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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can-go-your-own-way-♩♫♩♫ dept.

Supporters of a plan for California to secede from the union took their first formal step Monday morning, submitting a proposed ballot measure to the state attorney general's office in the hopes of a statewide vote as soon as 2018.

Marcus Ruiz Evans, the vice president and co-founder of Yes California, said his group had been planning to wait for a later election, but the presidential election of Donald Trump sped up the timeline.

"We're doing it now because of all of the overwhelming attention," Evans said.

The Yes California group has been around for more than two years, Evans said. It is based around California taxpayers paying more money to the federal government than the state receives in spending, that Californians are culturally different from the rest of the country, and that national media and organizations routinely criticize Californians for being out of step with the rest of the U.S. 

Could California go it alone?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:25PM (#432031)

    Between New California and Old USA? Shouldn't there be some sort of security, so we don't have massive influxes of immigrants, drug dealers and rapists from one side to the other?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:47PM (#432045)

    Build a wall!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @08:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @08:52PM (#432095)

      Who's going to pay?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:08PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:08PM (#432112)

        The Californians! Duh!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:20PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:20PM (#432122)

          I think the state of Texas should pay, that will make the financing a lot easier.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:42PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:42PM (#432141)

            Texas would just open a theme park along the border, offering 10 shots for $5 to anything trying to escape.

        • (Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:29PM

          by Arik (4543) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:29PM (#432175) Journal
          Except they'll be bankrupt within days of secession, they won't even be able to buy water, let alone build a wall.
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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:42PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:42PM (#432183)

            I see satire just does not play here.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:33PM (#432132)

        Who's going to pay?

        By the logic of your president-elect, the people you want to keep out are responsible for paying for the wall. So to answer your question, the US government is responsible for paying for a wall to keep the unwashed masses out of California.