{"id":1515199,"date":"2022-06-14T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515199"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:20:33","slug":"muriel-bowser-is-flying-altered-american-flags-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/muriel-bowser-is-flying-altered-american-flags-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Muriel Bowser Is Flying Altered American Flags In DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmuriel-bowser-is-flying-altered-american-flags-in-dc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered Monday that altered American flags be flown along Pennsylvania Avenue in protest of lack of Congressional representation.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser made the announcement ahead of Tuesday, which marks the 106th Flag Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, ahead of Flag Day, I directed our team to hang 51-star flags along Pennsylvania Avenue as a reminder to Congress and the nation that the 700,000 tax-paying American citizens living in Washington, DC demand to be recognized,\u201d Bowser said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/mayor.dc.gov\/release\/ahead-flag-day-mayor-bowser-directs-51-star-flags-displayed-along-pennsylvania-avenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> Monday. \u201cOn Flag Day, we celebrate American ideals, American history, and American liberty. But the very foundation of those ideals, and the basis for our liberty, is representation. DC\u2019s disenfranchisement is a stain on American democracy \u2014 a 220-year-old wrong that demands to be righted.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlagDay?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FlagDay<\/a>, 51-star flags along Pennsylvania Ave will serve as a reminder to Congress and the nation that the 700,000 tax-paying American citizens living in DC demand to be recognized.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate must do the right thing, embrace representation &#038; send <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCStatehood?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DCStatehood<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorBowser\/status\/1536445650430312452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are at an inflection point for American democracy, and it is within the Senate\u2019s power to do the right thing, embrace representation, and move DC statehood forward to the President\u2019s desk,\u201d Bowser continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/20\/biden-dc-statehood-washington-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Admin Announces \u2018Strong Support\u2019 For DC Statehood Bill, Says 51st State \u2018Long Overdue\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flag has 50 stars to represent each state. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/rep-clyde-dc-never-intended-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Statehood<\/a> for the District of Columbia has been a source of contention among lawmakers as D.C. argues its residents deserve representation. Democrats passed the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/22\/house-passes-washington-dc-statehood-bill-make-dc-51st-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DC Admission Act<\/a>\u201d in April that would allow D.C. to become the 51st state. Republicans, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/30\/dc-statehoood-constitutional-amendment-congress-pass-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue<\/a> that because D.C., is established as per Article 1, Sec. 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution, any changes to the district\u2019s status must be made in the form of a Constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans also argue that by granting D.C. statehood, Democrats would add two Democratic Senators to Congress along with one representative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 D.C. statehood scheme is about two things: consolidating power and enacting radical policies,\u201d House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1385232124874272769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in April 2021. \u201cThe American people see right through this blatant power grab.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered Monday that altered American flags be flown along Pennsylvania Avenue in protest of lack of Congressional representation.Bowser made the announcement ahead of Tuesday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}