Posted on 02/05/2014 4:17:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Splitting California into six states would be complicated and time-consuming but not impossible, according to a state analysis.
Tim Draper, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist behind the proposal, said he was encouraged by the California legislative analyst’s report, declaring that dividing the nation’s largest state is “clearly legal and doable.”
“It is obvious that we need a breath of fresh air in California government, and creating six new states allows the refresh we need,” Mr. Draper said in an email after the study was made public over the weekend. “California, as it is, is ungovernable. We need our state governments to be local to us.”
The legislative analyst’s report on the proposed Six Californias amendment shows two of the states becoming richer and four becoming poorer. The smallest and poorest would be the northernmost state of Jefferson.
That doesn’t bother Mark Baird, a spokesman for the Jefferson Declaration Committee, who said the short-term economic hit would be far preferable to the state’s slide into a morass of ever-greater debt, taxes and regulation....
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No problem, we can delete NH and add DE.
Sorry but with Amnesty looming in the future there will be no part of California leaning right.
And even in your best picture the new plan would still give California a net of 4 Senate seats.
That’s an even bigger No Thanks.
Most of the counties in NorCal above Sacramento are strongly conservative. Mendocino and Humboldt counties are pretty lib, but can be overcome. Depending on the demarcations, the Senate division could be a 6-6 split, vs. the guaranteed lock for the dems. Also, it breaks apart that 55-EV guarantee the dems get every President election as well. Splitting that mess up out there would be a great idea.
Cali Like the USA Cannot afford the Government it has now!
So you want to make it bigger? One way to reduce unemployment and raise taxes fo sho!
Only need one more to get Obammy’s 57 states then.
Only need one more to get Obammy’s 57 states then.
Since this is clearly a power grab on the part of the Democrats, how about proposing an alternative?
Home rule for parts of California. This would just require their state legislature to set up a power-sharing agreement so that for most things, parts of the state would be unto themselves; and each part would have a veto over legislation that affected the entire state.
Broad parts of existing state law that overlapped into regional authority could be abrogated. For example, the endless, nit-picking environmental rules. If there was no “overlap”, than an autonomous region could ignore them.
Of course, this would be like pounding nails through the feet of the Democrats, who are terrified of the prospect of losing nit-picking control over the lives of other people.
While we are at it could we split up TX (the real largest state) into 6 states?
Or conservatives could move out and come to Texas and help us fight the blue state clowns and the influx of illegals.
The northern states should get along fine....as long as they control the water supply for the south.
No, in the annexation treaty, Texas has the right already to be divided into five states, should it desire.
West Texas, where the farmers, ranchers and oil leases are, would love to ditch the contaminated politics of Austin, Houston and San Antonio.
But splitting the Bay Area into two states just spreads the madness. That makes North California, Silicon Valley, and West California solidly blue. South California has a strong illegal immigrant contingent and would no doubt “pioneer” amnesty. Jefferson might be OK, but you have the granola-crunchers in Redding and Crescent City to worry about.
I can’t imagine CA being much better off going this way, but I could be wrong.
“Only need one more to get Obammy’s 57 states then.”
50 + 5 = 55.
Two more.
LOL! Excellent way to turn lemon into lemonade thinking.
12 new California Senators? No thanks.
I think it could start a trend. We could divide Idaho into 30 different states. ABRA CADABRA. 60 new conservative senators!
This would add 10 more US Senator’s to the mix, most of these 10 would be in strongly democrat states, I’d say two to the ten new senators would be conservative the other 8 socialist.
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