A flag with 51 stars (Courtesy DC.gov)
(FOX NEWS) -- Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday ordered 51-star American flags to be displayed along Pennsylvania Avenue ahead of Flag Day, June 14.
The mayor said she directed her team to hang the 51-star flags "as a reminder to Congress and the nation that the 700,000 tax-paying American citizens living in Washington, D.C. demand to be recognized.
This #FlagDay, 51-star flags along Pennsylvania Ave will serve as a reminder to Congress and the nation that the 700,000 tax-paying American citizens living in DC demand to be recognized.
The Senate must do the right thing, embrace representation & send #DCStatehood to @POTUS.
— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) June 13, 2022
"On Flag Day, we celebrate American ideals, American history, and American liberty. But the very foundation of those ideals, and the basis for our liberty, is representation," Mayor Bowser said in a statement. "DC’s disenfranchisement is a stain on American democracy – a 220-year-old wrong that demands to be righted."
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