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- news@lemmy.world
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- news@lemmy.world
The National Governors Association (NGA) has canceled its annual White House meeting after President Trump only invited Republican governors to the gathering.
The yearly meeting is traditionally bipartisan and offers a chance for state leaders to convene with one another and the president.
“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt ® wrote in a Monday letter announcing plans to forgo the meeting, according to The Associated Press.
Stitt said the Trump administration’s decision to exclude Democratic governors would not divide the association.
American Samoa doesn’t want to become a state because parts of the constitutions equality laws would erase part of their culture.
Hot take: If your culture is grounded in inequality then it’s not worth preserving.
Yeah that’s most peoples take, I don’t necessarily agree, but that’s just the reason. There was a big push at one point for statehood that mostly came from people stateside that used to live in American Samoa but it never got broad support by the people who live there.
A lot of it has to do with giving American foreigners rights and not wanting the island to be industrialized and pushed towards more tourism and M/Billionaires 10th vacation home.