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Siskiyou County votes to pursue secession from California
LA Times ^ | 9/4/13 | Kate Mather

Posted on 09/04/2013 4:51:25 PM PDT by Baynative

Fed up by Sacramento's regulations and Southern California's political sway, residents in one rural Northern California county are taking steps to leave the state.

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted, 4-1, on Tuesday to pursue seceding from California, the Redding Record Searchlight reported. Proponents say Siskiyou should form a new state -- called Jefferson -- with other counties in Northern California and Southern Oregon they believe share similar interests.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: california; duplicate; seceed; siskiyou

"Many proposed laws are unconstitutional and deny us our God-given rights," said Happy Camp resident Gabe Garrison. "We need our own state so we can make laws that fit our way of life."

"The state of Jefferson is the place I want to raise my son," Kayla Brown said.

Resident complaints include a lack of representation in Sacramento and insufficient attention to major issues for the county, such as water rights and a rural fire prevention fee, the Searchlight reported.

1 posted on 09/04/2013 4:51:25 PM PDT by Baynative
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To: Baynative

This could tempt me to move back to California and be closer to my grand kids. Of course, that is if Siskiyou isn’t part of California anymore.


2 posted on 09/04/2013 4:53:25 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: Baynative

If at first you don’t secede, try again.


3 posted on 09/04/2013 4:54:59 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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Quit sending sales tax proceeds to Sacramento


4 posted on 09/04/2013 4:57:54 PM PDT by ptsal (Repubicans swallowing more kool-aide from Rove & Kristol)
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To: TurboZamboni

Be sure to include Coos and Curry (the two most southern Oregon coastal counties). (I was raised in Coos County).


5 posted on 09/04/2013 4:59:23 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Baynative

Self-determination is the right of every American. We fought the Revolution for EXACTLY THIS.


6 posted on 09/04/2013 4:59:46 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell)
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If they do I would love to move up there and get away from the Democrat’s Rat Hole State they created. My fear is that liberals will try to move in and take over. They are like Rats, they dump their turd and once they screwed that up they move on to another place.

I would like to see a Conservative only town =)


7 posted on 09/04/2013 5:02:13 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Baynative
There was a proposal on this back in the 70s. Upper Michigan tried to become their own state too (Superior).

I think our states are too big. There are a lot of areas in the U.S. that can easily become its own state. Up state NY is another example.

8 posted on 09/04/2013 5:02:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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As a land owner of Tehama County [just south of Siskiyou] ... count me in.


9 posted on 09/04/2013 5:04:51 PM PDT by alphadog (2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
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To: Baynative
I believe in self-determination and wish well the citizens of Siskiyou County and all the secessionist minded citizens across the country.

The authoritarian Bolsheviks that run Sacramento and Washington D.C., a.k.a Mordor on the Potomac, however, would gladly use the military to kill every last secessionist in this land before Jefferson State or any new State became a reality. It will finally mean all the Makers can get a legal divorce from the Takers and that is RASISM!

Succession = RACISM! That is heresy, the worst sin, the lowest crime punishable by death.

10 posted on 09/04/2013 5:05:37 PM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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