On August 6, 2010, the Washington Post published D.C. journalist Mark Plotkin's letter to the editor on "A strategy for statehood."

On September 1, 2010, the 31st national convention of the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) , which was meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, approved a resolution proposed by the NARFE's District of Columbia Federation to add D.C. statehood to NARFE's national legislative agenda.

In the June 30, 2010 editorial, the editors of the Current Newspapers in Washington, D.C. as District residents' hope for an end to their disenfranchisement has faded, "thanks to a lack of will and a surplus of partisan politics," the "time may be right ... to step back and look at the options" - voting rights or statehood.