Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot (YES!)

LA Times ^ | 6/12/18 | JOHN MYERS

[Libloather]

Smells like winning to me.

[BenLurkin]

No.

The three state solution is BAD

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

Oh man this would be an absolute dream!!!

[DIRTYSECRET]

AS long as one is Jefferson.

[A_perfect_lady]

I’d like it. We need to split up the electoral load and let conservatives chip off a few votes.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I saw this movie. It was called Demolition Man.

[BenLurkin]

THIS is the split you want...

[unixfox]

6 senators from California?

NO THANKS!

[chief lee runamok]

Southern Oregon would join northern California as a single state.

[BenLurkin]

But you would get two leftist states in return.

[Rurudyne]

Yes. They are drawing the boundaries to get 2 blue states and as purple a third as they may. They are really trying to create three more Illinois if they can, where the densely populated areas totally overwhelm the rural.

Congress should refuse.

[Churchillspirit]

The blue goes too far south. Orange County should be yellow.

[Seaplaner]

Bad idea.

This gives one radical leftist state THREE TIMES the congressional representation.

And, they have plenty of illegal voters to flood each third.

[Disambiguator]

The East-West split makes more sense from a political standpoint. The coastal regions (and the SacraMetro Area) contain the insanity.

[BenLurkin]

It is . For some reason the map put Los Angeles in Oxnard.

[forgotten man]

The fact that Vermont, a small county of New York, was granted statehood has always pi**ed me off. Vermont was not on of the original 13 colonies. If Vermont gets two senators like Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders why can’t the conservative parts of California have the chance to elect a non marxist.

[mrsmith]

I notice competent states, like Texas, aren’t desperates enough to offer such harebrained schemes.

[Rusty0604]

Six senators instead of two.

[KC_Lion]

[DoughtyOne]

I won’t be voting for that nonsense.

The worst of the new three states would wind up holding all the strategic assets of the former state in their grubby little fingers.