Letters to other states’ US Senators may not mean much, but sometimes it might help to try. As a DC resident whose grew up, and whose parents still live, in Michigan, when I saw both Michigan senators listed as co-introducers of the DC Statehood bill, I thought maybe it was worth a shot….
“Thank you for supporting DC Statehood – Please reject the Republicans’ destructive CR”
As a native Michigander, born in Lansing and raised in Ann Arbor, who has lived in the District of Columbia since 2017, I want to say thank you to Senator Peters for being one of the first original cosponsors of S.51, the DC Statehood bill. Since I and my 700,000 neighbors in DC have no voice in the Senate, I also want to ask my parents’ senators to be that voice and to stand up to the House Republicans’ latest effort to not only destroy what limited home-rule we are afforded, but our already-approved current-year budget as well.
As a resident of the District for nearly 8 years, I am well aware that our city has issues. Summarily cutting our city’s budget by nearly 1/6—while also imposing massive new costs by cutting our largest employment center off at the knees and suddenly thrusting tens of thousands of our residents onto unemployment—will do nothing to resolve them and will in fact make them much worse.
I used to work in state government, until the agency I worked for had its budget cut by 27% two months after the fiscal year started. I have also lived through multiple shutdowns of Federal government since I’ve been in DC. I can honestly say that it would be better for the government to be shut down than to pass this reckless, hurtful CR that will only make the problems of the District, and the entire nation, worse.
Back to topCitation
@online{swiderski2025,
author = {Swiderski, J. I.},
title = {Letters to {Senators}},
date = {2025-03-10},
url = {https://jski.net/posts/senators.html},
langid = {en}
}