Virginia may have its Horse Enthusiast and Wildlife Mallard license plates, but if one local D.C. voting rights activist has his way, the District might get some special plates of our own.

Shadow Representative Mike Panetta has proposed that D.C. do away with the “Taxation Without Representation” plate, and instead go for one boldly declaring us to be the 51st state. “Here in the District we have our own ‘Taxation Without Representation’ plates, but they are about 10 years old at at this point, and I think they’ve lost their effectiveness. More importantly, they are out of line with what we really deserve – full statehood,” Panetta wrote on his blog.

The current plates were rolled out in late 2000 by Mayor Anthony Williams. By 2006, more than a million of them had been distributed. President Bill Clinton even had them put on his presidential limousine, but they were then removed by President George W. Bush and have remained off the First Car while President Barack Obama has been in office.