In a June 20, 2010 editorial, the Washington Post editorial board pushes for a dead end - the "D.C. Voting Rights Act" and disses District residents' desire to regain their full democratic rights by having the commercial and residential areas of the District admitted to the union as the 51st state.  Statehood is the only way to regain our rights that Congress stole from us over two centuries ago that the voters of D.C. have ever approved.

Statehood activists Charles Cassell, Sen. Michael D. Brown, Elinor Hart, Ann Loikow and Anne Roberts respond to the Post. It is noteworthy that the Ward Three Democratic Committee, which strongly endorsed statehood last year, overwhelming voted on June 17, 2010 to support D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's major rival in the Democratic primary, Douglas Sloan, a strong supporter of statehood.

In their April 18, 2010 editorial, the Washington Post Editorial Board came out reluctantly against the current D.C. Voting Rights Bill  finding that "sometimes compromise demands too high a price. This is such a time."  On April 22, 2010, after the House leadership pulled the bill, the Washington Post Editorial Board urged the Democrats in Congress and the White House to not be "complicit in letting the gun lobby set the agenda" and seek fair treatment of the city. For the text of both editorials, read more.