Word: spearman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some District leaders don't fully agree. "There is no evidence that Congress will grant D.C. statehood," Eldridge Spearman, press aide to Rep. William E. Fauntroy (D-D.C.), a nonvoting delegate who helped author the Voting Rights Amendment, contends. "In fact, all indications are that Congress would reject it. Congress would not relinquish the authority it has had over D.C.," he adds...
...League, explains. "In addition, it is very expensive." The initiative calls for the election of two senators and one representative who will lobby for statehood. Although they are not official members of Congress, D.C. must pay their salaries as well as fund two commissions that the initiative establishes. Spearman shares Dixon's financial concern, saying, "proponents of the initiative estimate that the cost will be $750,000. We think it will be closer to $3 million annually...
...What would be left as a state wouldn't be viable," Spearman says. "This is the heart of D.C. and its economic viability. D.C. has no other industry and would not be able to survive without the federal enclave," he adds. Spearman also notes that as a state, D.C. would lose its "federal payment," support funds it alone receives from Congress...
...need a much more sophisticated plan than we have now," Spearman says. "As it is, it is as if we are behind in a football game and we want to throw the 'bomb' to catch up. Unfortunately, we don't have the wide receivers to catch that 'bomb.' Senate representation is a prerequisite to lobbying for statehood...