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Republicans are making opposition to District self-determination part of their national platform, to the surprise of no one.

As the Republican National Convention delegates continue to draft their set of principles, which at this point includes declaring pornography a public health crisis and a stance against electromagnetic pulse weapons, D.C. warrants a shout out.

From The Washington Post:

The draft rejects calls for statehood and faults District officials for “attempting to seize from the Congress” budget authority, adding that the move “mirrors the unacceptable spike in violent crime and murders currently afflicting the city.” And the document faults city officials for a “campaign of massive resistance by denying virtually all applications for gun ownership.” The document calls on a Republican Congress and Republican president to “enact legislation allowing law-abiding Washingtonians to own and carry firearms.”

Already, some House Republicans have attempted to prevent D.C. from spending its funds to enforce laws and prevent enforcement of gun-free zones through riders in an appropriations bill.

Compare this to the draft of the Democratic national platform, which includes support for statehood “so that its citizens have full and equal congressional rights and the right to have the laws and budget of their local government respected without Congressional interference.” Both presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton and her main primary opponent Bernie Sanders have pledged to work to make D.C. the 51st state.

While Republican opposition to statehood is in line with GOP actions on Capitol Hill, the party lines haven’t always been so clear. The 1976 Republican Party platform supports “giving the District of Columbia voting representation in the United States Senate and House of Representatives and full home rule over those matters that are purely local.” But the 2012 platform opposes statehood and applauds GOPers for “exposing and combating the chronic corruption among the city’s top Democratic officials.”

Ohio Governor John Kasich said that he opposed statehood because “that’s just more votes in the Democratic Party.” Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump doesn’t seem as opposed to statehood as prominent Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan, but reports indicate that he’s largely staying away from the platform drafting process.

One delegate from D.C., Rachel Hoff, declared that she was the first openly gay member of the RNC drafting committee. She proposed to include support of same sex marriage in the platform, a proposal that other delegates defeated.

Work on the party platform is expected to wrap today, and delegates at next week’s convention will vote on whether to ratify it on the floor.