[CQ-Contest] DC and NAQP

[Jeffrey Embry]

Coversely, one could ask why is there so much resistance to DC being
considered ad a mult by the organizers?

This debate had gone for several years, and it seems that neither side
wants to even compromise or even have a healthy conversation about it.

73

Jeff Embry  K3OQ
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On Aug 10, 2012 9:56 PM, "George Fremin III" <geoiii at kkn.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:59:28PM -0400, Jeffrey Embry wrote:
>
> > If this is indeed the case, then perhaps Virginia, Massachusetts,
> Kentucky,
> > and Pennsylvania, while politically different are technically
> Commonwealths
> > and not States.
>
> Whatever.
>
> I think they are states.
>
> Let me see
>
> US States have two senators each in the congress:
>
> http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm/
>
> Choose a State...... Those states are all listed.
>
>
> >
> > While I will admit that DC is not a state,
>
> Ok - it is not a state.  That is the reason it is not a mult
> in the NAQP - and that was K9NW's question.
>
>
>
> > but Constitutionally a 'Federal
> > City' is is a separate political entity.  Personally, I can see no reason
> > why DC should not be its own mult.  But, one wants to play semantics with
> > words and definitions, then remove the Commonwealths as multipliers.
>
> I am not playing word games - as you said DC is not a state.
>
> By the current rules when DC becomes a US State it will become a mult
> in the NAQP.  I would start working on statehood.
>
>
> But if the real question is something like:
>
> "Why can't DC be made a mult for the NAQP?"
>
> Then your arrguement that it is a "separate political entity" would be
> a good place to start as to why it should be a mult.
>
> My question to everyone that wants to make DC a mult in any contest is:
>
> Why do you want DC to be a mult?
>
> --
> George Fremin III - K5TR
> geoiii at kkn.net
> http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
>
>
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