Republicans Said D.C. Can’t Be A State Because It’s Politically Corrupt, So This Democrat Made a Bulleted List of Corruption In Those Republicans’ States

WASHINGTON — As the issue of D.C. statehood was debated on the floor for the first time in decades, House Republicans — and especially those from the Committee on Oversight and Reform — made the case that the District just isn’t ready for representation.

Their proof?

Jack Evans.

Over the last several weeks, Republicans from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform filed various letters urging an expansion to the investigation of the disgraced Democrat councilmember, generating a storm of publicity around the laundry-list of ethics violations the former WMATA Board Chairman is facing.

The most recent of these letters called for Reps. Cummings and Meadows to invite Evans to testify at yesterday’s D.C. statehood hearing, arguing that:

“Under H.R. 51, the proposed legislation to provide a pathway for DC to become a state, DC’s current legislative officials would be elevated to corresponding positions in a state government. In other words, H.R. 51, if signed into law, would elevate Evans to the position of state legislator. In light of allegations that Evans exploited his official position…