At a quick press conference yesterday before the D.C. Council’s first legislative session of 2012, Mayor Vince Gray and most of the D.C. Council touted their upcoming trip to New Hampshire, where they will lobby the state legislature there to endorse District statehood.

Live free — and show solidarity — or die: New Hampshire State Representative Cindy Rosenwald has filed a bill which would “formally declare the New Hampshire House of Representatives’ support for full representative democracy for citizens of the District of Columbia.”