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Washington, DC could finally get a taste of statehood next month, as activists promote a pilot program that would allow residents to exchange DC-specific perqs with other states for short-term congressional representation.
Informally dubbed the “Statehood swap”, the pilot would establish a market-based platform in which states can exchange access to their voting members of congress for a given duration in exchange for “congressional credits”. DC can then purchase those credits in exchange for a type of influence no other jurisdiction can claim but apparently have long coveted: access to US Capitol-adjacent yard signs and parking spots.
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Weeks After Luke Letlow s Death, His Wife Julia Letlow Is the Frontrunner to Replace Him in Congress
On 2/9/21 at 6:00 AM EST
Julia Letlow has never run for political office, but she intimately knows what it s like to be on a successful Congressional campaign. She s now a frontrunner in the race to fill the seat that her husband, Luke Letlow, never got to occupy after his successful election last fall.
Luke died of complications from COVID-19 just five days before he was to be sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol for Lousiana s 5th District. You become a team, and you start to share the same dreams and vision and mission in life our shared vision was to help make this place that we call home better for our children and for future generations, Julia Letlow, 41, told
Julia Letlow said she would run to represent Louisiana’s Fifth Congressional District.Credit.Julia Letlow for Congress
Jan. 14, 2021
Julia Letlow, the wife of Representative-elect Luke Letlow, a Louisiana Republican who died of complications from Covid-19 days before he was to be sworn in, will seek the open seat in an upcoming special election.
Ms. Letlow will run as a Republican to represent Louisiana’s Fifth District, which covers the conservative northeastern part of the state. Her husband died on Dec. 29 at the age of 41 after suffering from a “cardiac condition” while hospitalized with the virus. His death came just weeks after he won the seat vacated by his former boss, Representative Ralph Abraham.