in this case the fact that residents of Washington, DC, have no federal representation (“No Taxation Without Representation” not important any longer, eh, Cotton?), unlike Los Angeles, New York City, and, oh, all the rest of them.
It’s even better than trying to be on the side of all those working-class people by dividing them from the equally hard working people of Washington, DC. A classic attempt to divide the people from each other by Cotton, whose reelection efforts already reek of dubious ethics.
