> the only state where the majority of the residents work for the federal government... The last one alone is pretty scary and a bit of a conflict of interest.
You can quite literally say this about any group of people. I don't like landlords, I find it scary that landlords can vote and contribute to political campaigns. Imagine the awful and self-serving things that landlords would do if they ever turned the powers of our political machine to their own ends! I don't like resource industries, I find it scary that Texas and North Dakota get the vote. I don't like techies, California should lose a few seats in Congress, etc, etc, etc.
Oh, and your numbers aren't even right, there are 140,000 federal government employees in DC, and many of them commute in. That's not 'the majority' of the residents by any stretch of the imagination.
You can quite literally say this about any group of people. I don't like landlords, I find it scary that landlords can vote and contribute to political campaigns. Imagine the awful and self-serving things that landlords would do if they ever turned the powers of our political machine to their own ends! I don't like resource industries, I find it scary that Texas and North Dakota get the vote. I don't like techies, California should lose a few seats in Congress, etc, etc, etc.
Oh, and your numbers aren't even right, there are 140,000 federal government employees in DC, and many of them commute in. That's not 'the majority' of the residents by any stretch of the imagination.