Reaction from former D.C. Democratic Party Chairman Scott Bolden and Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe on 'The Story' Former District of Columbia Democratic Party Chairman Scott Bolden debated Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe on the legitimacy, constitutionality and partisan politics behind Democrats' new bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state. Boothe and Bolden joined "The Story" Monday, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hailed Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's, D-D.C., legislation to make the District of Columbia into the state of "Washington, Douglass Commonwealth." The new name would be a nod to Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a Republican whom then-President Rutherford Birchard Hayes named the first Black U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia in 1877.