Advocates of splitting California into six states gathering signatures

latimes.com ^ | 6/21/2014 | Harriet Ryan

[rktman]

Good day, future citizen of West California!

You may find yourself greeted thusly as you head into a supermarket or drugstore in Los Angeles on Saturday morning.

Advocates for Six Californias, a plan to split the Golden State into a half dozen separate states, are holding a petition drive this weekend to get their plan on the ballot in 2016.

[rktman]

My vote is for Nevada to annex all the California counties that border Nevada.

[Ancient Man]

Good idea, as long as each state’s name ends with -istan.

[DJ Taylor]

And that would put twelve more Democrat Senators in the U.S. Senate instead of just two. Nice try, Harry.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Oq good note, those 50 something electoral votes California gets will need to be split up. Only thing that changes is 10 additional senators.

[Uncle Chip]

waste of time —

They can’t become a state after becoming a state without first withdrawing from statehood which was decided by a civil war 150 yrs ago.

Anyway — can you imagine 12 senators from California???

[Neoliberalnot]

A maggot wearing a black robe sitting on a high bench will declare it unconstitutional. Make no mistake, the sniveling lawyers in power will never let this happen.

[cloudmountain]

Is THIS resurfacing? I guess it's the LAW of FR to dig up the "tired old mantras" every once in a while.

Hmmm, think of the mess we'd have putting 55 stars or so on OLD GLORY.

[IMR 4350]

Recall when Obama made his comment about having been in 57 states with one to go not, including Hawaii and Alaska, or 60 states total.

I suspected then he didn’t just “misspeak” but was actually letting his inner circle of hard core followers know there was a plan to get another 20, mostly democrat, senators.

[rktman]

Uh, I thought there were 57 already. :>}

[cloudmountain]

And that would put twelve more Democrat Senators in the U.S. Senate instead of just two. Nice try, Harry.

Reid is 74 years (December 2, 1939) old. Let's hope his arthritis, lumbago, Alzheimer's, fading hearing, bad hips and gastroenteritis get him OUTTA there A.S.A.P.

Sigh, he would probably be replaced by another liberal within SECONDS.

[Grampa Dave]

“And that would put twelve more Democrat Senators in the U.S. Senate instead of just two. Nice try, Harry.”

BS! There are several conservative areas in California, and the citizens in those areas are tired of being second class citizens and primary tax payers for the left wing scum bags.*

Let the Liberals keep the Gay Frisco area, Sac and LA, and let the rest of us have a state we can trust.

If this is done, after a few years, many of the counties around the new conservative states would be begging to get in. Keep them out until they get rid of their local libs in government.

*PS: The owner and manager of this site, Jim Robinson lives in a very conservative area.

[Grampa Dave]

“And that would put twelve more Democrat Senators in the U.S. Senate instead of just two. Nice try, Harry.”

BS! There are several conservative areas in California, and the citizens in those areas are tired of being second class citizens and primary tax payers for the left wing scum bags.*

Let the Liberals keep the Gay Frisco area, Sac and LA, and let the rest of us have a state we can trust.

If this is done, after a few years, many of the counties around the new conservative states would be begging to get in. Keep them out until they get rid of their local libs in government.

*PS: The owner and manager of this site, Jim Robinson lives in a very conservative area.

[Ben Ficklin]

750,000 people in Alaska have 2 senators while 38 million people in CA have 2 senators.

Even if they split and add the additional senators to the resulting states, Alaskans will still be better represented.

[Uncle Chip]

But California has 53 members in the House slopping down free meals and Alaska only 1 — so that more than evens it out.

[martin_fierro]

[SamAdams76]

California should be just the beginning. Due to the massive population growth over the past 100 years, it's time to do some subdivision so that we don't have a congressman representing 700,000 people. That's just nuts.

Maybe we should have 100 states instead of 50.

[luvbach1]

Let the Liberals keep the Gay Frisco area, Sac and LA,...

Glad you excluded San Diego, which used to be conservative, and still is more so than the aforementioned. But it's not going to happen.

[RIghtwardHo]

Way to drive LibTards to the polls this Nov. Not only does this stand ZERO chance of passing and less of a chance at being approved, but also we have a Lib electorate here that is pretty complacent. They have reason to be in that the GOP has almost no power here. But we actually do have a couple swing districts that can make a difference. So what another :let’s just throw it at the wall and see if it sticks” conservative nitwit does is make SURE we drive LibTards to the polls.

Don Quixote had more sense.

[RIghtwardHo]

Harry? This is a CONSERVATIVE doing this.

Some need to pay more attention and dig beyond the headlines. We have enemies, and idiots, all over.

[Carry_Okie]

And that would put twelve more Democrat Senators in the U.S. Senate instead of just two. Nice try, Harry.

No. There would be at least four true conservatives, probably a couple of RINOS and the rest would be from the Slave Party.