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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?
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday November 23 2016, @09:26PM
You raise good points.
I think this is cool, and I certainly think anyone in California who wants to secede should be permitted to, and looking at the new President, I can't blame them. (Of course, I feel the same way looking at the last several Presidents, too.)
Of course, I think anyone in California who doesn't want to secede should be permitted to secede from California and remain in the USA if they choose. That is what freedom is all about.
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:12PM
Let them go, let them destroy all their guns, then we can just re-conquer them to be a non-voting protectorate.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:37PM
Never read Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @05:30PM
we'd have to throw a few million in floating reeducation camps and give them a push out to sea.