Posted on 07/02/2016 3:52:03 PM PDT by RC one
Pro-independence Texans weren’t the only ones energized by the vote by Brexit vote.
The California secession movement has been riding a wave of interest since Thursday’s vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. The campaign has already gained a Brexit-inspired nickname: Calexit
“We have a lot of people sending us messages and a lot of people want to find our online digital version of our independence referendum,” said Louis Marinelli, who heads the Yes California Independence Campaign. “We have a lot of people who have joined our Facebook page, a lot of people who are talking about this issue on Twitter. The #Calexit hashtag for example has begun organically. There’s another one called #Caleavefornia.”
Yes California, which formed in August after the shuttering of Sovereign California, has been gathering support for an initiative aimed at November 2020 that would begin the process of severing California from the union.
What makes the Brexit vote so important is that it shows secession isn’t just a relic of the 19th century, said Mr. Marinelli.
“This is an example of an independence movement occurring in the Western world, a modern-day, 21st century [case] of a political entity seceding from a political union,” he said. “And so now Californians who hear the word ‘secession,’ they don’t have to think of the Civil
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Yea, send Gov. moonbeam and all the rest out to sea.
No. We lost 500000 Americans over this question. California needs to respect the Constitution and the freedoms that come with it. Just as soon as the federal government does the same.
Until it happens at the federal level states will drift away from what is right and Constitutional.
But there will be a return to sanity that does not involve secession. There must be.
Utter nonsense
This has been tried before. The result was not good
Palousy is from Maryland. Send her back to Baltimore
with her part of the National debt. And, send Boxer
back to NY, Maxine Waters back to Missouri, Willie
Brown back to Texas. In fact, send all the libtards
back to where they came from so we can have our once
reasonable state back.
To make everybody happy we’ll still form our own
country and sell you food at “fair” prices.
And California would be taken over by mexico by the end of the week if they seceded.
“That doesn’t mean that we can’t be supportive of it though, does it?”
Well, you’re right about that. I just don’t want to get my hopes up.
Bullshit.
I’m not sending them any of my money. Hopeless cause.
Disconnect the power grid from the rest of the USA and they won’t be able to leech off it any longer.
Californians just need to know that we fully support their seccession. Hawaii too.
All a new state would need is a few seaports.I think north of san Francisco ,north of san Diego and north of santa Barbara would do it. The new state would look like a backward capital E. It would have the water and the farms,the major old california cities would keep the restaurants,coffee shops,movie industry, etc. As backward E got stronger, all of the small satellite cities would join up. And poof,goodbye lunatic liberal California buffoons.Then dont accept them back.let em wither away from lack of freebies to the perennial state blood suckers.all the blood suckers would leave and then,the creepy pols who pander to them would not have any constituents.
He’s east of the fault, which isn’t dropping anything into the ocean. Maybe move it up near Alaska though, over the next 20 or so million years...
Mexico and what army?
Do a price check on health coverage for age 65 and over without Medicare. It’s extremely expensive.
“From San Francisco to San Diego and 60 miles inland would be all that’s left.”
That is exactly the way it should split. Check out voting by county. The coast rules all the rest of the Californians who are true Americans. 60 miles inland sounds just about right
Nor-cal red turf. You darn right!
And may a gigantic flood wash the state of Ohio into
the Gulf of Mexico.
What a POS.
The political split in California is definitely more
east/west than anything. In the state Senate we have
3 senators representing 20 counties up here in NorCal.
Meanwhile, LA County alone has 11 state senators. You
can see that those of us here in Jefferson would not
necessarily be warm to adding SoCal’s Inland Empire
to our new conservative state.
I think a state of Jefferson would economically kick
the dog shit out of Coastal California in short order.
Not only would they lose jobs to nearby business
friendly Jefferson but businesses that migrated to
Texas and elsewhere would be heading back because of
the superior climate.
LOL! I see from your Home Page you run around with a chip on your shoulder the size of one or your redwoods. Get over it.
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