Is a new county being created in the D.C. metropolitan area? Listen as Larry chats with David Krucoff, President of Douglass County, Maryland regarding his initiative to create a county out of Washington, D.C.
An excerpt from the Douglass County, Maryland website can be found below:
BENEFITS
Douglass County, Maryland will do the following: 1) provide full voting rights and representation to US Citizens that presently live in the District of Columbia. These citizens of Douglass County, Maryland, will live in Maryland, so they will have a congressperson that can vote on the floor of the US House of Representatives and they will also have two US senators, from their state; 2) greatly enhance the ability of DC residents to govern themselves. Presently, the US Congress and the President have final say over laws and budgets passed by the DC Council and Mayor. Douglass County, Maryland will be able to pass its own laws and have its own budget, just like Arlington, Virginia, or Baltimore, Maryland can and does. Congress will retain control over the National Capital Service Area (see Map), which will become all that is left of the District of Columbia and it will be controlled by Congress as is directed by the Constitution; and 3) increase the economic prosperity of the State of Maryland. Douglass County, Maryland will be one of the wealthiest counties in America (see Demographics). Maryland will be very fortunate to have this wealthy, beautiful, culturally diverse, and historically significant, place in its confines. [Read More]
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