Harry Jaffe: Keep your vote and guns — free D.C. from taxes

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The crusade to get full voting rights for D.C. in Congress is dead. Kaput. Finished. O-v-e-r.

On the verge of victory, Democratic leaders pulled the pending bill last week. That was the District’s last best shot. Utah, which was to gain another red seat to balance the District’s blue, is balking. New census numbers might take Utah out of the equation and bring in a Democratic state such as Massachusetts. Bye-bye balance. Democrats might lose their majorities in the next election.

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