President Barack Obama?s official armored limo will bear license plates with the pro-D.C. statehood slogan ?taxation without representation? starting this weekend, the dawn of his second term in the White House, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
"President Obama has lived in the District now for four years and has seen first-hand how patently unfair it is for working families in D.C. to work hard, raise children and pay taxes, without having a vote in Congress,? Keith Maley said in a statement.
?Attaching these plates to the presidential vehicles demonstrates the President's commitment to the principle of full representation for the people of the District of Columbia and his willingness to fight for voting rights, Home Rule and budget autonomy for the District," Maley said.
So does Obama, who in the past has called for D.C. to get full voting representation in Congress, favor full statehood for the District of Columbia? Another official referred Yahoo News back to the statement, suggesting that the president is still stopping short of that. Either way, the president will have come out in favor of gay marriage before coming out in favor of D.C. statehood.
Activists who want to change Obama's take on the capital's status might want to reach out to Vice President Joe Biden, who, er, helped Obama along on the gay marriage issue.
The phrase, taken from the longer Revolutionary War slogan ?taxation without representation is tyranny,? is standard-issue on Washington, D.C., license plates. But the presidential fleet has a bit of a rocky history on the issue.
President Bill Clinton?s limo had the plates just before leaving office. President George W. Bush had them removed shortly after taking office.
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