Sen Cotton on #DCStatehood: Dems "want two new democratic senators in perpetuity. The Democrats are angry at the American people for refusing to give them total control of the govt for going on a decade now, so they want to give the swamp as many senators as your state has."
COTTON: "They want to make Washington a state to rig the rules of our democracy and try to give the democratic party permanent power. But in doing so, the Democrats are committing an act of historical vandalism as grotesque as those committed by jacobin mobs roaming our streets."
COTTON: "Washington has just over 700,000 residents, more than Wyoming and Vermont, and about as many as Alaska. Doesn't this qualify Washington as a state? Well, if it did, we'd need a lot more states because Washington is just the 20th largest city in the country."
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."
COTTON: "What vital industries would the new state of Washington represent? Lobbying? Bureaucracy? Give me a break. By far, the largest group of workers in the city are bureaucrats & other white-collar professionals.
(It) would be nothing more than an appendage of the fed govt."
(It) would be nothing more than an appendage of the fed govt."
