Posted on 08/21/2013 9:20:25 AM PDT by kevcol
Voters in Weld County will vote on whether to secede from Colorado after commissioners this week unanimously agreed to put the question on November’s ballot.
Weld County, the largest of several that have been seriously discussing breaking away to form their own state, joins three other counties in putting the question to its citizens. Several others are also considering referring the measure to voters or waiting to see if citizen initiatives show support for the idea.
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County leaders have also been alarmed at attempts to strengthen regulations on oil and gas developers, which are heavily invested in rural counties. And they’ve also been riled by tough new gun laws that limit the size of ammunition magazines and require universal background checks for all firearms transfers.
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The Second American Civil War inches forward.
As a Coloradan, I am of the opinion that it is more likely to get the voters to change the State Constitution to elect one State Senator per county.
I would like to do this in Western New York
"The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."""They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman. Decent men who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice."
"Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say."
Rorschach – from The Watchmen
Both the legislature of Colorado and the US Congress have a say in this matter:
“New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.” - US Constituion, Article IV, Section 3
And West Pennsylvania and East Washington and East Oregon and South Illinois and any other state that is disproportionally represented by big city liberals.
County leaders have also been alarmed at attempts to strengthen regulations on oil and gas developers, which are heavily invested in rural counties. And they’ve also been riled by tough new gun laws that limit the size of ammunition magazines and require universal background checks for all firearms transfers.
Speaking strictly as a Coloradan: all the above is true, but it's only part of the whole story. As in more than just one or two other states, the Denver metropolitan area has become the tail that wags the dog—and Denver is an arrogant, greedy bastion of leftist extremism. It wants to be the San Francisco of the Rocky Mountains. It wants to treat the rest of Colorado approximately the same way Washington, D.C. treats the rest of America. It believes it's smarter and more advanced than us commoners, and is therefore entitled to impose its statist will on us. The new so-called "gun control" laws are evil, all right, but they're actually a mere symptom of the greater, more destructive problem.
Oh, by the way, people all over Colorado would very much like to join the break-away counties. Given a free choice—that's asking a lot, I admit—all or nearly all of Colorado would secede from Denver.
Yep. Very, very many in NY state disagree passionately with the city dwellers.
All the rats will flood into the new state anyway and ruin it. Then the sane people will need to run back to Colorado.
But leave out the cities of buffalo ithaca Binghamton Syracuse Rochester
They are a problem too
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So there will be a fight between Colorado and Congress, and Obama has to keep his mouth shut on it. Let’s see it happen and not give up before the fight starts.
“As a Coloradan, I am of the opinion that it is more likely to get the voters to change the State Constitution to elect one State Senator per county.”
We used to have that here in California. Then the SCOTUS “declared” despite the way the Constitution set up the US Senate, that the “one man, one vote” bit meant that the CA Senate had to be elected to that requirement. Now we have essentially two Assemblies, one with twice the members as the other. Ergo, Los Angeles (our stinking $hit hole to the south) immediately controlled the state. So good luck changing the Co constitution, because the crap posing as the SCOTUS will likely squelch your effort. The cecession to form a separate state is a real solution. There needs to be more of it. Here in CA we conservatives control a huge majority of the land area of the state, including most of the water. We need to cecede and “sell” water to Mexico City North (aka Los Angeles).
The gun-grabbers and those wanting to limit speech criticizing the government say the same thing.
I am thinking everything from Corning on up, and to the west
(yes that includes Roch and Buff but those populations are dying out - less than 1million in buffalo these days
Ithaca? Just wall that off completely and let them survive on unicorn farts.
IMO, this is a scenario that will grow as more and more Americans have reached the end of their patience with Liberal insanity, ya think?
you know, as difficult as this process would be, I could see this being Hugh and series!
Cut each state in half (the conservative halves), we would immediately have 100 new CONSERVATIVE senators
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